“We’re back to being the opening act – a difficult pill to swallow. But I see a great opportunity”: Textures pioneered djent but never received full credit. Can their comeback album secure their achievements?

Textures.

Textures once helped pioneer the modern dent and heavy progressive blueprint. But the Dutch sextet disbanded at the end of 2017 when it felt like the bands they'd inspired had overtaken them. Now, back from the dead and sounding more complete than ever before, returning keyboardist Uri Dijk tells Prog about their resurrection via sixth album Genotype.

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