Polars

Polars
Studio album by Textures
Released August 2003
Re-release:
September 28, 2004
Remaster:
October 20, 2014
Recorded 2001 2003
Genre Progressive metal, groove metal, metalcore, technical death metal, ambient
Length 55:20
Label Listenable
Remaster:
Nuclear Blast
Producer Textures
Textures chronology

Polars
(2003)
Drawing Circles
(2006)
10th Anniversary Special Edition
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [Polars at AllMusic link]

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.[1] The label re-issued the album in 2004 with slightly different cover art (adding images of machinery and gears) and in some cases, a different casing.

The album contained eight songs, the final two being the two longest songs of the album. The sixth and eighth songs are wholly ambient with assorted sound effects. Most of the other tracks bear hallmarks of thrash and progressive metal, with some death metal and hardcore elements. It is also their only album featuring vocalist Pieter Verpaalen, who was replaced by Eric Kalsbeek for their second release.

The CD also features the video for Ostensibly Impregnable.[2]

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Swandive"   5:09
2. "Ostensibly Impregnable"   3:21
3. "Young Man"   3:59
4. "Transgression"   4:20
5. "The Barrier"   2:55
6. "Effluent"   3:12
7. "Polars"   18:25
8. "Heave"   14:34
Total length:
55:20

Credits

References

  1. Textures Official Website
  2. "Account Suspended". Video.metalz.info. Retrieved 2012-03-05.