When you put headphones on, you pick out different chants and whispers and strange stuff going on, because essentially the song is about dealing with sleep paralysis and nightmares and insomnia. For such an accessible chorus and an accessible song, the layering that we put under it is quite creepy and unnerving. “This was one of the first songs we started working on. But the choruses still have that melody which really lifts it through the roof with Jeff ’s signature lead guitar accents, which are a real staple of the entire album.” It just goes the entire time-bang, bang, bang-and then you get about four bars of bass reprieve before it smashes you in the outro as well. This is when the groove and the rhythms of this album really start to kick in. We wanted something that just smashed from start to finish.
It’s the beginning of the spiralling process of this album.
This is the safe space before the twist around the corner.” The idea for this was to give people something that they would feel is a safe, expected Parkway sound-but improved. The choruses are lifted up in a way that we’ve probably never even hit before, in terms of it being accessible and something that will get stuck in people’s heads. “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 centralised 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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