Music / Parkway Drive

Just your everyday, average metal band.

Parkway Drive is an Australian metalcore band from Byron Bay, New South Wales. Formed in 2003, they released their first full-length album, Killing with a Smile, in 2005.

Current Members:

• Winston Mccall: Vocals, (2003-)
• Jeff Ling: Lead Guitar, (2003-)
• Luke "Pig" Kilpatrick, Rhythm Guitar, (2003-)
• Jia "Pie" O'Connor, Bass, (2006-)
• Ben "Gaz" Gordon: Drums (2003-)

Former Members:

• Shaun Cash: Bass, (2004-2006)
• Brett Versteeg: Bass, (2003-2004)

Discography:

• Killing with a Smile (2005)
• Horizons (2007)
• Deep Blue (2010)
• Atlas (2012)
• Ire (2015)
• Reverence (2018)
• Darker Still (2022)

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Parkway Drive's songs provides examples of:

• Anti-Love Song: "Romance Is Dead", just in case you didn't figure it out by the name.
• Badass Boast: Wild Eyes:
  "We are the diamonds that choose to stay coal
  A generation born to witness the end of the world"
  • Combined with Angrish in "Wishing Wells": "TONIGHT I'M KILLING GODS"
• Broken Pedestal: "Idols and Anchors".
• Concept Album: Deep Blue, telling the story of a man's journey as he gets dragged into the depths of the ocean, finds out the truth and eventually returns to the surface to destroy everything he once believed in.
• Determinator: "Karma" is all about this.
  "Clarity unfolds"
  "A moments calm in the eye of the storm"
  "Relentless, I surge onward"
  "Surfacing"
  "No regrets, no second chance"
  "Nothing will hold me back"
  • "Vice Grip" and "Wild Eyes" too, to some extent. Both of them even have a few bits from "Karma", the former even takes it's name from that song ("A body locked in the vice grip of conflict") and the latter has "no regrets".
• Driven to Suicide: Strongly implied at the end of "Blue and the Grey".
• Green Aesop: Many songs talk about this, most blatantly being the topic of Dark Days.
• Harsh Vocals: One of the few metalcore bands that exclusively uses harshes, though Reverence has a few cleans and spoken word segments.
• Metalcore: Australia's biggest export of the genre, and arguably one of the faces of metalcore in the 2000s and 2010s.
• New Sound Album: Ire and especially Reverence go into more of a arena rock direction with traces of nu-metal, though both albums can be comfortably labeled as metalcore.
• Power Ballad: "Carrion", "A Deathless Song" and "Shadow Boxing".
  • "The River" and "Blue and the Grey" from Atlas to a lesser extent, as they have very heavy riffs to contrast the melodic parts, but otherwise they still fit.
• Switching P.O.V.: "The River" switches from the point of view of the titular river and the protaginist's loved one.

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