Parkway Drive announced release date for IRE and just released the first track off it: Vice Grip

Parkway Drive announced release date for IRE and just released the first track off it: Vice Grip We know Parkway Drive took what some would call a turn left from hard rock to metalcore, but times change. Bands that sing in the 2000s as they did in the 70's have no popularity among the young. You can impose a certain musical model, but you can't impose the old as the new new, unless you make them blend. Frontiers Records are releasing old rock bands, and to be franc, they sound just as they did 30-40 years ago. That's no way to deal with things, honestly. Same rock themes (devils, angels, mythology, God, the Devil, electricity, metal - "where?" someone asks - IN THE NIGHT, so darkness, shadows, obscure bars, drinking, long hair, curled hair, and so on), same rock voice (the high pitched AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH has been juiced out, used and reused in all genres, from heavy metal to glam, hair, progressive, power, even trash metal), same guitar riffs, same sequence of Verse - Chorus - Verse 2 - Chorus - Guitar Solo/and or/Monosyllabic Bridge - Chorus again.

Metalcore is experiment, it's having growls alongside yells, different instruments in the same song (instead of the classical line-up: drum, voice, 1/2 guitar/s, bass), including more than one singer, modern psychological themes, techniques and motifs that reach out to contemporary youth (self consciousness; decay; fragmentation; the other; irony; the opressing system; twisted feelings like guilt, remorse, uncertainty, fear, shame, hunger, desire, alongside with faith, courage, light, gratitude and so on;), it's having a non-linear structure (chorus might appear just one time and with variations, so it doesn't bore you to death), realistic inspiration (who isn't sick of those one-word-heart-pumping-technique: THUNDER NANANANA, or POISON, those leit motifs that are also very repetitive: WALK THIS WAY! or HERE I AM! ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE!).

Consider listening to this band, if you haven't already. These guys cut off their hair, they've cut off those long strings guitarists used to leave hanging off the head of their "babies", and they've taken electricity to another level.

Check out their facebook here:

https://www.facebook.com/parkwaydrive

The new album, IRE is out on September 25, so tune in around that date for the complete lyrics.

The only bad thing we can say about this song they got out, "Vice Grip", is that the video kinda bums down the idea of the song, in a way. "Hope for the hopeless, a light in the darkness", that's great. The "constant battle" against the system. Great! "One life, one shot / Give it all u got, keep the flame alive". This is what we're worried about. That's "carpe diem" right there. It's a good philosophy because it opposes the Christian belief of "eternity". But does it really mean yolo, taking the bull by the horns, parachute off planes and have fun daily?! We'll leave the answer for you guys. :)