Textures (band)
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Textures is a metal
band from the Netherlands, formed in 2001. Textures' lineup revolves around founding members Jochem Jacobs
, Stef Broks
, Bart Hennephof, and bassist Remko Tielemans who joined in 2007. Since 2010, vocalist Daniël de Jongh and keyboardist Uri Dijk have been with the band.
The band plays a complex and innovative style, influenced by progressive metal
, metalcore
, technical death metal
and groove metal
. They also incorporate melodic interludes and experiment with a wide variety of multi-layered musical influences. On their first release, Polars
, they also experimented with ambient
soundscapes, before fusing the ambient and riffs together more closely on later releases.
Textures first came to the spotlight with their debut album Polars with Listenable Records which won an Essent Award for ‘Most Promising Act’ in 2004. Since then, the band released 2 more albums with Listenable Records, 2006's Drawing Circles
and 2008's Silhouettes
after signing to Nuclear Blast
records.
The band also recently played their first ever show in India, co-headlining the Deccan Rock Festival in Bangalore on 5 December 2009 along with Amon Amarth
. The band returned to India in October 2010, performing in New Delhi at the annual festival of Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
, Rendezvous 2010.
, guitarist Bart Hennephof, drummer Stef Broks
, bassist Dennis Aarts and synth maestro Richard Rietdijk formed the band and were joined by vocalist Pieter Verpaalen for their debut album Polars with Listenable Records. The album was fully self produced, with the mixing and recording done by Jacobs and the artwork done by Hennephof.
The name Textures was coined by Stef Broks
as an indicator of the use of many layers of sounds in their songs, as well as the blending of different musical backgrounds and tastes, as well as varying personalities of the band members as well.
and Arch Enemy and culminated in a Europe wide tour with All That Remains
and Misery Signals
plus nominations in three categories of Holland’s Live XS Awards.
2007 saw the introduction of bassist Remko Tielemans, with whom the band recorded their 2008 release, Silhouettes which entered he Dutch chart at position no. 100, the band's first chart showing ever.
The album also featured the hit Awake, which was made into a music video. The video was shot at the beginning of October in the Belgian Ardennes
under supervision of director Rob Hodselmans and producer David Leite with assistance from the Dutch Government.
The vinyl
version of Silhouettes was released in November 2008 through Garden of Exile Records. The LP was limited to 500 copies and pressed on 180-gram vinyl. The artwork was printed on extra-thick cardboard gatefold jacket with golden foil print.
Soon after Daniel de Jongh was announced as the replacement, keyboard player Richard Rietdijk left the band. He was replaced by Uri Dijk, originally as a live stand-in and finally as a permanent member in September 2010.
On January 27, 2011, the band announced on their official website they entered the studio to begin the recording of their fourth studio album, with the following statement:
Guitarist and producer Jacobs described the progress in the album recording as
In March 2011 the band released their first podcast covering the band's return to the studio for recording their fourth album. The new album is being recorded in the new Split Second Sound studio in Amsterdam
, Netherlands. Jacobs and Broks state that the new album is scheduled for release in Fall 2011 with Nuclear Blast
Records. In May 2011 the band confirmed their first European Launch show at the Euroblast Festival in Koln
, Germany in October alongside Chimp Spanner.
On 11 May 2011, guitarist Jacobs was adjudged the best Dutch guitarist in the Duiveltjes awards at the Gala van de Pop Muziek 2011 organized by Muziek Centrum Nederland, beating out Anne Soldaat
and Vedran Mircetic
.
On July 14 it was announced that the successor to Silhouettes would be titled Dualism
. The artwork and track listing were unveiled on Textures official Facebook page and it was released on September 23 in Europe, South America and Asia, while North America had a 27 September release date through Nuclear Blast records.
The first single from the album "Reaching Home" was released alongside a music video.
In September 2011, Textures embarked on the Frak The Gods Tour, along with Periphery
and The Human Abstract
in support of their album Dualism. This was Textures first tour of the United States.
Former members
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
band from the Netherlands, formed in 2001. Textures' lineup revolves around founding members Jochem Jacobs
Jochem Jacobs
Jochem Jacobs is a Dutch guitarist, producer and recording engineer, noted for his work as founder, guitarist and producer for Textures. He works at Split Second Sound, a studio in Amsterdam, and is currently working on Textures' upcoming album to be released with Nuclear Blast...
