Parkway Drive (AUS)

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Parkway Drive - Ire (2015)











Year : 2015
Style : Metalcore
Country : Australia
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 112 mb

Bio:

Parkway Drive is an Australian metalcore band from Byron Bay, New South Wales, formed in 2003.As of 2015, Parkway Drive has released five full-length albums (Killing with a Smile, Horizons, Deep Blue, Atlas and Ire), one EP, two DVDs, a split album and one book, Ten Years of Parkway Drive. The band's latest four albums have reached the top 10 of the Australian ARIA Charts, with Ire reaching number 1 in October 2015.Horizons was released on 6 October 2007. The album was generally acclaimed by critics and fans alike; especially Blunt Magazine, 'simply slays from the get go'and awarded it 10/10, and planet-loud.com, which suggested that it would 'set the benchmark for metal albums to come'. It debuted at number 6 on the ARIA Charts.

Album:

Ire is the fifth studio album by Australian metalcore band Parkway Drive. The album was released on 25 September 2015, through Resist Records and Epitaph Records,and was streamed online on 20 September. It has been described (by both the band and reviewers) as changing the band's established metalcore style in favour of new heavy metal influences.Ire was announced on 8 June 2015, when the first song from the album, "Vice Grip", was released, accompanied by a music video.On 24 August, Parkway Drive released a second song, "Crushed", also accompanied by a video.On 14 September, the band released a third song, "The Sound of Violence".On 20 September, the album was streamed online in its entirety.Ire marks a change from the style established on the band's previous records.In an interview with Music Feeds, frontman Winston McCall stated: "...in the past ... [when] we took the influence we had and then we put it into the context of what the Parkway Drive formula was, then that influence got mixed or buried or lost amongst the other stuff. This time around when any influence or unorthodox idea came about we simply ran with it in its whole form and tried to form a concept around that, rather than try to squash it into the pre-existing formula. That became basically the conceptual approach for making this entire record. ... When you’re playing the same style of riff, the same drumming, the same vocals and same breakdowns for ten years, what point is there in people listening to your new record or even recording one if it sounds the exact same as the last one?".The album has been described as moving "away from the shackles of 'metalcore'", as well as representing a "refreshing take on metalcore" and being "decidedly more metal than metal-core on the whole" and reminiscent of '80s metal.Connor McKenzie of Rip It Up calls Rage Against the Machine an influence on the album's direction, both musically and lyrically,with the album being centred thematically around anger as an appropriate reaction to the state of human society.Jaymz Clements of Rolling Stone Australia stated that "the epic sweep of lead single "Vice Grip", the piano-led ponderous stomp of "Writings on the Wall" and the shiny bounce of "Vicious" ... showcase a muscular power-metal edge to [Parkway Drive]."Brenton Harris of Music Feeds described "Destroyer" as showcasing "Jeff Ling and Luke Kilpatrick's harmonised classic metal riffs clashing against a ferocious backdrop", said that "Dying To Believe"'s "chaotic juxtaposition of death-metal rhythmic patterns in the verses and pit-call inciting half-time chorus hit like a napalm bomb ..., simultaneously calling to mind Lamb of God, Slayer and Slipknot" and highlighted the "nu-metal tinged stomp of 'Writings on the Wall' ... which integrates spoken-word vocals, piano and classical instrumentation".

Line Up:

Winston McCall – vocals
Jeffrey Ling – lead guitar
Luke "Pig" Kilpatrick – rhythm guitar, bass
Jia "Pie" O'Connor – bass
Benjamin Gordon – drums

another musicians:

George Hadji-Christou – production, strings composition and arrangement
Dean Hadji-Christou – engineering
Kevin Dietz – assisting engineering
Peter Rutcho – mixing
Ted Jensen – mastering
Callum Preston – artwork
Greg Weeks – cello, strings composition and arrangement
Tim Millar – piano
Christian Vachon – violin
Maria Demacheva – violin

Tracklist:

01. Destroyer
02. Dying To Believe
03. Vice Grip
04. Crushed
05. Fractures
06. Writings On The Wall
07. Bottom Feeder
08. The Sound Of Violence
09. Vicious
10. Dedicated
11. A Deathless Song




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Parkway Drive - Reverence (Digipak Edition) (2018)













