Metal, Hardcore, Indie, Rock
Vocalist Winston McCall of Australian band Parkway Drive was questioned about the potential for new music from him and his colleagues in a recent interview with the Everblack podcast, as per Blabbermouth.
Yeah. That’s what we’re doing right now, writing new stuff… It’s going real good. I’m very excited. It’s gonna be a while. We’re in the writing stage, but at this point in time it’s a very, very awesome writing stage. It’s nice when you do some stuff and you’re, like, ‘Oh, it’s gonna make people’s heads explode.’ When you do something, you kind of sit there and you’re, like, ‘Oh, shit. Okay. Cool.’ [It’s a] nice feeling.
Winston responded as follows when asked if he and his Parkway Drive comrades collaborate on new songs at their jam space or if they work on them independently at home.
A bit of both. [We] do stuff at home and then we bring stuff together at our space and just chip away at it. And we’re just rolling on momentum at the moment. While stuff’s going, we just keep working. We’ve got a lot of stuff that we’re working on, like lots of — I’m gonna say material, but by material I just mean melodies and ideas and concepts and riffs and all of that. And we’re just smashing things out, and we just keep rolling, like, ‘Cool. Awesome.’ Just keep the momentum going. Once something’s done, you move on to the next one… Lots of good stuff. Sweet.
Winston gave specifics on the upcoming Parkway Drive material’s musical direction.
It’s the most powerful Parkway has been in a… Thus far we want it to make an impact, and it’s probably the most intense-sounding music that we’ve created in a very long time, which is great. [Laughs] There’s some stuff where we’re, like. ‘All right. What’s the fastest we’ve played? Let’s play it faster than that.’ [Laughs] ‘Let’s make it the heaviest thing we’ve done.’
So, what’s the rest of 2026 looking for the Aussies?
Just writing music. That’s it. Writing music. There’s a few things here and there, but we’re writing music. That’s it. We wanted to have an album written quite some time ago. And the Opera House opportunity popped up, so that’s gonna be coming. We’ve got the live Opera House album is gonna be dropping, as well as the film for it will be hitting cinemas. And the live album sounds absolutely mental — like fucking mental, man. I got the masters back for it a couple of days ago and I was, like, ‘Holy shit.’ So I’m very excited for people to hear that, ’cause for the people that weren’t in the room at that point in time — even for the people that were in the room, who would’ve just been hit by shock and awe for two and a half hours, it’s absolutely stunning. So I’m really, really proud of that. So that will be coming. And we’re still working another album at the same time. So you’re gonna get some new Parkway things.