, Stef Broks
Stef Broks
Stef Broks is a Dutch drummer best known for his work with Textures and Exivious. He uses Meinl cymbals, Tama drums, Evans drum heads and Pro-Mark sticks...
, Bart Hennephof, and bassist Remko Tielemans who joined in 2007. Since 2010, vocalist Daniël de Jongh and keyboardist Uri Dijk have been with the band.
The band plays a complex and innovative style, influenced by progressive metal
Progressive metal
Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal originating in the United Kingdom and North America in the late 1980s...
, metalcore
Metalcore
Metalcore is a subgenre of heavy metal combining various elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk. The name is a portmanteau of the names of the two genres. The term took on its current meaning in the mid-1990s, describing bands such as Earth Crisis, Deadguy and Integrity...
, technical death metal
Technical death metal
Technical death metal is a musical subgenre of death metal that focuses on complex rhythms, riffs and song structures. Technical experimentation in death metal began in the late '80s and early '90s by bands such as Death, Atheist and Cynic...
and groove metal
Groove metal
Groove metal is a subgenre of heavy metal. It was often used to describe Pantera and Exhorder.- Characteristics and origins :Pantera's Cowboys from Hell album from 1990 was described as "groundbreaking" and "blueprint-defining" for the groove metal genre...
. They also incorporate melodic interludes and experiment with a wide variety of multi-layered musical influences. On their first release, Polars
Polars
Polars is the debut album from Dutch metal band, Textures. It was produced, mixed, recorded, and mastered entirely by the band themselves, and was issued on Listenable Records in 2003...
, they also experimented with ambient
Ambient music
Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...
soundscapes, before fusing the ambient and riffs together more closely on later releases.
Textures first came to the spotlight with their debut album Polars with Listenable Records which won an Essent Award for ‘Most Promising Act’ in 2004. Since then, the band released 2 more albums with Listenable Records, 2006's Drawing Circles
Drawing Circles
Drawing Circles is the second album by Dutch metal band Textures. It is fairly similar to their previous album, except with clearer production and shorter ambient sections than those on Polars. There is a greater emphasis on metal music than the previous album; thus, there are more songs on this...
and 2008's Silhouettes
Silhouettes (album)
-Personnel:*Eric Kalsbeek - Vocals*Jochem Jacobs - Guitar, Backing vocals*Bart Hennephof - Guitar*Richard Rietdijk - Synthesizer*Remko Tielemans - Bass*Stef Broks - Drums-External links:*...
after signing to Nuclear Blast
Nuclear Blast
Nuclear Blast is an independent record label and mail order record distributor with subsidiaries in Germany, the United States and Brazil. The record label was founded in 1987 by Markus Staiger in Germany. Originally releasing hardcore punk records, the label moved on to releasing albums by melodic...
records.
The band also recently played their first ever show in India, co-headlining the Deccan Rock Festival in Bangalore on 5 December 2009 along with Amon Amarth
Amon Amarth
Amon Amarth is a Swedish viking metal band from Tumba, Sweden founded in 1992, and takes its name from the Sindarin translation of Mount Doom, a location in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. The band comprises vocalist Johan Hegg, guitarists Olavi Mikkonen and Johan Söderberg, bassist Ted Lundström...
. The band returned to India in October 2010, performing in New Delhi at the annual festival of Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
The Indian Institute Of Technology, Delhi , commonly known as IIT Delhi or IITD, is a college of engineering in Delhi, India...
, Rendezvous 2010.
Formation and Polars (2001–2003)
In 2001, Jochem JacobsJochem Jacobs
Jochem Jacobs is a Dutch guitarist, producer and recording engineer, noted for his work as founder, guitarist and producer for Textures. He works at Split Second Sound, a studio in Amsterdam, and is currently working on Textures' upcoming album to be released with Nuclear Blast...
, guitarist Bart Hennephof, drummer Stef Broks
Stef Broks
Stef Broks is a Dutch drummer best known for his work with Textures and Exivious. He uses Meinl cymbals, Tama drums, Evans drum heads and Pro-Mark sticks...
