Stacking Up The Bodies With JACOB & ETHAN From THORNHILL

Interview by Kris Peters
After earning themselves an ARIA nomination with 2022's album
Heroine, Melbourne metal titans Thornhill have pulled out all stops
to ensure its successor further explores the sonic parameters in
which their music falls.
Bodies finds Thornhill elevating to spectacular new heights,
offering an unbridled explosion of raw vulnerability fused with
some of the band's heaviest moments to date. While Heroine revelled
in lush textures and bold, curated aesthetics, Bodies finds
Thornhill opening the floodgates to spontaneity. 
Balancing intensity with boundless creative freedom and ingenuity,
album number three for Thornhill is not only a definitive snapshot
of a band in full flight just shy of a decade into their staggering
career; it's also a celebration of authenticity and gripping
dynamism from one of Australia's most engaging heavy acts.
HEAVY caught up with vocalist Jacob Charlton and guitarist Ethan
McCann to talk more.
"I think the first thing that we wanted to sit down to after
Heroine was we wanted a lot more energy and a lot more pace in the
music," Ethan explained. "We found that when we took Heroine to our
live show it felt like it was dragging at times. Because we started
playing heavy music when we were teenagers we kind of missed that
energy, and seing that reaction in real time."
We ask how they actually achieved that, to which Ethan replied, "I
think just a lot more focus on rhythm, and drumbeat. Jacob was
listening to a lot more pop and R&B music around this time, so
I think there was a lot more pace with his vocal patterns, as
opposed to long, stretched out chords and crooning vocals from the
last album."
In the full interview we speak to Jacob and Ethan more about the
musicality on Bodies, the pressures of following an ARIA nominated
album, how it contains the heaviest moments in Thornhill's musical
history, the singles released and how they represent the album as a
whole, how Bodies represents Thornhill in 2025, this weekends Album
Listening shows and more.

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