NewsSeptember 11, 2012 12:11 PM ET7,044 views

Parkway Drive announces new album, debuts video

Official press release: Australian metal masters, Parkway Drive are poised for world domination as one of the most significant purveyors of heavy music on Earth with their enthralling fourth album, Atlas, which is ready for release via Epitaph Records on October 30th along with a deluxe package that includes the "Home Is For The Heartless" DVD, a unique travelogue that follows the band's adventures touring to many obscure destinations including Colombia, China and India. The announcement comes as the band unleashes a brand new video for the debut track "Dark Days" which can viewed here: Yet another creative leap forward for the chart-topping Australian band, Atlas boasts some of the most up front and confrontational material Parkway Drive has ever released, while at the same time taking several unexpected turns into lush sonic terrain, redefining their trademark sound while reinforcing their position as leaders in their field. Recorded in Los Angeles with esteemed producer Matt Hyde (Slayer, Hatebreed, etc.), the soon-to-be-released Atlas sets the standard in musical progression by pushing musical boundaries and drawing from a wider scope of influence. From heavy, technically advanced riffs and rapid fire blast beats, to haunting death growls combined with fervent vocals and symphonic melodies, Atlas's ferocious mix of metal and hardcore reaches new horizons with songs such as "Dark Days," "Old Ghost / New Regrets" and "The River," all of which will have fans careening straight for the circle pit. "Everything has been enhanced," says Parkway vocalist Winston McCall. "People don't have to kiss the old parts goodbye. When you think of change, you think of things being taken away, but there's not a case here where anything has been taken away. This is just more on top." The new record is positioned to be the most highly anticipated heavy album of the year and follows 2010's phenomenally successful Deep Blue, which debuted #39 in the US on the Billboard 200, #2 in Australia, as well as reaching solid Gold and winning the ARIA Award for Best Hard Rock and Metal Album and has since built steadfast momentum as a result of a groundswell of fan support in the US. Building on a record that was regarded as "not just a landmark album for themselves, [but] a milestone album for modern metal, ( Metal Hammer)," Atlas cements Parkway Drive as the world's most hardcore musical superpower. "Atlas is a culmination of ten years," says McCall. "Ten years of Parkway Drive, ten years of travel, ten years of being alive and watching our world spiral out of control. We're not holding anything back, we're not pulling any punches, and this world deserves nothing less."

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cgrind3000 9/11/2012 9:20:14 AM

FIRST!1!!1! *gooes all over keyboard*

anonymous 9/11/2012 9:24:37 AM

World domination, Beavis.. World domination..

anonymous 9/11/2012 9:28:28 AM

YES!! Can not fcking wait. Please come to Florida soon!!!

anonymous 9/11/2012 9:33:42 AM

I am stoked. Awesome band. ^ agree with this guy, come to florida

anonymous 9/11/2012 9:48:58 AM

awesome

anonymous 9/11/2012 9:59:56 AM

Sooooo sick

anonymous 9/11/2012 10:05:59 AM

GENERIC BALOGNA

anonymous 9/11/2012 10:26:33 AM

parkway drive > everything

anonymous 9/11/2012 11:04:36 AM

whoa.. liking this shit right here

xburnfacex 9/11/2012 11:09:07 AM

gay shit. No care.

anonymous 9/11/2012 11:18:21 AM

band sucks. generic metalcore. throw another shrimp on the barbie gays.

anonymous 9/11/2012 11:22:35 AM

Kangaroos cannot jump backwards

anonymous 9/11/2012 11:23:01 AM

guitar players running in circles, pit stains, and submarines are stoked

anonymous 9/11/2012 11:26:28 AM

you got some problems if you think this song is generic. I know, your band is better and has way more talent then parkway, i get it.

LoydChristmas 9/11/2012 11:43:20 AM

^^^^all of you have got to be kidding me. this is what passes as "professional" metal these days with such a weak main riff as that? a band of 16yr olds that played at a coffee shop last weekend wrote a better riff than this elementary school shit.

changefly12 9/11/2012 12:49:55 PM

Love this band, love the message.

anonymous 9/11/2012 1:19:55 PM

Loyd really has something jammed up his ass today. Holy Christ.

killamanjaro270 9/11/2012 2:59:49 PM

Loyd always has something jammed up his ass. About EVERYTHING. It's like he's got a dildo super glued to his prostate.