Year : 2018
Style : Melodic Metalcore, Alternative Metal, Nu Metal
Country : Australia
Audio : 320 kbps + scans + Video
Size : 163 mb

Bio:

Parkway Drive is an Australian metalcore band from Byron Bay, New South Wales, formed in 2003.As of 2015, Parkway Drive has released five full-length albums (Killing with a Smile, Horizons, Deep Blue, Atlas and Ire), one EP, two DVDs, a split album and one book, Ten Years of Parkway Drive. The band's latest four albums have reached the top 10 of the Australian ARIA Charts, with Ire reaching number 1 in October 2015.Horizons was released on 6 October 2007. The album was generally acclaimed by critics and fans alike; especially Blunt Magazine, 'simply slays from the get go'and awarded it 10/10, and planet-loud.com, which suggested that it would 'set the benchmark for metal albums to come'. It debuted at number 6 on the ARIA Charts.

Album:

To say big things are expected from Byron Bay metallers Parkway Drive and their new album Reverence is an understatement. Rumour has it the band are planning an elaborate stage show to take out on the road and, even ahead of the release of their new offering, the band are gracing the covers of the major metal press. So is this the sound of the record industry hype machine spitting out more poor victims or are Parkway Drive really the future of heavy music? Well, Reverence has been spinning for over a week now and sees the band shifting further away from their brutal metalcore roots with an album that has already been mentioned in the same breath as bands like Five Finger Death Punch. Reverence kicks off in barnstorming fashion with the thunderous “Wishing Wells” a track which pretty much epitomises what Parkway Drive do really well - hooky riffs, easy to digest lyrics and the compulsory floor-shaking breakdown. From there on in, it seems that Parkway Drive have decided that massive sounding arena metal is the way to go. “Prey” and “The Void” are both thunderous slabs of modern metal that the masses will simply lap up with the latter in particular revealing where those Five Finger Death Punch comparisons are coming from.Throughout the album, frontman Winston Mccall switches gracefully between belly rumbling roars, melodic vocals and emotional spoken word passages to a soundtrack filled with the kind of hook-drenched melodies that European metal bands have been churning out for a long time now. Reverence signs off with Mccall pouring his heart out into the three-minute spoken word track “The Colour Of Leaving”. It’s just one more example of how these Byron Bay favourites have bravely cast off the shackles with Reverence and, while the album might be that one could best be summed up as a “grower”, Reverence is ultimately worth your patience.

Line Up:

Winston McCall – lead vocals
Jeff Ling – lead guitar
Luke "Pig" Kilpatrick – rhythm guitar
Jia "Pie" O'Connor – bass guitar
Ben "Gaz" Gordon – drums

Tracklist:

01. Wishing Wells
02. Prey
03. Absolute Power
04. Cemetery Bloom
05. The Void
06. I Hope You Rot
07. Shadow Boxing
08. In Blood
09. Chronos
10. The Colour of Leaving

+ Video "Prey" (Official Video)




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Parkway Drive - Darker Still (2022)













Year : 2022
Style : Melodic Metalcore, Alternative Metal, Nu Metal
Country : Australia
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 112 mb

Bio:

Parkway Drive is an Australian metalcore band from Byron Bay, New South Wales, formed in 2003.As of 2015, Parkway Drive has released five full-length albums (Killing with a Smile, Horizons, Deep Blue, Atlas and Ire), one EP, two DVDs, a split album and one book, Ten Years of Parkway Drive. The band's latest four albums have reached the top 10 of the Australian ARIA Charts, with Ire reaching number 1 in October 2015.Horizons was released on 6 October 2007. The album was generally acclaimed by critics and fans alike; especially Blunt Magazine, 'simply slays from the get go'and awarded it 10/10, and planet-loud.com, which suggested that it would 'set the benchmark for metal albums to come'. It debuted at number 6 on the ARIA Charts.

