Belgian post rockers TURPENTINE VALLEY discuss the challenges of being an instrumental band, teasing new album “Alder”

Simplicity, patience and pacing colliding with power, density and unrelenting volume. 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...

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