Darker Still by Parkway Drive

Darker Still, Parkway Drive's seventh studio album, arrived on 9 September 2022 through Resist and Epitaph, from a band that had spent the months before it close to the edge. That April the Byron Bay metalcore crew scrapped a North American tour, saying the constant grind of the band had left them little time to work out who they were, and in May they stepped back for their mental health, while insisting they weren't going anywhere.

"Glitch" broke the silence in June, video and all. George Hadji-Christou produced, and the lineup was the one that had held since 2006: Winston McCall on lead vocals, Jeff Ling on guitar, Jia O'Connor on bass, Ben Gordon on drums and Luke Kilpatrick rounding out the five. It went to number 1 in Australia, the band's third chart-topper in a row, and picked up ARIA nominations for Best Group and Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album.

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