Darker Still by Parkway Drive (Record, 2022)

EPT, Epitaph

0045778789610

24055110250

2022

Record

Rock

Parkway Drive

Darker Still

0.16 in

0.81 lb

12.35 in

12.30 in

11

United States

1.1 Ground Zero 1.2 Like Napalm 1.3 Glitch 1.4 The Greatest Fear 1.5 Darker Still 1.6 Imperial Heretic 1.7 If a God Can Bleed 1.8 Soul Bleach 1.9 Stranger 1.10 Land of the Lost 1.11 From the Heart of the Darkness

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2022 release. In the kitchen of the Byron Bay home of Winston McCall stands a refrigerator, adorned on one side by a quote from Tom Waits: "I want beautiful melodies telling me terrible things." This, the Parkway Drive vocalist says, is a pretty good summation of himself. It holds true, too, as one of the guiding principles behind Darker Still, the seventh full-length album to be born of this picturesque and serene corner of north-eastern NSW, Australia, and the defining musical statement to date from one of modern metal's most revered bands. While Darker Still remains irrefutably Parkway Drive, it finds the band sonically standing shoulder to shoulder with rock and metal's greats - Metallica, Pantera, Machine Head, Guns N' Roses - as much as it does their metalcore contemporaries.