Since Parkway Drive stunned the metal world in 2015 with their mid-career renaissance Ire, the Aussie heavyweights have been on a journey of evolution and expansion, with 2018 follow-up Reverence taking their bruising metalcore into more emotional and experimental realms. Now, on their seventh full-length outing, the Byron Bay brutes have taken yet another small step toward their final form, and one giant leap into the abyss.As the title suggests, darkness bubbles and oozes throughout the record like a putrid pus. Speaking to Kerrang! this summer, frontman Winston McCall says the overarching theme of Darker Still is one of “a person reaching a point in their life where they’re confronted with an event that tears down and destroys everything about them in terms of their perc...