Parkway Drive
| Parkway Drive | |
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 Parkway Drive at Rock am Ring , 2018. |
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| General information | |
| origin | Byron Bay (Australia) |
| Genre (s) | Metalcore |
| founding | 2003 |
| Website | www.parkwaydriverock.com |
| Current occupation | |
guitar |
Luke Kilpatrick |
guitar |
Jeff Ling |
bass |
Jia O'Connor |
singing |
Winston McCall |
Drums |
Ben Gordon |
Parkway Drive is an Australian metalcore band from Byron Bay . To date, the band has sold around 20 million records (as of December 2018) worldwide. Especially in Australia, England, the United States and Germany, the band celebrated their greatest successes with sold out tours .
history
Parkway Drive was founded in the summer of 2003. A short time later a split CD with I Killed the Prom Queen was released , and in the same year the band played on the Byron Bay hardcore compilation What We've Built .
In 2004 the first EP Don't Close Your Eyes was released on Resist Records from Sydney . In May 2005 they recorded their debut album Killing with a Smile with Adam Dutkiewicz , the guitarist of Killswitch Engage . Epitaph Records has been selling Killing with a Smile in the United States since August 2006 . Shaun Cash left Parkway Drive in late 2006 for family reasons and remained on friendly terms with the band. Jia O'Connor joined the band as a replacement. Jia had previously worked as a merchandise seller for Parkway Drive and was unable to play bass when she joined the band.
In 2007 the band released their second studio album, Horizons .
The DVD Parkway Drive was launched in mid-2009 . This contains live recordings, a live concert and background information about the band.
In April 2010 the band finished recording their next album, Deep Blue . The new song material was recorded in Los Angeles with producer Joe Barresi ( Queens of the Stone Age , Bad Religion , Tool ). The album contains 13 songs and was released on June 25, 2010. The album features a new recording of the title Hollow Man from the split CD What We've Built , which is only called Hollow on Deep Blue . Marshall Lichtenwaldt, singer in the band The Warriors , with whom Parkway Drive has already completed several tours, has a guest appearance in this song. However, Hollow should be understood as a sequel to Hollow Man . The text is completely different, but Hollow is reminiscent of the original Hollow Man in its structure and in several places .
In October 2012, Parkway Drive released their fourth studio album, Atlas . It entered the album charts at number 3 in Australia. In Germany, the album reached its highest position at number 22. The video clip Dark Days was released on September 11th. The subsequent tour led through Australia, New Zealand and Europe. Including six German cities (Hamburg, Berlin, Oberhausen, Wiesbaden, Munich, Dresden). The support on the European tour were Emmure , The Word Alive and Structures .
The album Ire was released on September 25, 2015 . A deluxe version of Ire was released on July 15, 2016, which contains two new songs ( Devil's Calling and Into The Dark ) and a remix of A Deathless Song in addition to the 11 songs already known .
After a break of almost three years, since the release of Ire , the album Reverence was released on May 4, 2018 and entered the top 5 of the German album charts and stayed there for several weeks.
On March 27, 2020, the soundtrack of the same name for the previously released film Viva the Underdogs was released . In addition to live recordings of the performance from Wacken 2019, this also includes three remixed versions of the previous album Reverence in German.
style
Parkway Drive are known for their numerous and hard breakdowns , the use of solos and the renunciation of the Metalcore-typical clean vocals, which can only be found in a few old songs and completely disappeared from the album Killing with a Smile . When asked whether they play hard or metalcore, singer Winston McCall said that the sound fits more into the metalcore scheme, but that he feels part of the hardcore scene and has never had much to do with metal. Since the 2015 album Ire , the band's style has moved away from pure metalcore and has become more complex.
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- Parkway Drive, live on the With Full Force 2018
Singer Winston McCall
Lead guitarist Jeff Ling
Rhythm guitarist Luke Kilpatrick
Bass player Jia O'Connor
Discography
Studio albums
| year | Title music label |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes) |
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 CH
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| 2005 | Killing with a Smile Epitaph Records |
- | - | - | - | - |
AU39 (1 week) AU |
First published: September 12, 2005
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| 2007 | Horizons Epitaph Records |
- | - | - | - | - |
AU6 (3 weeks) AU |
First published: October 6, 2007
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| 2010 | Deep Blue Epitaph Records |
DE46 (1 week) DE |
AT68 (1 week) AT |
CH84 (1 week) CH |
- |
US39 (2 weeks) US |
AU2  (6 weeks)AU |
First published: June 25, 2010
Sales: + 35,000 |
| 2012 | Atlas Epitaph Records |
DE22 (2 weeks) DE |
AT33 (1 week) AT |
CH57 (1 week) CH |
UK48 (2 weeks) UK |
US32 (2 weeks) US |
AU3 (4 weeks)AU |
First published: October 26, 2012
Sales: + 35,000 |
| 2015 | Irish Epitaph Records |
DE8 (2 weeks) DE |
AT11 (1 week) AT |
CH12 (1 week) CH |
UK23 (1 week) UK |
US29 (2 weeks) US |
AU1 (4 weeks)AU |
First published: September 25, 2015
Sales: + 35,000 |
| 2018 | Reverence Epitaph Records |
DE3 (11 weeks) DE |
AT6 (8 weeks) AT |
CH3 (6 weeks) CH |
UK14 (1 week) UK |
US35 (1 week) US |
AU1 (8 weeks) AU |
First published: May 4, 2018
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Compilations
- 2003: What We've Built
Soundtracks
| year | Title music label |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes) |
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DE
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AT
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CH
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| 2020 | Viva the Underdogs Epitaph Records |
DE5 (... weeks) DE |
AT19 (1 week) AT |
CH22 (1 week) CH |
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First published: March 27, 2020
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EPs, splits and singles
- 2003: Split CD ( Split - EP with I Killed the Prom Queen )
- 2004: Don't Close Your Eyes (EP)
- 2005: Smoke 'Em If You Got' Em (single)
- 2015: Vice Grip (single)
- 2015: Crushed (single)
- 2018: Wishing Wells (single)
- 2018: The Void (single)
- 2018: Prey (single)
Video albums
- 2009: Parkway Drive
- 2012: Home Is for the Heartless
Web links
- Official website (English)
- Parkway Drive at laut.de
- Parkway Drive at Allmusic (English)
- Parkway Drive at Discogs (English)
- Chart sources: DE / AT / CH / UK / US AU * Awards: AU
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.allschools.de/tag/parkway-drive
- ↑ http://www.laut.de/Parkway-Drive/Deep-Blue-(Album)
- ↑ http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=84367
- ↑ FestivalsUnited.com: Parkway Drive Tour 2012. Accessed March 24, 2020 .
- ↑ http://www.metal-hammer.de/live/praesentationen/article329383/tour-des-monats-november-2012-parkway-drive-support.html
- ↑ Parkway Drive with a new live album; Winston sings in German now. In: MoreCore.de. January 23, 2020, accessed on January 25, 2020 (German).