![]() ![]() ![]() The band kept on touring, subbing in replacement players as needed. ![]() “We had to start dealing with what that meant to all of us - not only as humans, but as a band, like what are we gonna do?” He is visibly emotional, and pauses to take several deep breaths before continuing. “It was like a bomb getting dropped on our world,” says McCall. Then a band member’s partner was also diagnosed with terminal cancer. We’ve toured with them more than we’ve toured with any other band and were like, that’s shit, but you’ll beat it, right?” “We were playing a festival with Architects when Tom told us about his diagnosis,” McCall tells me. McCall’s beloved boston terrier died unexpectedly, touring buddies The Ghost Inside were maimed in a horrific bus crash and close friend Tom Searle from the British band Architects had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. It was a commercial success, landing them their first #1 album in Australia and spots on the top end of massive festival bills across the US and Europe.īut all was not well within the ranks of Parkway. Ire marked a dramatic change in the band’s sound as they cast off breakdowns for stadium-friendly choruses. The kids in board shorts and band t-shirts have become grown men with greying hair and trimmed beards, wearing funeral black and proper trousers. You can see it in the band’s promo photos. The past three years have been the most personally difficult in the band’s 15 year career –– their own plummet towards the depths. And really, with the themes, it was just so fitting.” “Our album artwork has always been reasonably simple and this time I wanted something that would draw people in, but also fit the seriousness of the lyrics. He points out a few rejected reference works on the gallery walls as he explains why “The Fall Of The Damned” was the perfect choice for the cover art of new album Reverence. Each member of the band (McCall, along with guitarists Luke Kilpatrick and Jeff Ling, drummer Ben “Gaz” Gordon and bass player Jia O’Connor) has a designated role in the creation of their music and the running of the business, and McCall is in charge of vocals, lyrics, and coming up with the concepts for the band’s album artwork. ![]()
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