Australian Metalcore band PARKWAY DRIVE, has released a music video for the title track of their upcoming album “Darker Still”, which will be out on September 9th through Epitaph Records.
The song is unlike anything you’ve previously heard from PARKWAY DRIVE – it’s a monumental song in scope, with career-defining performances all around. “Darker Still” creeps to life with a whistle and an acoustic guitar. From here – for close to seven minutes – the band takes the listener on a sweeping odyssey through guitar solos, ethereal choirs and strings, and a surprising vocal performance from McCall.
Winston McCall comments on the song: “Love. Time. Death. The great defining elements that make up our existence. This song begins with the simplest of human sounds and represents these elements as the musical journey grows to reach its souring crescendo before facing the inevitable conclusion of its journey. The night grows dark… darker still.”
And he adds about the album: ” When PARKWAY originally started out, we all were trying to push ourselves to do more than we possibly could. What you hear on ‘Darker Still’ is the final fulfillment of our ability to learn and grow catching up with the imagination that we have always had. There are compositions and songs that we’d never attempted before – or, to be more accurate, which we have attempted in the past, but not had the courage, time or understanding to pull off.”
He also notes that the album explores the concept of the “dark night of the soul: the idea of reaching a point in your life where you are faced with a reckoning of your structure of beliefs, your sense of self and your place in the world, to a point where it’s irreconcilable with the way that you are as a person.”
Emerging from the darkness of the past few years, this is the true face of PARKWAY DRIVE – redefined and resolute, focused in mind, and defiant in spirit.
“Darker Still” track listing:
- Ground Zero
- Like Napalm
- Glitch
- The Greatest Fear
- Darker Still
- Imperial Heretic
- If a God Can Bleed
- Soul Bleach
- Stranger
- Land of the Lost
- From the Heart of the Darkness
You can watch the music video for “Darker Still” below:
