Turpentine Valley - Tremor (official visualizer)
TURPENTINE VALLEY
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In TREMOR, Turpentine Valley shows its ability to boldly navigate a number of immense moments with a striking amount of skill and dexterity. If there were ever any whispers of a sophomore slump, Turpentine Valley steadfastly silence them with this substantial second offering.
Building off the strength of their 2019 debut Etch, Belgium’s Turpentine Valley continue their careful navigation of light, dark, and the spaces just between on their new record Alder. Simplicity, patience and pacing colliding with power, density and unrelenting volume.
Their impetus is clearly the rugged, muscular terrain of post-metal, and the force of their delivery honors the legacy of that style. But what distinguishes them are the subtle explorations of fairer sensibilities that emerge from the shadows every so often, granting valuable additional dimension, and offering the listener brief but crucial respite from the otherwise considerable weight of these compositions.
'TREMOR' is the second single from Turpentine Valley's new album 'ALDER' to be released on February 25, 2022. 'ALDER' has been produced by Tim Toegaert. Recording, mixing and mastering was done by Stef Exelmans, 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.
Belgium based Turpentine Valley reduces its post-metal to purity, ‘etching’ 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 ‘Etch’ through Dunk!records on November 1st 2019 was the next step in spreading its instrumental post-metal ever since. Three songs from that record (‘Vergeten’, ‘Trauma’ & ‘Abrupt’) can be heard in the soundtrack of the Netflix crime drama 'The Twelve'. On 25 February, Dunk!Records co-releases successor 'ALDER' on 12” vinyl together with A Thousand Arms Records (US), Ripcord Records takes care of the UK release of this album on tape.
Turpentine Valley is: Thomas Maes (bass) - Kristof Balduyck (guitar) - Roel Berlaen (drums)
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Visualizer credits: Kevin Hensels