Thornhill – Bodies

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6.5

• Band:
  Thornhill
• Duration: 00:37:35
• Available since: 04/04/2025
• Label:

• UNFD

In the game of mirrors which is the modern alternative metal scene, the name of the Defones is one of those that bounces most often in terms of influence – starting from New sensation Sleep Token, Loathe and Spiritbox, but also the most Rodati Architects and Bring Me The Horizon have paid recently on a couple of occasions – however no band has gone to the levels of the Thornhill, the Australian group that already on the occasion of the previous two albums, the promising “The Dark Pool” and the even more ambitious “Heroin”, has made no mystery of his admiration for the historical admiration Sacramento band.
This time, however, the formula begins to show the rope a little, also because they reached the finish line of the third album it would now be to start cutting the umbilical cord finding its own way, where “Bodies” vice versa lends itself even more to the charge of plagiarism against Chino Moreno and Stephen Carpenter.
If the initial “Diesel” and “Silver Swarm” throw it in the caciara with a powerful production that updates the bass in the foreground and the electronics of the Primigenio Nu Metal and Salterino, vice versa the most emotional pieces such as “Revolver”, “Only Ever You” or “Obsession” are written in the filigree the Defones brand both in the emphatic song of Jacob Charlton and in the Riffing Sghembo by Ethan McCann; Similar speech for the rhythmic ups and downs of “tongues” and “nervous”, which at least add a hardcore aftertaste to the equation to make everything heavier.
Net of “Crush”, R&B parenthesis frankly a little out of context, the remaining ten tracks of “Bodies” still flow pleasant, with a good balance between the seduction of the most refined alternative metal and the more 'soft' kinetic energy of the Nu Metal.
The Ocean Grove, remaining in the surroundings of Melbourne, convinced us more even without inventing anything, but net of the 'Copy Copy' effect the Thornhill remain a band with excellent potential.

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