![]() ![]() It's evening time in beautiful Byron Bay, and the musician amusingly points out a tan line around his neck from surfing. “We’ve been a band for 20 years now, and we were completely burnt out before COVID even hit,” elaborates Jeff, some 10,000-miles-plus away at home. By the end of it, shit was so fucking tense, and really, really dramatic – and traumatic – between the band members.” ![]() It was, Winston reveals, “a very, very difficult period for us. As we soon learn, they’re surely coming through the other side now – but it’s been, well, an experience… ![]() In fact, you could say they’ve put themselves through it. Since 2018’s stunning Reverence, Parkway Drive – completed by guitarists Jeff Ling and Luke Kilpatrick, bassist Jia O’Connor and drummer Ben Gordon – have been put through the wringer. Still reeling from some of the most challenging times of the band’s 20-year career to date, Winston is nevertheless in high spirits as he catches up with K! today – fresh from a visit to the Kerrang! Awards 2022 at Shoreditch Town Hall, in which he presented fellow compatriots Amyl And The Sniffers with the Best International Breakthrough award. This is the Parkway Drive vocalist’s first trip out of his native Australia since the pandemic, and he’s trekked halfway across the world to unveil the metal titans’ upcoming seventh album, Darker Still. “The thing is,” begins Winston McCall, his usually-assured voice quietening right down to a near-whisper, “the whole process came really close to destroying the entire band. ![]()
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