Album:

Darker Still is the seventh studio album by Australian metalcore band Parkway Drive. It was released on 9 September 2022 through Resist and Epitaph Records. The album was produced by George Hadji-Christou.Since Parkway Drive stunned the metal world in 2015 with their mid-career renaissance Ire, the Aussie heavyweights have been on a journey of evolution and expansion, with 2018 follow-up Reverence taking their bruising metalcore into more emotional and experimental realms. Now, on their seventh full-length outing, the Byron Bay brutes have taken yet another small step toward their final form, and one giant leap into the abyss.As the title suggests, darkness bubbles and oozes throughout the record like a putrid pus. Speaking to Kerrang! this summer, frontman Winston McCall says the overarching theme of Darker Still is one of “a person reaching a point in their life where they’re confronted with an event that tears down and destroys everything about them in terms of their perception of self, where they stand in the world, their beliefs, everything… And then you have to walk through this journey, through the darkness to rediscover who you are, and where you stand in the world.”It’s clear from the off that he’s not talking about a nervous walk down a shady alleyway with your keys in your hand, but wading through pitch-black tar, reckoning with the unbearable nightmare of being. Rather than wallowing in the misery however, it’s an eleven-track tale of resilience, an uprising, and standing tall in the face of all that life can throw at you.Opening with a twinkle and a fragile, exposed Winston on Ground Zero, it swiftly changes gear to one of defiance, as the frontman urges his band to ‘drop the beat’ and a bouncing, anthemic melee ensues, replete with fist-pumping riffs and a joyous, swashbuckling chorus. Throw in a breakdown for the mosh goblins and a side order of swooping ‘whoooas’ and it’s difficult to imagine Parkway sounding bigger than they do here.Diving straight into the circle pit fodder of Like Napalm (which is destined for a new fiery onstage set-piece), buoyed by a bellow-along chorus and chugging chaos, every single cylinder is firing at dangerous levels. And when single Glitch speeds into view, exploring experiences of insomnia and depression, gilded with jaunty guitar lines and While She Sleeps-esque gang vocals, this is Parkway at their peak.The Greatest Fear, however, takes things in a different direction, introducing organs and an almost angelic mood, before the galloping Iron Maiden riffs swoop in and an almost Rob Zombie-ish groove to the verses, as we hear about the ‘hymns of nevermore’ and replace pulpits with mosh-pits. Yet the purest example of Parkway’s drive to reinvent themselves is the title-track and album centrepiece, an almost-seven-minute ballad built on foundations of acoustic guitars and whistling, while Winston channels his inner Nick Cave. Neither track hits quite as hard as you hope, but Darker Still’s eerie textures adds more depth to the album than any metalcore track ever could.To that point, Imperial Heretic, feels a bit by-numbers by comparison, and the outlier as the least-inspired track on the record. Soul Bleach gets things back to business with rapid-fire riffs and neck-snapping pace, similar to modern-era Slipknot in its delivery, as Winston gets wilfully more aggressive and murdery, and Land Of The Lost’s ‘Keep diggin’ the hole down deeper’ hook is among the most infectious on the entire LP.Closing on headbanger’s dream From The Heart Of Darkness, with its tribal, battle-ready intro to the grunting guitars and its snarling ‘I took a walk last night through the valley of death’, the pounding heaviness is a distillation of the rebellion and resistance coursing through Darker Still’s veins. Parkway went through hell making this record and they’ve got the scars to prove it, but they made it out alive to continue their rocket-powered trajectory. These songs of strength survival aren’t platitudes, they’re promises.

Line Up:

Winston McCall – lead vocals
Jeff Ling – lead guitar
Luke "Pig" Kilpatrick – rhythm guitar
Jia "Pie" O'Connor – bass guitar
Ben "Gaz" Gordon – drums

Additional musicians:

Gordon Hamilton – choir arrangement, conduction, orchestral arrangements, organ
John Rotar – choir conduction
Chady Awad, Ramon Ortiz and Maxim Pike – vocals
Pierre Bouvier and Molly Lewis – whistle

Additional personnel:

George Hadji-Christou – production, vocals, bass, guitar, synthesizers, programming, composition
Dean Hadji-Christou, Andreas Wiedenhoff and David Spearritt – engineering
Reinert Wasserman and Stewart Geddes – engineering assistant
Zakk Cervini – mixing
Nik Trekov – mixing assistant
Ted Jensen – mastering
Dan Strong – drum technician
Hedi Xandt – artwork, layout

Tracklist:

01. Ground Zero
02. Like Napalm
03. Glitch
04. The Greatest Fear
05. Darker Still
06. Imperial Heretic
07. If A God Can Bleed
08. Soul Bleach
09. Stranger
10. Land Of The Lost
11. From The Heart Of The Darkness




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