If there were any questions over whether Parkway might be softening their attack album-on-album, the opening track to Reverence quickly laid them to rest. Hitting pace like a tornado making landfall, Karma has become notorious for inciting outright chaos in the live arena in the years since release.
Hopping back and forth between searing metallic influence and more blunt-force hardcore inflection via a selection of razorblade melodies, it is the ultimate accompaniment to an uncompromisingly cathartic message. An increasingly mature reckoning on the war within was a huge part of that, maintaining the emotional heft to make a truly deep impact as waves of overwhelming riffage and poignant vocal delivery crashed into our ears. Bursting into life with a hail of buzzing riffage before piling through a whole range of tempo-shifts, it feels like a showcase of just how many ways Parkway have of stoving in our skulls.
The gut-lurching breakdown that hits around the 1 : 50 mark rocks listeners off our axis before another 60 seconds later finishes us off with all the subtlety of being hit by an 18 -wheeler.
With Prey, Parkway Drive set out to write an anthem and, boy, did they succeed. Condemning the modern obsession with worshipping self-destructive behaviour, its message is just as hard-hitting.
Vice Grip was an outrageously divisive cut on release. Parkway have undeniably come into their own in the second half of their career, building on and broadening out that metalcore template into something capable of taking the whole world by storm.
Their lines are finished. Literally the day we got that news we were playing a festival. We had to step onstage, and my thoughts were that this is one more show than he got. I saw how much he cared about music. I saw how much he cared about music to the degree of him flying home on tours to get surgery, to get fucking cancer cut out of his leg, and then coming back with staples so that he could keep fucking playing.
To stand onstage after getting that news and know the finality of it? Let alone just being… here. Have you been able to alchemise that into resilience — the will to continue? The immediate aftermath is devastation and survival. It redefines what reality is for you. It reshapes and remoulds the person you are. They would have liked this, so you should like this.
You should be present. Every time. Every single time. And it stays. It stays there forever and every time that song comes around I open the jar and that firefly comes out for that second and burns. As a marker of achievement, does something like headlining Bloodstock give you cause to reflect and to possibly even look towards the future? At this point in time we want it to burn brighter.
We have the desire to share this with more people. We want this to grow. You put us on any stage on the planet and we will make people remember it. Words: Kiran Acharya. Photos: Andy Ford. View this post on Instagram. Interview originally published in March But if you blend it with something bold like a Dual Rec or a , you get this perfect tone.
The members point to early producer Adam Dutkiewicz, also the co-founding member of metalcore legends Killswitch Engage, as someone who showed them just how far the definition of tight performances stretched, setting the bar high indeed. In many ways, that metronomic thunder became their most prized effect of all.
Ling is the first to admit the more toys he has to play with, the more it would disrupt and convolute his feel for his instrument…. The sweeping wahs heard on opening track and lead single Wishing Wells came from the same box as their amp sounds, while the high-pitched synth-sounding tracks on Absolute Power are not the work of an Electro-Harmonix POG-replicating setting, but actually background noise….
Most of the effects were in the Kemper, like the wah, or in Pro-Tools. It could be anything - the sound of a bird farting or any sound imaginable.
Kilpatrick interjects with a devilish grin on his face. As for playing, I just play what I learn. This is a band.
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