Origin: Tilburg, Netherlands  
Genres: Death Metal, Progressive Metal
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Last update/review: February 28, 2024

Textures

Arguably one of the Netherlands' best extreme metal bands, Textures formed around 2001, the members coming together from various Dutch bands to form a new group initially in the progressive metal mold. Eventually, though, the band turned to harder, more extreme forms of metal, but still with the prog qualities of experimentalism and tight musicianship. By 2002 a stable lineup emerged and in 2004 their debut album, Polars, was released. Meshuggah was clearly the prime influence, with choppy, off-beat staccato riffing, odd time signatures, and Jens Kidman-inspired vocals the dominant features, yet here (as with their successive albums) they weren't afraid to branch out in other directions, befitting their extreme progressive metal ethos. They recorded five albums in 15 years, with a sixth in the works (Genotype, intended to be the second half of 2016's Phenotype), but they instead decided to break up in mid-2017. They announced a reformation in early 2024.

Current Members

Daniel de Jongh

vocals

Bart Hennephof

guitars

Joe Tal

guitars

Remko Tielemans

bass

Uri Dijk

keyboards

Stef Broks

drums (ex-Exivious)

Former Members/Guests

Pieter Verpaalen

vocals

Eric Kalsbeek

vocals

Jochem Jacobs

guitars/vocals

Dennis Aarts

bass

Richard Rietdijk

keyboards



Discography


Polars  
2004 Listenable
  1. Swandive
  2. Ostensibly Impregnable
  3. Young Man
  4. Transgression
  5. The Barrier
  6. Effluent
  7. Polars
  8. Heave
  • Pieter Verpaalen
  • Bart Hennephof
  • Jochem Jacobs
  • Dennis Aarts
  • Richard Rietdijk
  • Stef Broks



Drawing Circles  
2006 Listenable
  1. Drive
  2. Regenesis
  3. Denying Gravity
  4. Illumination
  5. Stream of Consciousness
  6. Upwards
  7. Circular
  8. Millstone
  9. Touching the Absolute
  10. Surreal State of Enlightenment
  • Eric Kalsbeek
  • Bart Hennephof
  • Jochem Jacobs
  • Dennis Aarts
  • Richard Rietdijk
  • Stef Broks



Silhouettes  
2008 Listenable
  1. Old Days Born Anew
  2. The Sun's Architect
  3. Awake
  4. Laments of an Icarus
  5. One Eye for a Thousand
  6. State of Disobedience
  7. Storm Warning
  8. Messengers
  9. To Erase a Lifetime
  • Eric Kalsbeek
  • Bart Hennephof
  • Jochem Jacobs
  • Remko Tielemans
  • Stef Broks
2008 Readers' Album #96




Dualism  
2011 Nuclear Blast
  1. Arms Of The Sea
  2. Black Horses Stampede
  3. Reaching Home
  4. Sanguine Draws The Oath
  5. Consonant Hemispheres
  6. Burning The Midnight Oil
  7. Singularity
  8. Minor Earth, Major Skies
  9. Stoic Resignation
  10. Foreclosure
  11. Sketches From A Motionless Statue
  • Daniel de Jongh
  • Bart Hennephof
  • Jochem Jacobs
  • Remko Tielemans
  • Uri Dijk
  • Stef Broks



Phenotype  
2016 Nuclear Blast
  1. Oceans Collide
  2. New Horizons
  3. Shaping a Single Grain of Sand
  4. Illuminate the Trail
  5. Meander
  6. Erosion
  7. The Fourth Prime
  8. Zman
  9. Timeless
  • Daniel de Jongh
  • Bart Hennephof
  • Joe Tal
  • Remko Tielemans
  • Uri Dijk
  • Stef Broks




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