Talking to us in Paris on an off-day of their first tour in several years, Winston McCall is visibly happy and relieved to be back to strength with a bold new record that can be celebrated for the ambitious spirit that it shows, not just that the band that made it are still kicking. The band’s evolution from local Byron Bay heroes presenting the Platonic ideal of what a dyed in the wool Australian heavy band looks like to an entity that with the release of 2020’s Viva the Underdogs film is documented as one of the few 21st century bands to headline Wacken Festival is one of modern metal’s most gratifying success stories, and yet with the COVID-19 pandemic, their journey hit a jarring stop and under the harsh light of day unearthed a whole lot of relations within the band that needed straightening out.
The headlines leading into the release of Parkway Drive’s seventh album Darker Still have very much focused on the difficult nature of its creation for the modern heavy metal titans. The Australian arena metal outfit emerge from a turbulent time with their most artistically ambitious album to date. Perran Helyes in Culture on September 27, 2022
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