“We wanted to write an album opener that was anthemic and had those big riffs that you’ve come to expect from Parkway, and really captured that live energy and that bombastic feel. “This is the kind of music that always inspired us, but we’ve never had the ability-or the time-to actually create it until this record.” Below, he discusses each song. “This is the album where our ability and experience finally caught up to the imagination that we’ve had for 20 years of being a band,” he says. From Parkway Drive’s perspective, it’s also their pinnacle achievement. We write a cohesive piece of art, and this one happened to be centralized around the concept of the dark night of the soul.”Ĭonsidering that the pandemic lockdown in which the album was written was essentially a global dark night of the soul, McCall’s lyrics on Darker Still will likely resonate far and wide. “It was never designed to be a concept album, but the way we make music is always album-based.
“The album represents a journey through the darkness,” Parkway Drive lead vocalist Winston McCall tells Apple Music about the Aussie metalcore band’s seventh record.
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