, bassist Dennis Aarts and synth maestro Richard Rietdijk formed the band and were joined by vocalist Pieter Verpaalen for their debut album Polars with Listenable Records. The album was fully self produced, with the mixing and recording done by Jacobs and the artwork done by Hennephof.
The name Textures was coined by Stef Broks
Stef Broks
Stef Broks is a Dutch drummer best known for his work with Textures and Exivious. He uses Meinl cymbals, Tama drums, Evans drum heads and Pro-Mark sticks...
as an indicator of the use of many layers of sounds in their songs, as well as the blending of different musical backgrounds and tastes, as well as varying personalities of the band members as well.
Drawing Circles and Silhouettes (2004–2008)
Vocalist Verpaalen was replaced by Eric Kalsbeek for their second album Drawing Circles, released on October 17, 2006. The song Millstone from the album was also made into a music video. In support of the album, Textures toured with bands such as The Ocean, GojiraGojira
Gojira is a heavy metal band formed in 1996 in Bayonne, France. The band was known as Godzilla until 2001. Gojira is composed of Joe Duplantier on vocals and guitar, his brother Mario Duplantier on drums, Christian Andreu on guitar and Jean-Michel Labadie on bass...
and Arch Enemy and culminated in a Europe wide tour with All That Remains
All That Remains (band)
All That Remains is an American heavy metal band from Springfield, Massachusetts, which formed in 1998. They have released five studio albums, a live CD/DVD, and have sold nearly 800,000 records...
and Misery Signals
Misery Signals
Misery Signals is an American metalcore band formed in Wisconsin in 2002. The sound of their music is defined by bright melodies backed up by odd time signatures, chugging riffs, and breakdowns.-Formation :...
plus nominations in three categories of Holland’s Live XS Awards.
2007 saw the introduction of bassist Remko Tielemans, with whom the band recorded their 2008 release, Silhouettes which entered he Dutch chart at position no. 100, the band's first chart showing ever.
The album also featured the hit Awake, which was made into a music video. The video was shot at the beginning of October in the Belgian Ardennes
Ardennes
The Ardennes is a region of extensive forests, rolling hills and ridges formed within the Givetian Ardennes mountain range, primarily in Belgium and Luxembourg, but stretching into France , and geologically into the Eifel...
under supervision of director Rob Hodselmans and producer David Leite with assistance from the Dutch Government.
The vinyl
Gramophone record
A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...
version of Silhouettes was released in November 2008 through Garden of Exile Records. The LP was limited to 500 copies and pressed on 180-gram vinyl. The artwork was printed on extra-thick cardboard gatefold jacket with golden foil print.
Lineup changes and "Dualism" (2009-present)
After 6 years, singer/frontman Eric Kalsbeek announced his departure from the band citing the lack of personal time and ability to continue with the band. In March 2010, Daniël de Jongh (ex- Cilice) joined the band as a replacement. Due to the singer change, the follow-up to their 2008 release Silhouettes has been postponed to early 2011.Soon after Daniel de Jongh was announced as the replacement, keyboard player Richard Rietdijk left the band. He was replaced by Uri Dijk, originally as a live stand-in and finally as a permanent member in September 2010.
On January 27, 2011, the band announced on their official website they entered the studio to begin the recording of their fourth studio album, with the following statement:
Guitarist and producer Jacobs described the progress in the album recording as
In March 2011 the band released their first podcast covering the band's return to the studio for recording their fourth album. The new album is being recorded in the new Split Second Sound studio in Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
, Netherlands. Jacobs and Broks state that the new album is scheduled for release in Fall 2011 with Nuclear Blast
Nuclear Blast
Nuclear Blast is an independent record label and mail order record distributor with subsidiaries in Germany, the United States and Brazil. The record label was founded in 1987 by Markus Staiger in Germany. Originally releasing hardcore punk records, the label moved on to releasing albums by melodic...
Records. In May 2011 the band confirmed their first European Launch show at the Euroblast Festival in Koln
KOLN
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, Germany in October alongside Chimp Spanner.
