If you’re only now joining the Thornhill story, they have just driven off a cliff into the unknown. The Melbourne group could have stuck with the route laid out by 2019 debut The Dark Pool, which performed well at home and singled them out as a darkly compelling metalcore act worthy of invited to tour with Architects and Parkway Drive. Instead, on their second album, Heroine, Thornhill have taken a hard left turn from the easy path and ended up somewhere far more intriguing and likely to keep you on the edge of your seat. Take Arkangel. What begins as a Deftones-esque overload of searing guitars and thunderous bass played out in an Ibiza nightclub is suddenly snuffed out, tension building around a moody guitar line that puts you in a mind of a spy fi...