Parkway Drive
 

This band kicks so much ass! The songs " smoke em if ya got em, pandora and romance is dead " own! Anybody else like them.

Yeah I've also gotten into this band recently and I am digging it. Some good stuff. They are from Australia I believe?

yeah, their an aussie band

Boneyards is a pretty intense song, too.

yeah, i've been listening to boneyards a ton lately. Intense is the only way to describe it.

I think they're ok. Nothing to write home about, though.

what are your favorite bands?

i disagree they just seem like another metalcore band to me nothing to write home about

they do thoes cheesy breakdowns thoes are so played out IMO

yes, they use too many breakdowns, but not all songs are slowed down as much as some of the stuff you may have heard from them. They have some songs that are extremely slowed down because of long breakdowns

Opeth, Between The Buried and Me, Primus, Psycroptic, Dillinger Escape Plan

I enjoy them. Just got done listening to Five Months a little while ago, actually :)

awesome song!

Saw them live last month, it was actually pretty good.

This is a pretty good band. The Siren's Song is a good one.

And does it make you sick?
Can you hear me?
Is she conscious?
Does it make you feel beautiful?
Bloodshed under the streetlights
Does it make you sick?
Oh, god, we’ve got a bleeder here
Does it make you beautiful?
Heartbreak under the streetlight
She’s lost again

^ best part

Listen to acacia strain. Overall better and parkway drive is swagger jacking them.

I got into Parkway Drive after hearing It's Hard To Speak Without A Tongue
So good :)

bump, new album is just like the other two.

AWESOME

Aren't people bored of cookie cutter metalcore bands yet?

Nope. (: If that's what you want to call them.

I think Parkway Drive are decent as far as metalcore is concerned. And that's what they are, Metalcore.

I think they are, at best, OK.

I'm not Parkway Drive's biggest fan, but they're not bad either. I like them from time to time.

I wasn't referring to the Metalcore part, more so the whole phrase. "cookie-cutter Metalcore bands." I also didn't mean that it bothered me in the slightest.

Bands that fall into the cookie cutter metal/deathcore category:

Suicide Silence
White Chapel
Attack Attack
Pretty much anything at Vans Warped Tour

Bands that don't:

The Red Chord
The Faceless
Within the Ruins
Winds of Plague

It's very rare that anything unique comes out of the genre, though.

okay. opinion. I think each person judges what they find unique though.

I agree, there are bands on both lists I enjoy. I like Attack! Attack! and some Suicide Silence, but I think The Faceless are crap. Red Chord are just plain brutal though, how can you not love them?

Hah. yes, I agree with Attack Attack! and Suicide Silence, shocker haha, but actually Red Chord are okay too. Whitechapel I don't really care for.

Amazing band, awesome chilled dudes, saw them last night for the 5th time, w/ the devil wears prada and the ghost inside. Best band to come from here :) (australia)

This, I'm jealous of. I've watched Parkway Drive once at Warped.

I do like The Red Chord

read my post again.

The bottom list is the list of bands that I do like.

PWD has consistently been my favorite band, as in i like all of there songs there arent any that make me thing WTF?!?!? saw them in concert and they were really good :)

New single sounds all right, yes not to bad at all, I'm going to get my ticket for the tour.

yes, its nice someone can make commercially viable metal (metalcore) without doing those horrible effeminate emo vocals. Talented to.

Should I go to an Opeth or Parkway Drive concert if I can only choose one?
 

Should I go to an Opeth or Parkway Drive concert if I can only choose one?

Pandora keeps trying to shove this band down my throat. Finally had to start giving every tune of theirs a thumbs down. Not because they're awful but was tired of hearing them multiple times an hour.

Parkway Drive is just mediocre. Nothing to write home about and definitely not a band I'll keep track of or follow. They're better than a lot of metal bands out there but just doesn't have that X factor to make them stand out from the pack.

Opeth for sure.

I can dig Parkway Drive, but after a few songs they all start to run together and I get the urge to listen to better metalcore.

Just stay home and spend your money on beer and weed.

Batlord, you don't like Opeth?

Not really, no. They sound like a boring band who have two speeds: occasionally good death metal (though Mikael Akerfeldt is a pretty damn good DM vocalist) and boring prog, which they jam together as if you can just haphazardly jam death metal and prog together. I'd rather listen to Cynic or Edge of Sanity, who Opeth are basically just ripping off.







And if you want to hear Mikael Akerfeldt's DM vocals used as they should be...

I've never been a big Opeth fan either, my fiancee used to love Opeth until their last 2 albums where evidently they (according to her, since I've never heard either of them) are trying to be some 70's Prog. Rock, King Crimson ripoff band.

As for the OT, Parkway Drive is a fun band if you take them for what they are, a basic Metalcore band, which there's nothing wrong with that if you don't expect anything more than that from them.

Killing With a Smile is still one of my favorites of the genre, their album Atlas was also very nice.

I missed the Parkway Drive show unfortunately. My job pretty much has me working round the clock, and it was on a weekday....so no go.

I'm kind of curious about Opeth though. There albums are often hailed by critics as metal masterpieces, but I've never actually bothered to sit down and put in quality time listening to their music.