Parkway Drive have announced that their seventh studio album Darker Still will release on September 09th through Epitaph Records. Along with the details, the band released a new single called “The Greatest Fear“, which you can find a music video for below.
Winston McCall, the band’s vocalist, offered the following on the song:
“The greatest fear, the one we all share; this song is about the unifying force we all must face —death. The goal was to create a song that saw death not as something that separates, but something that connects us all on our paths. Musically, we wanted to create a song that did this concept justice. It’s heavy, it’s epic and when it stomps it leaves an impact.”
Regarding the album, McCall mentioned the album explores the concept of “the dark night of the soul” stating that “the idea of reaching a point in your life where you are faced with a reckoning of your structure of beliefs, your sense of self and your place in the world, to a point where it’s irreconcilable with the way that you are as a person.”
He continued:
“When Parkway originally started out, we all were trying to push ourselves to do more than we possibly could. What you hear on ‘Darker Still‘ is the final fulfillment of our ability to learn and grow catching up with the imagination that we have always had.”
“There are compositions and songs that we’d never attempted before — or, to be more accurate, which we have attempted in the past, but not had the courage, time or understanding to pull off.”
Jeff Ling, the band’s guitarist, added:
“I’m really proud of what we have achieved together, and feel that as musicians, we have really ascended to new realms of class and ability.”
Darker Still track listing:
01 – “Ground Zero”
02 – “Like Napalm”
03 – “Glitch”
04 – “The Greatest Fear”
05 – “Darker Still”
06 – “Imperial Heretic”
07 – “If A God Can Bleed”
08 – “Soul Bleach”
09 – “Stranger”
10 – “Land Of The Lost”
11 – “From The Heart Of The Darkness”
