Polars (album)

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Polars
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Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 25, 2003 (2003-08-25)
September 28, 2004 (2004-09-28)(Re-release)
October 20, 2014 (2014-10-20)(Remaster)
Genre Progressive metalcore
Length57:50
Label
Producer Textures
Textures chronology
Polars
(2003)
Drawing Circles
(2006)
10th Anniversary Special Edition
Polars 10th Anniversary Special Edition.jpg
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Polars is the debut studio album by Dutch metal band Textures. It was released on August 25, 2003, by Listenable Records. The album was recorded, produced, mixed and mastered by the band themselves. [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.

Contents

The album contains eight songs, the sixth and eighth of which are wholly ambient with assorted sound effects. It is their only album featuring vocalist Pieter Verpaalen, who was replaced by Eric Kalsbeek for their second release.

The enhanced CD also features the music video for "Ostensibly Impregnable".

Track listing

No.TitleLength
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" (two and a half minutes of silence at the end removed in re-release)17:04
Total length:57:50

Personnel

Textures
Production

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