Metal Anarchy

During an appearance on the Everblack podcast, Parkway Drive’s Winston McCall discussed the band’s current writing sessions. According to him, the material is “probably the most intense-sounding music that [they’ve] created in a very long time.”

McCall said the following about new music:

“Yeah. That’s what we’re doing right now, writing new stuff… It’s going real good. I’m very excited. It’s gonna be a while. We’re in the writing stage, but at this point in time it’s a very, very awesome writing stage. It’s nice when you do some stuff and you’re, like, ‘Oh, it’s gonna make people’s heads explode.’ When you do something, you kind of sit there and you’re, like, ‘Oh, shit. Okay. Cool.’ [It’s a] nice feeling.”

He continued when asked if the band work separately at home or in a jam space together:

“A bit of both. [We] do stuff at home and then we bring stuff together at our space and just chip away at it. And we’re just rolling on momentum at the moment. While stuff’s going, we just keep working. We’ve got a lot of stuff that we’re working on, like lots of — I’m gonna say material, but by material I just mean melodies and ideas and concepts and riffs and all of that. And we’re just smashing things out, and we just keep rolling, like, ‘Cool. Awesome.’ Just keep the momentum going. Once something’s done, you move on to the next one… Lots of good stuff. Sweet.”

He also discussed the musical direction:

“It’s the most powerful PARKWAY has been in a… Thus far we want it to make an impact, and it’s probably the most intense-sounding music that we’ve created in a very long time, which is great. [Laughs] There’s some stuff where we’re, like. ‘All right. What’s the fastest we’ve played? Let’s play it faster than that.’ [Laughs] ‘Let’s make it the heaviest thing we’ve done.’”

McCall also added the following when asked about the group’s plans for 2026:

“Just writing music. That’s it. Writing music. There’s a few things here and there, but we’re writing music. That’s it. We wanted to have an album written quite some time ago. And the Opera House [career-defining Sydney Opera House show in June 2025, where PARKWAY DRIVE performed alongside a full symphonic orchestra for the one-night-only event] opportunity popped up, so that’s gonna be coming. We’ve got the live Opera House album is gonna be dropping, as well as the film for it will be hitting cinemas. And the live album sounds absolutely mental — like fucking mental, man. I got the masters back for it a couple of days ago and I was, like, ‘Holy shit.’ So I’m very excited for people to hear that, ’cause for the people that weren’t in the room at that point in time — even for the people that were in the room, who would’ve just been hit by shock and awe for two and a half hours, it’s absolutely stunning. So I’m really, really proud of that. So that will be coming. And we’re still working another album at the same time. So you’re gonna get some new PARKWAY things.”

[via Blabbermouth]