![]() ![]() “The Void” falls into this category as well, roping listeners into a dense hard rock groove spiced up with cool twin leads, before going for arena domination with its chorus: In their stead, McCall offers some of his most striking vocal hooks to date, while the two guitarists, Jeff Ling and Luke Kilpatrick, pick out melodies that would not sound out of place on one of the more recent albums by In Flames. Laced with grandiose instrumentation and sharp hooks, these tracks will be on your lips from the very first listen and seem destined to become massive hits in the live setting, even if they lack the chugs and breakdowns needed to command those intense moshpits that make watching the band live such a riveting experience. ![]() ![]() Still, there is no tiptoeing around the fact that the likes of “Wishing Wells” and “Prey” are designed to lift Parkway Drive from heavyweights of metalcore to heavyweights of metal. “Reverence” simply amplifies the elements that began to seep through the staccato riffs and breakdowns of its predecessor, “Ire”, three years ago, but it is not like McCall has swapped his growls for a more clean style of vocalisation, and those urgent melodies for which the Australian band is renowned are still very much present. Indeed, it would be an overstatement to claim that traces of metalcore no longer exist in the music. This phenomenon has especially taken root in the metalcore genre in recent years, and with “Reverence”, Parkway Drive is certainly queuing up to exchange its old robes for a more fashionable wardrobe as well, albeit the transformation not being as total nor as disappointing as what happened to the likes of Bring Me the Horizon and Underoath on their respective latest albums. Although it is true that artists need be afforded the license to grow and evolve rather than subscribe to a fan’s square idea of what they should sound like, all too often that growth and evolution merely translates to maximising mainstream appeal at the expense of nearly everything that attracted people to the music in the first place. In the weeks leading up to the release of “Reverence”, Parkway Drive’s vocalist Winston McCall made a point out of declaring that the band had ‘outgrown metalcore’ and thus sparked plenty of buzz and heated discussion around their sixth studio album. ![]()
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