Textures Return To India One Last Time

- Anurag Tagat

AFTER CONFIRMING SHOWS IN Shillong and Bengaluru in October, Dutch metallers Textures realized they had one more offer from India—a slot at Bacardi NH7 Weekender’s Pune edition, between December 8th and 10th. That was an entire week after their officially announced last show in Tilburg as part of their farewell tour.

Drummer Stef Broks says over the phone from Utrecht, “We even had a meeting about it. We said, ‘If there’s one country that deserves this honor, it’s India.’ We just decided to go for it. If it was probably any other country, we’d just cancel it.”

When Textures announced in May it would dissolve by the end of 2017, there was the Last Miles to the Moon tour dates across Europe, and fans in India hoped the band would stop by the country they’ve been playing in regularly since their 2009 debut at Deccan Rock Festival in Bengaluru. Broks says, “We knew it was possible to go to India as well.”

The idea of Textures calling it quits, however, still remains surprising for fans, considering the band has been at their peak since delivering albums like Silhouettes in 2008. One of the immediate and most toughest decisions the band had to make was discarding their upcoming album Genotype, which was the companion to their 2016 album