Darker Still Parkway Drive

• 1Ground Zero04:09
• 2Like Napalm03:44
• 3Glitch04:21
• 4The Greatest Fear05:28
• 5Darker Still06:50
• 6Imperial Heretic04:50
• 7If a God Can Bleed02:40
• 8Soul Bleach03:32
• 9Stranger00:50
• 10Land of the Lost04:59
• 11From the Heart of the Darkness05:08
• Total Runtime46:31

Info for Darker Still

In the kitchen of the Byron Bay home of Winston McCall stands a refrigerator, adorned on one side by a quote from Tom Waits: "I want beautiful melodie stelling me terrible things. "This, the PARKWAY DRIVE vocalist says, is a pretty good summation of himself. It holds true, too, as one of the guiding principles behind Darker Still, the seventh full-length album to be born of this picturesque and serene corner of north-eastern NSW, Australia, and the defining musical statement to date from one of modern metal's most revered bands.

Darker Still, McCall says, is the vision he and his bandmates - guitarists Jeff Ling and Luke Kilpatrick, bassist Jia O'Connor and drummer Ben Gordon - have held in their mind's eye since a misfit group of friends first convened in their parents' basements and backyards in 2003. The journey to reach this moment has seen Parkway evolve from metal underdogs to festival-headlining behemoth, off the back of close to 20 gruelling years, six critically and commercially acclaimed studio albums (all of which achieving Gold status in their home nation), three documentaries, one live album, and many, many thousands of shows.

While Darker Still remains irrefutably PARKWAY DRIVE, it finds the band sonically standing shoulder to shoulder with rock and metal's greats - Metallica, Pantera, Machine Head, Guns N' Roses- as much as it does their metalcore contemporaries. "I wanted a classic guitar tone for this record," explains Ling, who credits much of his inspiration to the connection his riffs have with a crowd in a live setting Emerging from the darkness of the past few years, this is the true face of PARKWAY DRIVE: redefined and resolute, focused in mind and defiant in spirit.

Parkway Drive

Parkway Drive
The metalcore band Parkway Drive not only causes a musical sensation in their home country of Australia, but also celebrates great success far away from the continent. The five-piece ensemble from Byron Bay owes its high profile in Europe to hits like "Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em" as well as numerous festival appearances and tours.

In 2003 Winston McCall, Jeff Ling, Luke Kilpatrick, Brett Versteeg and Ben Gordon founded Parkway Drive - PWD for short - in Byron Bay in the Australian state of New South Wales. Except for bassist Brett Versteeg, who was replaced by Shaun Cash before he in turn gave his position to Jia O'Connor, all founding members are still an integral part of the group today.

Parkway Drive caused an initial stir within their fan base with a split CD, which they recorded together with the Australian metalcore combo I Killed The Prom Queen. In 2004 their first recording (EP) "Don't Close Your Eyes" was released - and a year later Parkway Drive celebrated their premiere with a studio album. "Killing With A Smile" brings them a breakthrough with Australian Metalcore fans.

After the success of the second LP "Horizons", the band is also making a name for itself in the US metalcore scene. At the same time, Parkway Drive tours throughout Europe are on the schedule, which also cause the German fan base to storm with enthusiasm. In 2009, Parkway Drive released a DVD with excerpts from the show, which they peppered with interesting background information about the band.

With the album "Deep Blue" Parkway Drive continued their successful path in 2010 and toured in Japan, among other places. For the first time the band lands in the international charts with their songs. Over the years, several Parkway Drive albums have landed in the German album charts, including “Deep Blue”, “Atlas”, “Ire”, “Reverence” and “Viva The Underdogs”.

Typical of the Parkway Drive sound are the classic stylistic features of metalcore - a hard mix of extreme metal and hardcore punk. That changes with the fourth and fifth LP by the guys around Winston McCall. "Atlas" and "Ire" sound more melodic and profound, which doesn't appeal to all die-hard fans of the band. Nevertheless, the band opens up access to music fans of other directions in this way.

They continue on this course with the release of their album "Reverence", the success of which confirms that the band can still inspire many listeners after the change of direction. In 2018 and 2019, Parkway Drive will be among the headliners of the Full Force music festival, which is considered a mecca for metal, hardcore and punk fans. The band is also one of the main acts at the famous Wacken Open Air in 2019.

With all the fame that the five boys from Down Under have achieved in a short time, they still sell tickets for smaller Parkway Drive shows. This puts them in more intimate contact with their followers, who of course appreciate the special gigs.

In spring 2020, Parkway Drive will deliver the soundtrack to their own feature film "Viva The Underdogs", which traces the rise from the proverbial underdog to the headliner of the world's hippest festivals. A special highlight are three hits, which the ensemble translates into German.

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