{"product_id":"parkway-drive-darker-still-cd","title":"Parkway Drive - Darker Still [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the kitchen of the Byron Bay home of Winston McCall stands a refrigerator, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eadorned on one side by a quote from Tom Waits: “I want beautiful melodies \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etelling me terrible things.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis, the PARKWAY DRIVE vocalist says, is a pretty good summation of him-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eself. It holds true, too, as one of the guiding principles behind Darker Still, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eseventh full-length album to be born of this picturesque and serene corner of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003enorth-eastern NSW, Australia, and the defining musical statement to date from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eone of modern metal’s most revered bands.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDarker Still, McCall says, is the vision he and his bandmates – guitarists Jeff Ling and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLuke Kilpatrick, bassist Jia O’Connor and drummer Ben Gordon – have held in their \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emind’s eye since a misfit group of friends first convened in their parents’ basements and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebackyards in 2003. The journey to reach this moment has seen Parkway evolve from metal \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eunderdogs to festival-headlining behemoth, off the back of close to 20 gruelling years, six \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecritically and commercially acclaimed studio albums (all of which achieving Gold status in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etheir home nation), three documentaries, one live album, and many, many thousands of shows.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhile Darker Still remains irrefutably PARKWAY DRIVE, it finds the band sonically standing shoul\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eder to shoulder with rock and metal’s greats – Metallica, Pantera, Machine Head, Guns N’ Roses \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e– as much as it does their metalcore contemporaries. “I wanted a classic guitar tone for this record,” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eexplains Ling, who credits much of his inspiration to the connection his riffs have with a crowd in a live \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esetting. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEmerging from the darkness of the past few years, this is the true face of PARKWAY DRIVE: redefined and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eresolute, focused in mind and defiant in spirit.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGround Zero\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLike Napalm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGlitch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Greatest Fear\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDarker Still\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eImperial Heretic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIf a God Can Bleed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSoul Bleach\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStranger\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLand of the Lost\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom the Heart of the Darkness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC:\u003c\/strong\u003e 045778789627\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Epitaph\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9.9.22\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e CD\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"ShopTime Music \u0026 Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461788451074,"sku":"692878","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/9007\/7442\/files\/4113746-2852716.jpg?v=1773267103","url":"https:\/\/soundbendrecords.co\/products\/parkway-drive-darker-still-cd","provider":"Sound Bend Records ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}