Polars is the debut 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. 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.

The album contains 8 songs, the final two being the two longest songs of the album. The sixth and eight song are wholly ambient

Ambient music

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...

 with assorted sound effects. Most of the other tracks bear hallmarks of thrash

Thrash metal

Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized usually by its fast tempo and aggression. Songs of the genre typically use fast percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work...

 and progressive metal

Progressive metal

Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal originating in the United Kingdom and North America in the late 1980s...

, with some death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 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

Credits

• Textures - Composition, Lyrics, Production, Mixing
• Jochem Jacobs
  Jochem Jacobs
  Jochem Jacobs is a Dutch guitarist, producer and recording engineer, noted for his work as founder, guitarist and producer for Textures. He works at Split Second Sound, a studio in Amsterdam, and is currently working on Textures' upcoming album to be released with Nuclear Blast...
  
   - Guitar, Backing Vocals, Mastering, Mixing, Recording
• Stef Broks
  Stef Broks
  Stef Broks is a Dutch drummer best known for his work with Textures and Exivious. He uses Meinl cymbals, Tama drums, Evans drum heads and Pro-Mark sticks...
  
  - Drums
• Dennis Aarts - Bass
• Bart Hennephof - Guitar, Artwork
• Pieter Verpaalen - Lead Vocals
• Richard Rietdijk - Mixing, Synthesizer, Recording