Like the villain in a successful slasher movie franchise, rock bands always come back. But it’s how you come back that really matters. That’s something Billy Talent have clearly been contemplating long and hard. After all, they’re now almost three decades deep into their career and it’s been six years since these multi-platinum punks last released an album (2016’s sporadically great, occasionally grating Afraid Of Heights). In that time, BT have got used to having a new drummer in their ranks – Alexisonfire sticksman Jordan Hastings is still adroitly covering for Aaron Solowoniuk, who stepped back from the band to cope with his MS – while the world as we knew it has been turned upside down by a pandemic, global political upheaval and a live music hiatus ...