Get_Some 9/11/2012 3:49:47 PM

Production redemption after the travesty of "Deep Blue" being recording by my unborn kid....

anonymous 9/11/2012 5:36:24 PM

sounds like a local band.

anonymous 9/11/2012 5:41:14 PM

I don't get these gays who seriously prefer Adam D's flat drums and weedy guitars to the production on the last Parkway album. Maybe stop listening to metalcore with your Macbook speakers?

anonymous 9/11/2012 5:53:55 PM

cool new balance brozzxxx

anonymous 9/11/2012 6:12:47 PM

Holy shit! Is that Nick Swardson on vocals?

anonymous 9/11/2012 6:26:09 PM

Hopefully it's better than 'Deep Blue'. That album sucked dck.

anonymous 9/11/2012 7:28:22 PM

i like this shit. theyre def one of the better metalcore bands

anonymous 9/11/2012 8:41:24 PM

all of which will have fans careening straight for the circle pit. ^ bout sums it up right there. I WANT A fckING CIRCLE PIT RIGHT fckING NOW

anonymous 9/11/2012 8:54:07 PM

annnnnnnnnnnnndd.... IM SURFIN HANG 10 !

anonymous 9/11/2012 9:04:27 PM

Does it bother anyone else that the first sentence of this press release is the LONGEST run on sentence of all time?! You'd think Parkway could afford an educated publicist by now.

anonymous 9/11/2012 9:05:18 PM

All you c*nts are just jealous. PWD are genuinely great dudes who have a killer time travelling and doing what they love. As for Lloyd, at least these guys have a real life and dont live online spreading their misery

anonymous 9/11/2012 10:44:28 PM

lol never fails. always a million haters on this site for any band. Their own favorite band could be posted and they'd still say they suck

blankzzz 9/11/2012 10:53:22 PM

"ten years of being alive and watching our world spiral out of control." these dudes have only been alive for ten years? elementaryschoolcore

anonymous 9/12/2012 1:29:18 AM

Not really a fan of this band but just wanted to say that LoydChristmas is a huge gay who desperately needs to get a life

TheLoudestGuyInTheRoom 9/12/2012 4:36:01 AM

Highly anticipated by stupid ass Aussies who still think Korn is one of the top U.S. metal bands

anonymous 9/12/2012 5:16:47 AM

2004 is stoked.

LoydChristmas 9/12/2012 5:33:38 AM

anonymous 8 hours ago All you c*nts are just jealous. PWD are genuinely great dudes who have a killer time travelling and doing what they love. As for Lloyd, at least these guys have a real life and dont live online spreading their misery "PWD liek meanz tha world 2 me one time the singer put his foot on my shoulder at a show and it was killer so i think they r genuinely good guys 2 chill with im tryn 2 invite them to play at my bday"

anonymous 9/12/2012 1:35:49 PM

So fcking boring. How the hell can anyone sit through the whole thing. Nothing heavy about it. Breakdowns are way past fcking old.

anonymous 9/12/2012 6:10:49 PM

people are defending this shit? On Lambgoat? fck, I'm getting old

big_metal_al 9/12/2012 7:26:27 PM

how are people so stoked on this band? i mean, i get the fact that they're super popular, they aren't horrible, there are far worse bands out there, but they should just title their new album MEH.

anonymous 9/12/2012 7:26:56 PM

Crafter is stoked

anonymous 9/13/2012 12:09:39 AM

Why all this hatred? This is one of the better bands in this genre, it's not one of their best songs but hey, why can´t we just love music all together? These guys are working hard to deliver music that we can love or hate :)

anonymous 9/13/2012 12:30:24 AM

^^^^ Agreed, I've been following these guys Killing With A Smile and they are one of the best at what they do. Hopefully, the new album will be on par with Horizons which is the magnum opus of their career. Deep Blue was disappointing but it had still some pretty sick songs like Home Is For The Heartless.

anonymous 9/13/2012 4:13:45 AM

How in the fck do you think that song is good? I can't listen to it with a straight face.

anonymous 9/13/2012 12:53:10 PM

This website is full of gays who have nothing better to do than make fun of bands that have talent I don't know why I even bother coming to check up on music here anymore. If it's "elementary" style music, why aren't any of you loaded from such easy music touring the world.... Oh probably because you have no talent and you're music would probably be criticized 1,000x worse. Sick band, great stage presence. Stoked on this record

anonymous 9/13/2012 2:17:50 PM

Everybody needs to shut the fck up. This song/video combination blows. But this band does not.

anonymous 10/25/2012 12:25:25 AM

Does anyone know what kind of new balance shoes is winston got on?




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