THE END OF PARKWAY DRIVE? (Winston McCall interview) | The Punk Rock MBA Podcast
Winston McCall of Parkway Drive talks about “Getting Heavy: How Parkway Drive turned to therapy to save the band”, the new …
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Winston McCall of Parkway Drive talks about “Getting Heavy: How Parkway Drive turned to therapy to save the band”, the new …
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Ill just come out and say it but im a literal fangirl (im a 27 yr old man) for Parkway Drive.
Since i was a kid and getting into the "Metal/ hardocore" scene in the mid 2000's , they always stuck out and reasonated with me heavily.
Then after watching the documentaries on youtube year after year i somehow LOVED them even more somehow.
Basically pardon my life story , im a huge fan and they are so well deserving of their spotlight.
My key takeway is Winston's outright acknowledgement of the seperation betweent their different phases of music. He understands why certain fans love the old music vs the new music.
Carrion got me into them. Hate to say it but PW was the first band that got me into heavy vocals. Lyric videos made me appreciate them much more as well as their cohesive band mentality in their beginning days. The fact that they didn’t drink or do drugs and we’re all basically surfers from a small Australian town. Dead Mans Chest was my first favorite song by then and still us. Simple and ungodly heavy. Jeff and I are the same age and cut from the same cloth. I’ve written a lot of music and have always liked them
The issue with Parkway is their extreme DIY attitude. You can't have a bandmate who's also the manager or producer. You need that outside third person perspective to mediate drama without bias.
Parkway was the soundtrack to my high school years more than a decade ago, remember driving around pissed off at everything listening to Killing With a Smile, Amazing Band and i support them with whatever decision they make. I've gone on to recommend them to people much younger than me who are into metal and have yet to meet someone to come back to me that hasnt said,
" I Love Parkway Drive"
27:30, a great example is the band "evanescence", they made the album "Fallen" which was A Diamond and then everything else is not on the samee level and i think it is because the whole original line up who got them there, they left…
At 10 seconds Finn looks like the older smaller brother about to watch his big little brother get whooped.😂🎉
We Fucking love Winston! Great interview! ❤
Hopefully it's the end although it should gave ended after Atlas. Their last 2 albums have been pathetic. Winston a cool guy though always will be but yes end Parkway it's a shell of it's former self
Im sorry, I really am, and as i write this comment in an old PWD shirt, i have to disagree with Winston here. Im so happy the band fixed internal issues and continues to love one another, im so happy for their success in life, and im happy theyre still a thingand doing things THEY like to do. However, im entitled as a former fan to feel sad when the essence of what got me to listen to them sonically is now gone. If Winston's position that theyve moved sounds and sorry but go listen to someone else, thats why i came to them in the first place. Everyone else was buttrock and generic. PWD did it the loudest, the hardest and the best in the MC genre. Im allowed to feel disappointed when my idols turned their back on what made them great and in my own opinion (cuz those count for so much, i know) turned their backs on us in exchange for further success. Ill always remember 2013 in Springfield, Virginia at Empire, when i surfed onto the stage and shook Winston's hand, ill always have fond memories of them, but I cannot support this new sound. Sorry for the negativity.
Love this episode on parkway drive
Sad this band fell off so hard. Went from hardcore/metalcore gods to butt rock arena sell outs. Each album after Atlas just got worse and worse. Soul Bleach literally the only good song on the new album
Winston’s the best because he basically give ls his interviewers the whole day if they take it. I reckon you could get him to chat until bed time. 🤙
Would love to see a collab with you and Nik Nocturnal sometime
i was at cardiff in october and i have loved you guys since 2005 when carrion played i was the dude on the balcony the only one who stood up with hands in the air front center of stage nearly crying cause i said to my partner next to me hearing that one song live would mean the world to me. what im trying to say is i love everything that you have put out and i love that you guys are getting on better. but your music is a staple in my life and i just hope you keep makeing moor thankyou for the cardif show and thankyou for saveing my life. <3
I haven't been into these guys since Atlas since they changed their sound so much. KWAS, Horizons, and Deep Blue are still some of my favorite albums ever. I wish they kept the same intensity but thats just me. I am not into the rammstein style they have taken.
Winston's ability to elaborate on how his music relates to his fans, and why it relates to them in that way, is unparalleled. I haven't heard anyone explain their music in this way. Great dude.
I disagree, that's not why people support them, its not because of likability….. maybe for some. You haven't really listened if that was your take away. The lyrics, technicality, the nature of their music, is very special and unique. Its soul filled, it's not really wordable. Sit quietly and listen to horizons, every album that came out was heightened in some kind of conciousness, when it got to deep blue, you could just Bury me there….
They are the best, them being friendly isn't the reason.
Deep blue is my heart.
Been listening for 12 years now, still can't get through an album without crying, and getting extremely inspired.
I'm so nervous to meet them, ahhhhhh.
Amazing band . Amazing humans
Australian fan here, been listening to Parkway since Horizons and been to a lot of their gigs. It's crazy seeing how the same guys you saw in tiny little dive bars that don't even exist anymore in Melbourne are now headlining festivals. It's also crazy how fifteen years later, there hasn't been this big diva transformation from who they were to these arrogant drugged up rockstars. Parkway are real ones.
Parkway are my favourite band but Winston looks just anxious and worn out almost like he mentally is crumbling and doesn't look like he can do this much anymore
This band is just something else. The fact that just couple of surf kids touring their asses off in a van, playing wherever they could all over the world came to be one of the headliners on metal festivals. I remember when they had their first show in my country there were like 50 people at the show, and then some year and a half they came back and that same venue was packed that you couldn't even fit a needle inside.
I got to meet Winston a few nights ago on Ship-Rocked and he is genuinely the sweetest person I think I've ever met. Just so chill but happy at the same time and seemed to genuinely enjoy talking to everyone who came up to him. I'm not even a huge metal fan (ended up being dragged onto the ship after a family member passing) and I won't lie Parkway had me headbanging. Overall just a great guy and would love to meet him again
Darker Still is a fucking masterpiece, that is all.
Winston gets too much shit for a frontman. He’s a human and lukewarm PWD fans treated him like shit for the most recent record.
Parkway Drive as a whole is such an humble group of guys. Given their achievement and status they still were "just that band" back in the day.
Gotta luv this humans.
On something extremely trivial….Going to push back on the last part about Byron, this has been a place for the wealthy for a long time. This didn’t happen just before Covid, so I’m not sure why he said that. Also, I work at one of the dive shops he is talking about 😂
Traveling 6 hours in two weeks to see them for the first time in New York!
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Growing up in Australia in the mid 00s, Parkway were massive massive in the underground metal scene, all of the metal kids would talk about how great they were in school. Good times!
The guys are one of the best live bands going, I see them every time they tour
he's literally Buzz Lightyear