The crowd chanting along with the riff didn’t need to be played from a tape for long because every PWD fan knows this one and can sing it back to them from the pit. When they wrote this they knew it was going to be massive live. Part 3 – “We blaze our path through darkness…”
Not a new theme but serves as Parkway’s contribution to the cannon of political anthems. A call to arms that dares to defy preachers, zealots and politicians. A bludgeoning track that perfectly matches music to lyrics. The opening chant leads into an absolute hammer of a riff and continues into the verses. Whilst he eventually unleashes his scream, it is at this point they officially leave metalcore behind and head for bigger stages. Winston raps and talks his way through a poem that continues the underdog theme of earlier songs. It’s backed by strings, with Protest The Hero’s very own Tim Millar providing piano accompaniment and a massive drum sound from Ben Gordon. IREis predominately banger after banger but ‘Writings on the Wall’ almost grinds it to a halt. Both highlight the continued value of a good pre-chorus bridge too, demonstrating their continued growth as composers. McCall does it all himself and both these tracks have massive hooks that even reluctant audience members would find themselves singing along with. Reverence builds on the arena anthems of IRE without using guests to provide clean vocals. Oh and then it goes fucking hard with McCall barking the verses and growling the chorus. It certainly noted a progression from the immediacy of IRE ’s opener ‘ Destroyer ’, offering a slow burn and proving to be a real grower, especially the winding, almost synthy riff. It’s an incredibly dark lyric too, as McCall grapples with death and grief.Ī different kind of album opener for Reverence, with a distinctly slow and epic build as McCall calls out god and the devil to a fight. It’s a chunky riff fest that will cause mosh pits to explode. Organs and a choir hey? The second single that announced the arrival of Darker Still was instantly familiar but also more progressive that punters might have expected. It’s a haunting melody that brings a lump to your throat, and Jeff’s leads are gorgeous and will prompt Iron Maiden style singalongs once it debuts at festivals. I just want to know whose idea it was to start with the whistle? Immediately captivating and unlike almost anything they’ve done before, it builds on the slower moments of songs like ‘The Colour of Leaving’, even down to the strings, except that this time Winston actually sings. So how the hell did we go from ‘Romance is Dead’ to ‘Darker Still’ ? Let’s take a trip back through their discog and see how we got here.
They have done so by being themselves, not by following trends but by stretching their -core sound beyond that of their peers. The bands they toured with in those earlier years: Killswitch Engage, Hatebreed, Comeback Kid, Every Time I Die, would in time find themselves opening for Parkway Drive by the release of Reverence in 2018.Īs captured in their killer tour doco Viva The Underdogs, the band had graduated to headlining arenas and festivals as prestigious as Wacken Open Air. Killing… hinted at their ambition, as they headed off to the USA to work with Killswitch Engage mainman and producer, Adam Dutkiewicz.
These are the same dudes who released Killing with a Smile in 2005, but they have grown and matured as people, musicians and a band. Only a fool would accuse Parkway Drive of selling out. So the announcement of not only more gigs but a new album is more than welcomed, especially when it promises to be as ground shaking as Browny’s review indicates. Let’s be honest too, for a moment there it looked like we might lose them, as the band suspended touring to focus on their well being.
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The release of Parkway Drive’s first full blown power ballad, the title track from the forthcoming album Darker Still, moves them beyond comparisons to the Young brother’s legendary band but has the potential to open up PWD to a whole new audience and bring metal to the masses in a way no other Australian band has ever done. Our bossman said it best in his Virtual Hangs with frontman Winston McCall : “the greatest Aussie export since AC/DC”.
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