Benny Doyle, Journalist

“There’s this whole illusion and people think that if a band have a song on triple j they’re pretty much a rock star and they own houses and jet skis, and they’ll never have to lift a finger again... But that’s a real myth."

"They’re journey songs I guess, which is really weird and clichéd, but I don’t know what we’re trying to get out of people. It’s not a conscious thing, the songs just happen because we write in an organic way."

“People will say, ‘I never liked the blues until I heard you,’ and that’s a great compliment. But people here, they really respond, and if they want to feel something, they dig it.”

“Surely we’re better than people shitting on each other!”

With Atlas, Parkway Drive has crafted a sonic landscape unseen while losing none of their trademark brutality, in the process introducing a new benchmark in metalcore.

If you want an unchallenging album that moves along with no surprises, then Welcome Home; you’ve found that record.

Banks has its moments, but as a complete body of work it doesn’t hold enough edge or depth to really shake the idea that you’re just listening to some strange Interpol B-sides.

“We live in an age now where ignorance is an excuse people can't stand behind anymore."

“If it’s three years when I speak to you next,” she finishes, “please shoot me.”

“Everything that I have done in my life has just been for a laugh really.”

“We’re all really happy with the tracks that are recorded and how they were recorded. Now we’ve just got to convince other people that they’re good.”