Thornhill announce debut album ‘The Dark Pool’

THORNHILL have announced their debut album!

Titled The Dark Pool, the upcoming album is the Melbourne metalcore five-piece’s debut full-length effort and is scheduled to be released in October this year!

Speaking about the upcoming album, lead vocalist Jacob Charlton says, “we wanted it to have enough difference that people would be surprised, and it would also allow us to keep branching out down the track. We wanted to sprinkle enough in The Dark Pool that we could continue to build on, we never want to pigeon hole ourselves into a genre, that was never the point of THORNHILL. We just want to be exactly who we want to be every single time.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for the first song to be lifted from the upcoming album; titled Nurture.

Watch the official music video for Nurture here: 

Thematically, Charlton shares that each track touches on various common threads of humanity. Nurture is a commentary on idolising someone/something and losing yourself in the middle of that, and elsewhere the record touches on anxiety (Coven), body image (In My Skin), the afterlife (Where We Go When We Die) and loss (Lily & The Moon). On the genesis of its namesake, Jacob explains it refers to a dark, reflective pool where we can all see a mirror of ourselves and what makes us who we are. While each track is closely linked Jacob‘s reality, he encourages listeners to reflect on their own experiences and take their own meanings from his lyrics. “I’ve been dealing with pretty much everything on the album for as long as it’s been in the writing process, and that’s been a really long time. There’s been a lot of life and things that I’ve gone through in that time that and definitely translates… but I don’t want you to listen to this record and just think about me, because there are moments on there that everyone can relate to. For example, Lily & The Moon is about my dog, but it’s also broadly about loss so everyone can relate to that in their own way, it could be about anyone someone has lost or is losing. It’s not supposed to be a story of sadness either, it’s supposed to be a reminder to make sure that we care enough about the people that we love while we still have them.”

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming album below:

Track List: 

1. Views From The Sun
2. Nurture
3. The Haze
4. Red Summer
5. In My skin
6. All The Light We Don’t See
7. Lily & The Moon
8. Coven
9. Human
10. Netherplace
11. Where We Go When We Die

The Dark Pool is set for release on October 25th via UNFD. The band will support WAGE WAR on their European and UK tour in January next year.

For more information on THORNHILL like their official page on Facebook.