It sounds like Parkway Drive really enjoyed playing to a home crowd at the Sydney Opera House.
The metalcore titans played an exclusive show at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall to devoted fans last night (June 9th), and they praised their home country at the start of their set.
“For over two decades, we have carried our home in our hearts as we roamed around the world,” they told the crowd, adding that “Australia has made us; from the dirt to the sky, it is who we are.”
Rolling Stone AU/NZ sent a reviewer to the exclusive show, who gave Parkway Drive the highest compliment that can possibly be afforded to an Australian band:
“Parkway Drive are becoming the AC/DC of their generation, in the most complimentary way possible – should that be an aim of theirs, it would not be surprising if they achieve it earlier than they may think,” the review claimed.
The publication’s review also noted how massive an undertaking the band’s Concert Hall show was, writing, “Bringing their music to one of the world’s most recognisable venues, the Sydney Opera House, was a big swing from a band already renowned for their expansive and ambitious live shows.
“Yet to witness Parkway Drive backed by a full symphonic orchestra within the Concert Hall proved to be a new level of emotional evocation for fans to experience.”
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In other Parkway Drive news, the band dropped their new single “Sacred” last month, their first new music since 2022’s Darker Still.
The crushing new single saw the Byron Bay heavyweights combine their signature metal power with a message of defiance and hope.
“The mission statement for ‘Sacred’ is pretty damn simple,” said frontman Winston McCall. “An anthemic wrecking ball of positive energy.”
“Our lives and the way we exist in the world has been pushed further and further through the lenses and frames of negativity and hopelessness. Obsession with everything we lack, everything we hate, everyone we blame, everything that keeps us down,” he added. “We sell the unique parts of us most precious just to buy back manufactured pieces of self in order that we may feel whole again.”
