SIMPLICITY, PATIENCE & PACING COLLIDING WITH POWER, DENSITY & UNRELENTLING VOLUME …
“๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ต๐ถ๐ด ๐ช๐ด ๐ค๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ญ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ถ๐จ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฅ, ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ด๐ค๐ถ๐ญ๐ข๐ณ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต-๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต๐ข๐ญ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐จ๐ข๐ค๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ด๐ต๐บ๐ญ๐ฆ. ๐๐ถ๐ต ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ถ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ถ๐ฃ๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ง๐ข๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด๐ช๐ฃ๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ด ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ง๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ, ๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ท๐ข๐ญ๐ถ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ง ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ค๐ณ๐ถ๐ค๐ช๐ข๐ญ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฑ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ธ๐ช๐ด๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด.”
– ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐๐
Belgium based Turpentine Valley reduces its post-metal to purity, โetchingโ it to the soul of anyone open to it. No words, massive sound. Hitting it hard. Layered guitars. Growling bass. Allowing music to tell its story: slow, intense, hard and relentless. Although its members already play together for more than half a lifetime, Turpentine Valley still could be called a rather young band, only seeing the light in 2016. Releasing its debut album โEtchโ through Dunk!records on November 1st 2019 was the next step in spreading its instrumental post-metal ever since. Three songs from that record (โVergetenโ, โTraumaโ & โAbruptโ) can be heard in the soundtrack of the Netflix crime drama ‘The Twelve’.On 25 February 2022, Dunk!Records released successor ‘ALDER’ on 12โ vinyl in Europe, A Thousand Arms Records released the album in the US on vinyl and cd, and Ripcord Records took care of the UK-release of this album on tape. On this new album, the band explores the dark boundaries of the instrumental post-metal genre even more explicitly, without compromising on melody and intensity.
Turpentine Valley is:
Kristof Balduyck โ guitars
Thomas Maes โ bass
Roel Berlaen โ drums
