Australia's biggest hardcore-metal band Parkway Drive have delivered the long-awaited follow-up to 2007's hard-hitting breakout album Horizons just in time to unleash the new tracks as they storm the Warped Tour all summer. Determined to surpass previous efforts, Parkway Drive have gone all out in creating a complete listening experience. While maintaining the band's trademark sound at its core, "Deep Blue" weaves music, lyrics and artwork together into a dense concept that flows from beginning to end.
Download:
Google: "Parkway Drive - Deep Blue [2010] [Album] [320kbps]"
MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/parkwaydrive
Music label:
Epitaph Records
Label's site:
http://www.epitaph.com/
Country:
Australia
Tracklist:
1. Samsara
2. Unrest
3. Sleepwalker
4. Wreckage
5. Dead Weight
6. Alone
7. Pressures
8. Deliver Me
9. Karma
10. Home Is For The Heartless
11. Hollow
12. Leviathan I
13. Set To Destroy
Despite it’s almost unbearable bad moments, Deep Blue does contain quite a bit of great material. All breakdowns aside, Jeff Ling and Luke Kilpatrick know how to pull some greats riffs out of the bag; while songs such as “Deadweight” offer great past paced , groove filled and melodic riffs, “Wreckage” features the sublime guitar tapping that has become a keystone in Parkway Drive sound. Strangely enough, Deep Blue also features a fair bit of atmospheric playing, a stark contrast from the majority of most metalcore. “Alone” (which opens with a beautiful clean picked guitar intro) features a great bit of atmosphere filled playing that is made even greater with its incorporation into chugging metalcore style riffs.
As it has always been, vocalist Winston McCall remains to be the best part of Parkway Drive; his range and ferocity and overall ability is definitely one the best to be featured in metalcore. Capable high pitched rasps as well as low, deep gutturals (“Pressures”) the man is capable of doing anything and doing it well. Although Ben Gordon is a standard metal drummer, that is nothing to be ashamed about; “Unrest” features some awesome hardcore influenced drumming and “Leviathan I” incorporates well played blast beats amongst other techniques.
With Deep Blue Parkway Drive has the made the record everyone was expecting them to make; a fact that comes with an equal amount of negative and positive attributes. If you weren’t a fan of the bands previous material, then don’t even bother checking this out; you will most definitely hate it. However, if you were a fan of the bands past material, then you will certainly find Deep Blue to be another enjoyable album in Parkway Drive’s discography.
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