Textures
| Textures | |
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 Textures 2010 at the Rendezvous Festival in Delhi |
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| General information | |
| origin | Tilburg , Netherlands |
| Genre (s) | Progressive Metal , Technical Death Metal , Metalcore |
| founding | 2001 |
| resolution | 2017 |
| Website | www.texturesband.com |
| Founding members | |
| Dennis Aarts (until 2005) | |
| Stef Broks | |
| Rom De Leeuw (up to 200?) | |
| Bart Hennephof | |
Electric guitar |
Jochem Jacobs (until 2013) |
| Richard Rietdijk (until 2010) | |
| Last occupation | |
Drums |
Stef Broks |
singing |
Daniel de Jongh (since 2010) |
Electric guitar |
Bart Hennephof |
Electric guitar |
Joe Tal (since 2013) |
Keyboard |
Uri Dijk (since 2010) |
Electric bass |
Remko Tielemans (since 2007) |
| former members | |
singing |
Pieter Verpaalen (200? –2004) |
singing |
Eric Kalsbeek (2004-2010) |
| Live musicians | |
Electric bass |
Robin Zielhorst |
Electric bass |
Michel Quak |
Textures was a metal band from Tilburg, the Netherlands . Their style was shaped by polyrhythmics , but increasingly also by melodic elements in the course of their existence. The band itself described their style as "Polyrhythmic Metal Madness".
history
Textures was founded in 2001 in Tilburg. Their first release followed in 2003 with the self-produced album Polars , through which the label Listenable Records became aware of the band. They received the Dutch Essent Award , which is given to young musicians, and appeared in a commercial for Nokia .
After Eric Kalsbeek had replaced the singer Pieter Verpaalen, Textures recorded their second work Drawing Circles in 2006 . The following year, bassist Remko Tielemans joined the band for Dennis Aarts, who dropped out due to illness. Textures hit the Dutch sales charts for the first time in 2008 with Silhouettes . The Dutch broadcaster VPRO included their title Awake in their compilation VPRO Song of the Year 2008 .
At the beginning of 2010 singer Eric Kalsbeek left the band for personal reasons, in March Daniel de Jongh was signed as a replacement. In the same year keyboardist Richard Rietdijk left the band, he was replaced by Uri Dijk. In 2011 the fourth studio album Dualism was released on the Nuclear Blast label .
In 2016 Textures released the album Phenotype . The following year, the members announced that they were breaking up the band for personal reasons.
Discography
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- 2003: Polars (self-distributed; republished in 2004 by Listenable Records )
- 2006: Drawing Circles (Listenable Records)
- 2008: Silhouettes (Listenable Records)
- 2011: Dualism ( Nuclear Blast )
- 2016: Phenotype (Nuclear Blast)
Web links
- Official website (English)
- Textures at Nuclear Blast
- Textures at laut.de
- Textures at Allmusic (English)
- Textures at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ metal.de: Interview with guitarist Bart Hennephof (April 28, 2008)
- ↑ texturesband.com: Textures singer Eric Kalsbeek leaves the band message on the official website, accessed January 21, 2010
- ↑ blabbermouth.net: BLABBERMOUTH.NET: TEXTURES Announces New Singer ( Memento of the original from June 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Textures Announce Break Up. In: texturesband.com. May 17, 2017, accessed February 18, 2018 .
- ↑ dutchcharts.nl: Chart tracking Textures
