Parkway Drive formed as teens in 2003, playing their formative shows at youth centres around Byron Bay. As frontman Winston McCall puts it, it was the painful culmination of “20 years worth of stunted personal growth, and everything that comes with being a bunch of kids that just go out and tour the world, and never look back.” To put it simply, ‘Darker Still’ is the album that came close to destroying them. But ‘Darker Still’ has been a hard-won victory, its recording dovetailing with the most excruciating period of Parkway Drive’s history. It’s an epic achievement for the band, befitting an epic album: from the thrash-metal thrills of ‘Ground Zero’ to the smoky slow burn of the title track, all the way to the blistering breakdowns on ‘Soul Bleach’, the album shows Parkway at their peak.Īs we’ve come to expect from Australia’s biggest metal band, it’s also been an immediate hit, debuting at Number One on the ARIA Top 50 Albums chart – their third consecutive LP to do so. Locally, for the entire stretch of this year’s NRL Finals, promos have been soundtracked by songs from Parkway Drive’s career-defining seventh album, ‘Darker Still’. ORDER NOW: NME Australia September 2022 issue with Parkway Drive on the cover.This year alone, Ed Sheeran has collaborated with Bring Me The Horizon, Willow married Top 40 pop with palm-muted chugging on the single ‘Maybe It’s My Fault’, and Eddie Munson became a Hawkins hero by shredding Metallica’s ‘Master Of Puppets’ in Stranger Things. Content warning: this story discusses suicide.įor the first time in far too long, heavy music is back in vogue.
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