Polars (album)

Polars
Studio album by Textures
Released	August 2003 Re-release: September 28, 2004 Remaster: October 20, 2014
Genre	Metalcore, Thrash metal, Progressive metal
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
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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

Personnel

Textures

• Jochem Jacobs - guitars, backing vocals
• Stef Broks - drums
• Dennis Aarts - bass guitar
• Bart Hennephof - guitars, backing vocals
• Pieter Verpaalen - lead vocals
• Richard Rietdijk - synthesizer, keyboards

Production

• Jochem Jacobs - recording, mixing, mastering
• Richard Rietdijk - recording, mixing
• Bart Hennephof - artwork, layout

References

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