Parkway Drive are an ARIA Award-winning, chart topping metal band from Byron Bay, Australia. For more than a decade, the band has stood at the forefront of heavy music worldwide, matching their uncompromising urgency with a powerful musicality and an explosive live show. In the kitchen of the Byron Bay home of Winston McCall stands a refrigerator, adorned on one side by a quote from Tom Waits: "I want beautiful melodies telling me terrible things."   This, the Parkway Drive vocalist says, is a pretty good summation of himself. It holds true, too, as one of the guiding principles behind Darker Still, the seventh full-length album to be born of this picturesque and serene corner of north-eastern NSW, Australia, and the defining musical statement to date from one of modern metal's most revered bands.    Darker Still, McCall says, is the vision he and his bandmates have held in their mind's eye since a misfit group of friends first convened in their parents' basements and backyards in 2003. The journey to reach this moment has seen Parkway evolve from metal underdogs to festival-headlining behemoth, off the back of close to 20 gruelling years, six critically and commercially acclaimed studio albums (all of which achieving Gold status in their home nation), three documentaries, one live album, and many, many thousands of shows.    "When Parkway originally started out, we all were trying to push ourselves to do more than we possibly could," is how McCall explains it. "What you hear on Darker Still is the final fulfillment of our ability to learn and grow catching up with the imagination that we have always had."   To understand that growth is to understand Darker Still, both musically and thematically. Those who thought they had Parkway Drive figured out — the unrivaled energy, the high-octane breakdowns, McCall's 来自澳洲的著名METAL-CORE乐队PARKWAY DRIVE成立于2003年夏天，在澳洲发行了首张EP《DON'T CLOSE YOUR EYES》后在2005年转战于美国并在KILLSWITCH ENGAGE的吉他手ADAM DUTKIEWICZ的监制下推出了乐队的第一张正式专辑《KILLING WITH A SMILE》,随后在澳洲、美国、加拿大、欧洲等诸多地区与众多著名乐队在一系列大型音乐节上巡演。