Parkway Drive: Reverence
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Parkway Drive: Reverence

The most impressive facet of Parkway Drive’s discography is their sheer ability to consistently create unique soundscapes that no one else in Australia is doing. Now embracing more of a European stadium metal sound, Parkway have yet again shattered the expected illusion of what they ‘should’ sound like.
Opening with ‘Wishing Wells,’ Reverence delivers ten entirely diverse and complex tracks that as a lifelong PWD fan left me shocked in the best possible way. With ‘Pray’ delivering an earth shattering breakdown and ‘In Blood’ being the dose of vintage Parkway that old school fans will flock too, it’s songs such as ‘I Hope You Rot’ that truly highlight the unique new sound that PWD have mastered.
Tracks such as ‘Absolute Power’ and ‘Shadow Boxing’ showcase more of a ‘nu-metal’ sound, with Winston McCall’s vocals varying from everything to screaming, singing and rapping. ‘Chronos’ highlights the extent of their sonically huge sound with visceral guitar shredding throughout the 6-minute epic whilst ‘The Colour Of Leaving’ does the opposite, being the slowest and quite possibly the most emotional song the band has ever written. Reverence is an absolute triumph of an album and shows just how much Parkway is still on top of the game.
5/5
Resist Records/ Cooking Vinyl Australia
Reviewed by Alex Callan