Earlier this year, Byron Bay metal legends Parkway Drive’s feature-length documentary, Viva The Underdogs, was brought to life on the big screen, following the band’s 15-year journey from small-town surf-rats to international headliners on the world’s biggest metal music festivals.
With the postponing the Viva The Underdogs tour and the film soundtrack dropping just last week (taking out Metal Album Of The Week at Deezer), it seemed like the perfect time for the lads to gift us all with some free entertainment. They’ll be streaming the doco one-time-only for free via YouTube on Sunday, April 5 at 7am AEST. Yes it’s early, but it will be oh so worth it.
Packed with a decade’s worth of behind the scenes personal footage and unprecedented access to the behind the scenes of their explosive live shows and festival appearances, Viva The Underdogs offers a candid look at Parkway Drive’s journey and all the good times, battles, triumphs and sacrifices they make as they take on the music industry.
“We have always taken pride in doing things our way,” says frontman Winston McCall. “For over 15 years we have stayed true to ourselves in a world of extremes. We are not the story of shooting star super stardom, we are not the overnight breakout success, we will never be viral and we sure as hell won’t break the internet. But we have a vision, and we have lived for it, worked for it, bled for it, grown for it and broken for it. We have sacrificed everything and compromised nothing. This is an honest insight into what it takes to survive as the underdogs. Thank you for being part of the story.”
You can set a reminder at youtu.be/tNyO1s-7AZU
Check out the trailer below in the meantime.
