Live Review: Parkway Drive, I Killed The Prom Queen, Northlane, Survival

Kicking off the night's proceedings was Gold Coast five-piece outfit Survival. While having only been together since 2011, they delivered an aggressive and fast-paced style of hardcore along with a very exciting stage presence, getting punters involved early. Though being the only non-metalcore band on the line-up they were very worthy of their spot on the roster.

Next up were Sydney's Northlane, and their performance was the only disappointment of the night. They were very sloppy and disorganised to begin their set; at times sounding out of time and some of the samples used were over-powering their live sound. This didn't deter the young revellers who emerged from the mosh; covered in sweat, and some limping, but all smiling.

Returning to the touring circuit, Adelaide's I Killed The Prom Queen, now armed with new vocalist Jamie Hope (former The Red Shore) received a massive reception from the Perth locals. They have found new life with Hope on vocals, whose screams are equally as heavy as their past frontmen, playing a really solid and polished set, focusing on songs from 2006's Music For The Recently Deceased. They finished with Sharks In Your Mouth during which Hope called the crowd, “Crazy mother-fuckers for a Wednesday night.” The set was a big statement declaring that Prom Queen are back.

As the anticipation grew, Parkway Drive took to the stage under the intro from their latest offering Atlas as Sparks resonated around the stadium, with an impressive lighting display. From here Parkway propelled into Old Ghosts/New Regrets and then Sleepwalker, where one punter was so excited he managed to find his way onto the stage and began to mosh his way around the Parkway boys, much to their amusement. When a security guard finally came for the man he leaped from the stage back into the crowd.

All the favourites were played with a mix of songs from their entire catalogue including Boneyards, Romance Is Dead, Deliver Me and new tracks Wild Eyes and Dark Days with a brutal stage presence and an incredibly tight precision that had the crowd in raptures. Frontman Winston McCall demanded more moshing, more crowd-surfing and bigger circle pits and the crowd reciprocated his every word. The impressive set ended with Carrion, where the band stopped the song nearly 15 seconds in with McCall asking for more crowd participation, pointing out heir own complete and utter fatigue. As they started again, the crowd clearly took a deep breath and what followed was an epic sea of moshing and bodies flying everywhere, McCall finishing with “Merry fucking Christmas, Perth.”