Due To The COVID Pandemic, Parkway Drive Are Now Working On A New Album

Parkway Drive weren't intending to record new music in 2020 but with plans drastically changing due to the COVID pandemic, the band are back in the studio. 

Appearing on a new episode of The Green Room with Neil Griffiths podcast, frontman Winston McCall has revealed that due to their European tour being called off, the Byron Bay metalcore outfit have now begun work on a new album but are "very, very early" in the process. 

"It's gonna take time. We promised ourselves we'd give ourselves time as well," McCall told host Neil Griffiths.

"This process was gonna start next year but we were like, 'Well, if gigs end up getting shifted around this year... we're just gonna free up that space, so start writing now.'"

McCall told Griffiths back in December that Parkway Drive fans shouldn't expect any new music in 2020 but now the five-piece are "really excited" to make a new record.

"We really do want to provide ourselves with enough time to get it to the point where there is no stone left unturned and there is no avenue which we haven't explored... there's no, 'I wonder what would have happened if there was an extra three days', because you'd be shocked at how many times that's happened on every single thing."

McCall said he couldn't say when fans should expect the follow-up album to 2018's Reverence given that their plans changed so quickly. 

"The idea was it was going to be pretty far down the line. But with all of this going on, we are literally having band meetings every other week... everything is shifting," he said.

"We really don't know how long it will take to write the record that we want to write. It could be done in a month... but I really doubt it, just because I know that when we write it takes us a long time to get to the point where we sit on something where we like writing something and coming back to it six months later and seeing if it still holds water. And if it doesn't hold water, it's scrapped and we rewrite.

"We've definitely started. There's riffs and bits of songs and concepts. We're definitely into it, you just never know."

"[2015 album] Ire was harder to write for us then Reverence. But this one could be harder for us to write than anything we've ever done or it could be piss easy. You just don't know."

Check out the full The Green Room episode with McCall on Spotify, Apple Podcasts (below) or wherever you listen to your favourite podcasts.

Parkway Drive's new documentary, Viva The Underdogs, will be available for rent or purchase on Amazon, iTunes, Google or Vimeo from 24 April.

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