Whatever pedestal I’m on, on that big old stage, I’m just a person. The frontman is the icon of engagement, which is a very hard thing to bear. ‘I’m the most ambitious person in this band’ … Winston McCall performs with Parkway Drive at Manchester Apollo in 2019. Darker Still sounds like going to battle McCall describes its arc as being based around “the dark night of the soul”. Reverence tackled grief, in response to the band experiencing a few deaths at close quarters. While their music – “metalcore”, though it’s become increasingly melodic and theatrical – was always heavy, it was getting exponentially darker in mood. Obviously, as McCall points out, that wasn’t a fluke. Their last album, 2018’s Reverence, debuted at No 1 in Australia, and all of their six previous studio albums have been Aria-certified gold. But years later, when global success arrived, they were still harbouring that attitude. When they first formed in 2003, Parkway Drive were all about creating a mosh for their mates a bunch of loose-unit surfers who joked about being lucky idiots who couldn’t play their instruments. It just wasn’t acknowledged because you’d be scared that you’d be called a wanker.” There’s been passion and calculation in everything we’ve done. “We didn’t acknowledge any of our success or our ability. “We’ve grown up in the band with a concept of ‘if everyone is nothing then we’re all equal’ – so rather than lift each other up we just tore each other down,” he says. ‘I’ve had people very close to me and very far, who see me as a villain’ … Winston McCall. So it seems odd that record companies haven’t taken note when even sporting organisations now have wellbeing initiatives. As it turned out, Some Kind of Monster was so pivotal in opening conversations about mental health in the music industry that, rather than being a cringeworthy moment in Metallica’s story, the film was rereleased 10 years later with bonus material. At the time, it seemed unfathomable that such a band – afforded godlike status by millions – would choose to reveal the mess that lay beneath. It’s nearly two decades since the release of the Metallica documentary Some Kind of Monster, which followed the heavy metal behemoths into group therapy. Whatever pedestal I’m on, on that big old stage, I’m just a person … I still put my pants on one leg at a time Winston McCall Instead of touring, frontman McCall, guitarists Jeff Ling and Luke Kilpatrick, bassist Jia O’Connor and drummer Ben Gordon began regular sessions with a counsellor in a neighbouring town to their native Byron Bay. “We feel the limit has been reached and we don’t want to fuck this up,” they wrote. A Facebook post went up in April, announcing they were cancelling their US tour ahead of their new, seventh album Darker Still. Overdrive will bring you more info as it happens.At a crisis point like this in a mammoth band’s trajectory, at least two members usually throw down the gauntlet and launch solo careers. It’s given us a focus and drive we’ve never had when it comes to pursuing new sounds, and it was nice to see the validation that you could grow as a band, and still stay heavy, which is perfect for us.” “ Creating something that follows that success means stepping out of a great shadow, but the confidence in ourselves and our craft following Ire has been far more liberating than anything we have felt before. The success that has come out of it has been amazing it opened so many doors for us and we couldn’t be happier with the risks we took,” he said. We were very careful with the evolution of our sound, but at the same time we had no idea where it was actually leading us. “ With Ire, we were basically walking a tightrope in the dark. Speaking about their upcoming album earlier this year, frontman Winston McCall said the group are “ upping our game” for their next release. Parkway Drive released their latest album Ire in 2015. Overdrive has the first new track off the album ‘Wishing Wells’! What are you waiting for?Īussie metalcore crew Parkway Drive are currently recording their sixth studio album, and they’ve just unleashed ‘Wishing Well’s, get the full track below: Parkway Drive have been busy laying down the material for their new album which is due for release later this year. NEW PARKWAY DRIVE TRACK ‘WISHING WELLS’ STREAMING HERE!
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