{"id":1979534,"date":"2025-08-25T23:43:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T23:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1979534"},"modified":"2025-08-25T23:43:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T23:43:38","slug":"parkway-drive-hint-at-new-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/parkway-drive-hint-at-new-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Parkway Drive Hint at New Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Parkway Drive is potentially plotting a larger release sooner than fans might expect, following the release of their single <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/parkway-drive-unleash-sacred-a-defiant-blast-of-purpose-and-power-76466\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cSacred\u201d<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with <em>Rolling Stone AU\/NZ<\/em>, frontman Winston McCall said the Byron Bay outfit is working on more new music amongst other projects like the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/parkway-drive-sydney-opera-house-film-80300\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">live concert film<\/a> of their Sydney Opera House show and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/parkway-drive-park-waves-festival-winston-mccall-interview-80414\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Park Waves 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are actually doing stuff. You know how normally I\u2019m like, \u2018Nah, I can\u2019t really tell you what\u2019s going on\u2019\u2026 We\u2019ve at least dropped \u2018Sacred\u2019, so people are like, \u2018Oh, they\u2019re doing things\u2019. I\u2019m stoked with that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSacred\u201d has exploded across streaming platforms, with McCall calling it the stronger reception to a single in their career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was literally like the best release of a song we\u2019ve ever had, which is nuts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe metrics on that thing. It\u2019s really crazy to drop a song and people go, \u2018It\u2019s the best one\u2019. Everyone\u2019s listening to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"op-interactive\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Parkway Drive - &quot;Sacred&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8v4oxxvs8iY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Not content with sticking to the old three-year album cycle, he said the band is so deep into writing, they have even set up a studio in the back of their tour bus: \u201cWe\u2019re writing every day. It\u2019s really, really fun.<\/p>\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form justify-content-center my-3 p-0 d-flex align-items-stretch bg-dark text-white\">\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form-info p-3\" style=\"justify-content: start;\">\n<h2 class=\"h5 mb-0 observer-title\">Love Music?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"observer-desc mb-2\"> Get your daily dose of everything happening in Australian\/New Zealand music and globally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spinner d-none\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Sacred\u2019 came about from us going, we want to do music and we want to put it out there in the fastest way possible, so you don\u2019t have to wait 3 years and have all of this stuff wrapped in a whole big thing. And then we go, \u2018Here it is, all of it at once\u2019,\u201d he explained.\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019re just like, \u2018No, we\u2019ve got a thing, we\u2019re gonna record it, boom, there it is\u2019. So, we\u2019re still operating on that, doing, like, we have a bunch of things on the boil in terms of different songs and stuff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe might have something out before the end of the year, we might not, but I don\u2019t know, we\u2019re working on stuff that we\u2019re really pumped on,\u201d McCall teased.<\/p>\n<p>Parkway Drive is also still reeling from their highly successful Sydney Opera House show in June, where they delivered a full black-tie, symphonic-metal spectacle that\u2019s now being turned into a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/parkway-drive-sydney-opera-house-film-80300\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">feature-length concert film and live album<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DMrr4uOvf-u\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\"\/>\n<p>Plus, the band\u2019s 2022 album, <em>Darker Still<\/em>, came in at ninth on <em>Rolling Stone AU\/NZ\u2019<\/em>s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/100-best-australian-albums-of-the-2020s-so-far-81842\/calum-hood-order-chaos-order-album-81946\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">100 Best Australian Albums of the 2020s So Far<\/a>. The album helped cement the band as not only Australia\u2019s biggest metalcore act, but also one of the country\u2019s biggest bands, period.<\/p>\n<p>While Parkway Drive\u2019s 2026 touring plans aren\u2019t immediately clear, they have been announced to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hellbound-cruise-lineup-parkway-drive-76104\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">headline Australia\u2019s first heavy metal cruise<\/a>. Plus, they will <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/parkway-drive-park-waves-festival-winston-mccall-interview-80414\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">headline their Park Waves festival<\/a>, with its Australian debut also set for the new year.<\/p>\n<p>McCall isn\u2019t exactly hiding the band\u2019s ambitions \u2014 he\u2019s already got stadiums in his sights. He told <em>Rolling Stone AU\/NZ<\/em> that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/parkway-drive-winston-mccall-interview-stadiums-80731\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">their next live show will be \u201cfucking mental\u201d<\/a>, and taking it to stadiums is \u201cthe only level left\u201d.\u00a0In fact, he shared that the conversation happened even before last year\u2019s arena tour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe concept of Parkway being a stadium after you\u2019ve seen what we can do in an arena, surely you want to see what we\u2019re gonna do with that.\u00a0I want to see what we\u2019re gonna do with that, knowing the shit that I am up for!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that when it happens, because it is a when, it\u2019s gonna be fucking mental.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know the metrics of what it takes to be a band that goes into [stadiums] and makes it work successfully. It\u2018s different from being an arena band, and it takes massive risk, and it takes imagination, and it takes guts to fucking do.\u00a0But I wanna do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');fbq('init','243859349395737');fbq('track','PageView');fbq.disablePushState=true;<\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source au.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parkway Drive is potentially plotting a larger release sooner than fans might expect, following the release of their single \u201cSacred\u201d earlier this year. 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