Textures Said Goodbye to India in 2017. They Came Back in 2025 With an Album They Almost Never Made.
Disbanded. Returned. New album. India again. The Textures story is unlike anything else in progressive metal.
They said goodbye in Pune. They came back with an album nobody thought would exist.
Their farewell show was in Pune.
Not in Amsterdam, where they are from. Not in one of the major European festival cities where they had built their name over fifteen years. Their last show before disbanding was on December 8, 2017 in Pune, India. A country that had loved them from a long distance, through albums and imports and bootleg recordings and the particular obsession of Indian progressive metal fans who find a band and hold on with both hands. Textures chose to say goodbye there. That tells you everything about what India meant to them.
The story of how they got there, and how they came back, is the most extraordinary one in progressive metal right now.
Textures formed in Tilburg, Netherlands in 2001. Jochem Jacobs on guitar, Stef Broks on drums, Bart Hennephof on guitar, with a rotating cast of vocalists and bassists in the early years that eventually settled into the lineup that would define them. Bassist Remko Tielemans joined in 2007. Vocalist Daniël de Jongh and keyboardist Uri Dijk came in 2010 and the classic Textures was complete. Their sound was something that did not quite fit any single category. Mathematical precision and polyrhythmic complexity that made other progressive metal bands sound straightforward by comparison. Clean vocals that could carry melody over riffs that had no business being as heavy as they were. Songs that were technically demanding to the point of being almost impossible to reproduce live, and yet they did it every night, every tour, every stage they were ever given.
Their debut album Polars in 2003 won the Essent Award for Most Promising Act in the Netherlands. Drawing Circles in 2006, Silhouettes in 2008, Dualism in 2011, and Phenotype in 2016 built a legacy that the progressive metal world recognised as genuinely important. In India, they headlined festivals and performed for rooms full of people who had memorised albums that most of the world had not even found yet. That is what the Indian progressive metal community does. It goes deep before anyone else arrives.
Then in 2017, Textures announced they were splitting up. Farewell tour. Final shows. And as already mentioned, the last one was in Pune. There had been talk of a companion album to Phenotype, a record called Genotype that was planned as a double release. It never came. The band dissolved. Genotype seemed like it would remain forever unfinished, a thing that existed only in fragments and studio files and the memories of the people who had been working on it.
Fans waited anyway. That is what this fanbase does.
In 2023, Textures announced they were coming back. Not for a reunion tour. Not for a cash-in greatest hits run. They were coming back to finish what they had started. Genotype, the album that had been promised and then abandoned, was going to be made properly. From scratch. New material. Everything they had learned in the years of silence, brought back to the studio and turned into something real.
Genotype was released on January 23, 2026, through Kscope Records. Eight songs. Mixed by Forrester Savell, who has worked with Karnivool and Dead Letter Circus. Featuring Charlotte Wessels on the track At The Edge of Winter. Lyrically built around people who go unheard, introverts, outsiders, those navigating internal lives that the world does not always make space for. It is the most emotionally direct thing they have ever made and also the most technically uncompromising. The two things are not in tension. For Textures they never have been.
And then they came back to India.
September 12, 2025, Nesco Center, Mumbai. September 13, 2025, The Lalit Ashok, Bengaluru. Two shows on the return, in two cities that had been waiting since that Pune farewell eight years earlier. The Indian progressive metal community that had built its love for this band across decades of albums and imports and deep listening finally had its answer. Textures did not forget. They came back.
Honestly, the fact that they chose to end their first chapter in India and begin their second chapter in India too is not something that needs to be explained. It just needs to be acknowledged.
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