Polars (album)

Polars is the debut studio 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.[2] 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.

Polars
Studio album by Textures
Released	August 25, 2003 September 28, 2004 (Re-release) October 20, 2014 (Remaster)
Genre	Progressive metal, metalcore
Length	55:20
Label	Listenable Nuclear Blast (Remaster)
Producer	Textures
Textures chronology
Polars (2003) Drawing Circles (2006)
10th Anniversary Special Edition

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

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".

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. Polars at AllMusic
2. Textures Official Website Archived 2011-03-02 at the Wayback Machine