![]() Footage of McCall breaking down shortly after Searle’s passing is one of the most prominent. It was the one of four, which didn’t end up with me completely breaking down.”įans would be forgiven for being shocked by the turn. So it was one scratchy demo guitar the strings that we put down and that vocal take. It ended up that we wanted it to carry the weight and the emotion of the time. It didn’t even get pre-produced we were in the studio and we didn’t know what the music was but we knew that’s how the album ended. It just happened that they came together to make this piece which sat there as words. I just put them down and I knew I wanted to use the words because they meant a lot about how defining those times were. ![]() That’s where my brain went as some sort of coping process. It was just two sets of words I wrote because they were there in my head for whatever reason. The other half of the song was written right after our friend Tom passed away. The colour of leaving is the colour that the sky was at that point in time. “ I wrote half the lyrics after my dog passed away from cancer and literally watching that being leave the body that it was in … Then I had to bury him. His voice goes quiet as he takes a pause. I wrote half the lyrics after my dog passed away from cancer and literally watching that being leave the body that it was in … Then I had to bury him. It reflects who we are, and where we are mentally and personally. “Every album we write, we write over a long period of time. ![]() “The albums are a snapshot in time,” he says. But the normally happy go lucky smile fades, and suddenly the singer is sobered. There haven’t been any signs of anything going wrong from all accounts in the past few years. It’s easy to think this is just a pretence of honesty in fiction a piece cleverly written from the perspective of someone who isn’t in the prime of his career. The album’s closer is a haunting spoken word piece that barely features anything else but McCall questioning why death has to take a friend so early. Simply from a personal standpoint there were things we were doing and sounds that we wanted to approach and use, and we said ‘screaming just ain’t gonna work over this.’ If you want it to hit the mark and be true and honest, you have to go in a different direction to find something that works. It wasn’t like we suddenly decided on it and went ‘oh fuck, this is really good’. So when I went into the studio I just sang it. The vocal melody for Shadow Boxing had been there for a year and I would go through it over and over. We wanted it to be as clear a representation of who we were as possible which meant that these passages and different techniques and sounds … it simply meant finding what was needed for that area of the song. This time around the nature of the material necessitated a character within the vocals that wasn’t screaming basically. “When it came to the melody we still wrote the guitar melody and put any melody I put into the vocals to the guitar. I never stretched, I never warmed up I just got on stage and went ‘ blah!’ ”Ĭontinuing on, McCall says that previous record Ire served as the first step towards figuring out a completely different sound for their future. So I started learning how to sing and learnt everything I could about being a vocalist. I couldn’t sing because I would’ve shredded my vocal chords. I hadn’t learnt any singing technique up until that point in time because I’d just assumed that A. “At the ten year mark I got my vocal chords checked out to see if everything was all good. We ask how he managed to build up to actually singing on this record. Sitting in Melbourne with vocalist Winston McCall, it’s very clear there’s something off. We take the worst and harness it to make our lives better. ![]() That’s the narrative we get in the face of adversity. Their new record Reverence came with the monstrous first single Wishing Wells complete with the declaration: “Tonight I’m killing gods.” Fans would be forgiven for thinking the record would be about standing tall, about harnessing anger and unleashing it for something good. MORE: Dead Of Winter Festival: Drop Mammoth Second Line-Up Announcement But for Parkway Drive, the past three years have been a living hell. Playing to tens of thousands of people across the world, their most successful album to date and a sold out ten year anniversary tour of a beloved album would suggest that.
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