Parkway Drive's Winston McCall on the powerful vulnerability of 'Darker Still'

For a band whose pyro-technics are the stuff of legend, stripping back the smoke and mirrors for Parkway Drive's brand new epic 'Darker Still' was brutal, but as Winston McCall tells BLUNT, it was vital.
From the outside looking in, following the release of their erstwhile album Reverence, fans could be forgiven for thinking Parkway Drive had achieved an unstoppable momentum, but inside the band it was a far different story. Seemingly harmless old habits had cauterization into wounds leaving two options: Break up, or deal with things. "It took us 10 years to work out what we were even doing", McCall explains.
Fortunately for the band, and their stadium-filling legions of fans around the world, idea of breaking up was put aside while the band did the shadow work. The end result is a band minus the armour, but with a new-found impenetrable skin and a vibranium frame now supporting an album we so very nearly didn't get at all.