Parkway Drive (w/ While She Sleeps, Lorna Shore) Bring Fire to Manchester’s AO Arena [Photos]

Lorna Shore’s Will Ramos strode through the heavy smoke at the back of the stage like a wiry yet sinister WWE wrestler making their stage entrance as the New Jersey-based new heroes of deathcore opened up proceedings for tonight’s Parkway Drive show. With a completely brutal sound topped off by some truly spectacular noises coming from Ramos, they smashed their set and made a few new ears prick up. His demonic pig shrieks and guttural vocals are extremely distinct and have helped the band find even more success across the globe since he joined them in 2021, which is where they focused their 5-track setlist, using material from their most recent EPs. Next up were Sheffield’s While She Sleeps, who brought 1.21 gigawatts of energy to the arena – if there’d had been a flux capacitor some...

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