Artist · chart history
Parkway Drive
Band Byron Bay Australia Formed 2003
Parkway Drive formed in 2003 in Byron Bay, Australia. Parkway Drive has 37 chart appearances on 23 radio countdowns from 7 stations on RockLists, spanning 2010–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Crushed”, which appears on 12 lists with a best position of #28. The station that charted Parkway Drive most often is Studio Brussel (Flanders, Belgium), with 25 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2018.
Parkway Drive came out of Byron Bay, New South Wales, in 2003, an unlikely launch pad for a metalcore band that hits this hard. Winston McCall roars up front, Jeff Ling plays guitar, Luke Kilpatrick rounds out the attack and Ben Gordon drives the drums; once Jia O'Connor took the bass in 2006, the lineup simply stopped changing.
Horizons, in 2007, gave them "Carrion", all breakdowns and gang shouts, and Deep Blue and Atlas kept sharpening the attack, with "Wild Eyes" built for a festival field to chant back. Ire, in 2015, sounds like a band reaching for classic heavy metal: bigger riffs, cleaner hooks, a marching stomp on "Crushed" and "Vice Grip". Reverence and Darker Still kept heading down that road, and those last three albums all went to number 1 on the Australian ARIA chart.
Along the way they have been counted among modern metalcore's big four, next to Bring Me the Horizon, Architects and Underoath, and they have even put their story between covers, in a book called Ten Years of Parkway Drive.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Parkway Drive on radio countdowns
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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