On 11 May 2011, guitarist Jacobs was adjudged the best Dutch guitarist in the Duiveltjes awards at the Gala van de Pop Muziek 2011 organized by Muziek Centrum Nederland, beating out Anne Soldaat
Daryll-Ann
Daryll-Ann was a Dutch rock band stemming from Ermelo, a small rural village in the east of the Netherlands. Between 1992 and 2004 the band released six studio albums, plus one live album. Daryll-Ann was the first signing of Dutch label Excelsior Recordings...
and Vedran Mircetic
De Staat
-Biography:De Staat started as a one man project by the leadsinger, Torre Florim, who brought the band together. Their first demo was made in 2007 and recorded in Florim's apartment. Before they even got signed they were already a full grown band, because of their well received live performances in...
.
On July 14 it was announced that the successor to Silhouettes would be titled Dualism
Dualism (album)
Dualism is the fourth album by Dutch metal band Textures. The album was released on September 23 in Europe, South America and Asia, and was released in North America on September 27, all via Nuclear Blast records....
. The artwork and track listing were unveiled on Textures official Facebook page and it was released on September 23 in Europe, South America and Asia, while North America had a 27 September release date through Nuclear Blast records.
The first single from the album "Reaching Home" was released alongside a music video.
In September 2011, Textures embarked on the Frak The Gods Tour, along with Periphery
Periphery (band)
Periphery is an American metal band from Bethesda, Maryland , formed in 2005.- Formation and lineup changes :Periphery was formed by guitarist Misha Mansoor in 2005...
and The Human Abstract
The Human Abstract
The Human Abstract is an American progressive metal band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 2004, the group was originally signed to the independent label Hopeless Records, the band then released the two albums Nocturne and Midheaven before signing to E1 Music and releasing Digital Veil...
in support of their album Dualism. This was Textures first tour of the United States.
Discography
- PolarsPolarsPolars is the debut album from Dutch metal band, Textures. It was produced, mixed, recorded, and mastered entirely by the band themselves, and was issued on Listenable Records in 2003...
(2003) - Drawing CirclesDrawing CirclesDrawing Circles is the second album by Dutch metal band Textures. It is fairly similar to their previous album, except with clearer production and shorter ambient sections than those on Polars. There is a greater emphasis on metal music than the previous album; thus, there are more songs on this...
(2006) - SilhouettesSilhouettes (album)-Personnel:*Eric Kalsbeek - Vocals*Jochem Jacobs - Guitar, Backing vocals*Bart Hennephof - Guitar*Richard Rietdijk - Synthesizer*Remko Tielemans - Bass*Stef Broks - Drums-External links:*...
(2008) - DualismDualism (album)Dualism is the fourth album by Dutch metal band Textures. The album was released on September 23 in Europe, South America and Asia, and was released in North America on September 27, all via Nuclear Blast records....
(2011)
Members
Current members- Daniël de Jongh — lead vocalsLead vocalistThe lead vocalist is the member of a band who sings the main vocal portions of a song. They may also play one or more instruments. Lead vocalists are sometimes referred to as the frontman or frontwoman, and as such, are usually considered to be the "leader" of the groups they perform in, often the...
(2010–present) - Bart Hennephof — guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
s, backing vocalsBacking vocalistA backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
(2001–present) - Jochem JacobsJochem JacobsJochem Jacobs is a Dutch guitarist, producer and recording engineer, noted for his work as founder, guitarist and producer for Textures. He works at Split Second Sound, a studio in Amsterdam, and is currently working on Textures' upcoming album to be released with Nuclear Blast...
— guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
s, backing vocals (2001–present) - Stef BroksStef BroksStef Broks is a Dutch drummer best known for his work with Textures and Exivious. He uses Meinl cymbals, Tama drums, Evans drum heads and Pro-Mark sticks...
— drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
(2001–present) - Remko Tielemans — bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
(2007–present) - Uri Dijk — synths (2010–present)
Former members
- Richard Rietdijk — synths (2001–2010)
- Dennis Aarts — bass guitar (2001–2007)
- Pieter Verpaalen — lead vocals (2001–2003)
- Eric Kalsbeek — lead vocals (2004–2010)
External links
- Textures official website
- Textures at MySpaceMySpaceMyspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....
- Textures at Encyclopaedia MetallumEncyclopaedia MetallumEncyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives is a website which lists bands from various forms of heavy metal music...
- Textures at Last.fmLast.fmLast.fm is a music website, founded in the United Kingdom in 2002. It has claimed 30 million active users in March 2009. On 30 May 2007, CBS Interactive acquired Last.fm for UK£140m ....