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Parkway Drive review – uplifting rock rises from the fires of grief

Manchester Apollo
Pouring their pain into pulverising metalcore, the Australian group earn chanting adoration from their audience

Three years ago, everything was going swimmingly for Australian rockers Parkway Drive. Their fifth album, Ire, had taken them from their Byron Bay metalcore beginnings to a global breakthrough, including a No 1 in their own country. Then tragedy unfolded around them.

Friends in the band the Ghost Inside were involved in a bus crash that killed two drivers and left band members with life-changing injuries. A band member’s partner and fellow musician – Architects’ guitarist Tom Searle – died of cancer, as did Parkway frontman Winston McCall’s beloved dog, Monty, who died in the singer’s arms. Such events have given Parkway’s music a powerful emotional edge. McCall channelled his grief into 2018’s Reverence, which has taken his band to arena status. At the first of two nights in the cavernous Apollo, his cries of “welcome to a world of pain” and “we’re still here, unbreakable” sound like he is raging defiantly at the cruelty of it all, but this show is uplifting as well as compelling. It must cheer McCall greatly that the audience adore them, with chants of “Parkway Drive!” beginning after only a few numbers.

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