Deep Blue by Parkway Drive

Deep Blue finds Parkway Drive, the metalcore crew out of Byron Bay, New South Wales, teaming up with producer Joe Barresi, with Epitaph, Burning Heart and Resist sharing the release. By then the lineup had locked into place: founding members Winston McCall on vocals, Jeff Ling on guitar, Ben Gordon on drums and Luke Kilpatrick, joined by bassist Jia O'Connor, the same five who have carried the band ever since.

It's metalcore with the dials pushed hard: breakdowns that drop like a trapdoor, riffs with real melodic bite and McCall's bark tearing through the middle of it all. "Sleepwalker" is the track that made the countdowns, and Loudwire would later count the band among modern metalcore's Big Four, next to Bring Me the Horizon, Architects and Underoath.

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