Artist: TEXTURES
Album: GENOTYPE GREEN VINYL (LP)

Release date: 2016
EAN/UPS: 4260080811736
Media type: LP

TEXTURES present an eclectic overview of what modern metal offers:
CATCHY, INNOVATIVE AND PROGRESSIVE!

In 2003, the year of the launch of TEXTURES’ debut album »Polars«, the first reactions start to stream in: “This is the best metal album that’s ever come out of the Netherlands” according to the Dutch music magazine Oor. The standard is set. TEXTURES, once just a promising up-and-coming band, have now emerged, four albums later, as an established name in the worldwide metal scene. While inspiring loads of modern metal bands, putting India on the metalmap, paving the way for mathcore, djent and modern prog, TEXTURES always go in their own direction; making great, modern metal songs and memorable albums.

»Phenotype« - »Genotype«
The year 2015 marks the start of the era »Phenotype« - »Genotype«. Two albums, released on Nuclear Blast Records, based around one concept. The Dutch sextet is not a band to put out an album every year: The band took over 2 years to write and record albums  five and six. Music is not fast food! Details are crafted and re-crafted. Extra layers are created and stretched to instil the ultimate attention span for years to come.

»Phenotype« - the first album to be released - is a song-based, 60-minute long release. TEXTURES present an eclectic overview of what modern metal offers. Catchy, innovative and progressive songs are what TEXTURES deal in. Welcome new virtuosos Uri Dijk (synth) and Joe Tal (guitar) who deliver a new, harmonic vibe to the mature TEXTURES sound.

»Genotype« - which will be released a year later - is a 45-minute long, conceptual track. The root material that »Phenotype« consists of, is presented in this song, but in a totally different context. TEXTURES go out-of-the-box. More proggie, more atmospheric and lots of extra layers to fill the last gaps left in this extensive, double rollercoaster ride.

Standard works
With »Polars« and »Silhouettes« both acclaimed as international standard works in metal, TEXTURES set high standards for their new musical diptych. Everybody from Europe to the U.S. to India could sing along to the singles 'Awake' and 'Reaching Home', which received strong support from online metal communities and got prime time airplay on Radio 3 fm (NL), Radio 1 (UK) and Triple J (AU). The video clip of 'Awake' secured airplay on MTV in Europe and Russia, and VH1 in India. In the Netherlands TEXTURES reached the Album Top 100. The band played at Graspop in Belgium, the Great Escape in the UK, Tuska in Finland, Hellfest in France and Lowlands in their home country the Netherlands, and also toured with GOJIRA, ARCH ENEMY, TESSERACT and ALL THAT REMAINS, among others.

'Big in India'
In 2009 the band flew to Bangalore to play India for the first time - where they’d just been featured on the cover of India’s most prestigious rock magazine The Rock Street Journal - and delivered an explosive headline performance for over 5,000 fans. Exactly a year later they returned for another festival, dazzling the University Of New Delhi where the band was welcomed by thousands once again. It didn't stop. TEXTURES became one of the first metal bands to become 'big in India.' The Dutch sextet had the privilege to cover almost the intire country with festival headline gigs in Pune, Calcutta, Bangalore, Delhi and later on also Kathmandu in neighbouring country Nepal on invitation of the royal family.

With two new albums in the pocket TEXTURES will be hitting the road once again, touring all over the world in support of the album and going places where they’ve never been before, both literally and metaphorically.


Side A:

01. Oceans Collide
02. New Horizons
03. Shaping A Single Grain Of Sand
04. Illuminate The Trail

Side B:

01. Meander
02. Erosion
03. The Fourth Prime
04. Zman
05. Timeless


LINE-UP:

Daniel de Jongh - vocals
Joe Tal - guitars
Bart Hennephof - guitars
Stef Broks - drums
Remko Tielemans - bass
Uri Dijk - synths