![]() ![]() A continuation of this new sound with small evolutions that amounts to a ton of quality headbanging riffs and catchy as hell metal tracks. So the 5 piece of Winston McCall on vocals, Ben Gordon on drums, Luke Kilpatrick on rhythm guitar, Jeff Ling on lead guitar and Jia O’Connor on bass return with Darker Still. ![]() Love them or hate them, we should never try to limit a band’s ambitions and these guys are heading at full speed to the very top, blazing a path that other bands can look at, be inspired by and try to follow. They figured out the formula and it works. Adding theatrics to their stage performance, adding a fuck ton of fire and then paring all of that with a collection of simple, catchy and singable songs to mix in with some of their older classics. That is where Parkway Drive smashed it out of the park. You need cross-over appeal, you need to be memorable too and that comes through simple but effective music and a decent stage show doesn’t hurt either. If you have goals and ambitions, the simple fact is you are unlikely to achieve them limiting yourself to a single genre. For me, genres like metalcore are great but have a ceiling. For some, a band moving away from their core sound can cause annoyance, especially if you were a big fan of that original sound. After I became a little obsessed with Reverence, I listened back to understand what I was missing and can clearly see that their cocoon emerging started back with 2015’s Ire. ![]() In truth, the once metalcore stars had started to transform their sound before Reverence though I had not really been paying attention. Parkway Drive continue to push towards the very top with their new album, Darker Still, released on the 9th of September via Epitaph Records.Ī band I have held in reverence since, well since Reverence, their 2018 bar raising masterpiece. ![]()
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