Charles Phaneuf and Adam Lindstaedt stopped by WKNC to discuss this year’s Groove in the Garden Festival, hosted at the Raleigh Little Theater and sponsored by The Pour House Music Hall. September 22nd, 2018. Doors: 1:30, Show: 2:15. Special guest appearance and in-studio performance from Emily Musolino, Durham-based guitarist playing this year’s festival.
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DJ Iron Mic sits down with JooseLord and Jovi Mosconi to discuss some new releases and an upcoming performance.
Parkway Drive is a band from Bryon Bay, Australia. They are known as one of the biggest metalcore bands in the community in 2018. Reverence is their 7th album, and it is their most unique to date. Their 4th album, Deep Blue, helped them hit the scene with a bang, thanks to their hits Unrest and Karma.
Now, in 2018, the Parkway Drive sound has evolved. There has been some controversy with this album with some saying it’s not “heavy enough” or that Parkway Drive is “selling out.” Some have also said that they are no longer metalcore. Winston McCall (lead singer) stated in an interview that he doesn’t see Parkway Drive as a metalcore band because they don’t sound like any other band. They want to be known as (and sound like) Parkway Drive.
As a dedicated fan to Parkway Drive, I personally enjoy the majority of the songs and albums that they have released. I will admit, this record is different than their previous, but in a good way. The sound, structure, riffs, and breakdowns in each song are beautifully arranged. Each of their songs is straight to the point. Some focus more on harmony, such as Chronos and In Blood. The first song off the album and the first single they released, Wishing Wells, focuses more on the instrumentals and the power of the riffs. The song Absolute Power does this as well. Both of these songs also have some of the heaviest breakdowns on the record and for any old school Parkway Drive fans, these songs will be your favorites.
There are some songs that I am not too crazy about, such as Cemetery Bloom and Shadow Boxing. Cemetery Bloom is just a nice little beat with Winston lightly singing over it. Although it does have some good lyrical content, it does not hold my attention. Shadow Boxing surprised me when I first heard it. It started off like Cemetery Bloom and then Winston started rapping. I’m not crazy about rap in metal songs so this song did not really impress me. Shadow Boxing does get into a groove with a nice riff that I can respect. It holds my attention a little more than the prior.
Now, this album reminds me a lot of Metallica’s self-titled album (the “Black album”). This was the album that put Metallica in the limelight and it incorporates the best aspects of the band as a whole. I see a parallel with this record by Parkway Drive. The album also has some songs that, I think, sound good in a stadium; great sing-alongs such as Prey and The Void.
I really enjoy both of these songs and it was great chanting the lyrics and moshing to them when I saw them perform these live at Carolina Rebellion. Reverence is full of everything the band is known for at this point in their career. They have both the melodic tone of their recent albums and their extreme metalcore feel like their older albums.
Is this my favorite album? No. But did I thoroughly enjoy this album? Yes, 100%. Each song has a different feel and theme with some killer riffs and breakdowns. Each song is unique and shows how diverse and flexible Parkway Drive is with their sound. I personally think that Parkway Drive made a great move with this album. They are one of the all-around best, well put together bands that I have ever seen and heard. They have everything, and they all fit together beautifully like puzzle pieces. I think this record will help put Parkway Drive on a bigger and better scale.
Overall rating: 8/10
Favorite song(s): Wishing Wells, Absolute Power, and I Hope You Rot.
THE SAW
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Chainsaw Charts 7/17
# Artist Record Label
1 FIT FOR A KING “The Price of Agony” [Single] Solid State
2 MESS “Shepherd” [Single] Self-Released
3 EAST VIRIDIAN “Asbestos” [Single] Self-Released
4 CHELSEA GRIN Eternal Nightmare Rise
5 CRIPPER “Into The Fire” [Single] Metal Blade
6 BUTCHER BABIES Lilith Metal Blade
7 KUBLAI KHAN Nomad Rise
8 SIGNS OF THE SWARM The Disfigurement of Existence Metal Blade
9 THY ART IS MURDER Hate Nuclear Blast
10 DYING FETUS Wrong on to Fuck With Relapse
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Daytime Charts 7/17
# Artist Record Label
1 TANUKICHAN Sundays Company
2 ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER Hope Downs Sub Pop
3 NATALIE PRASS The Future And The Past ATO
4 SNAIL MAIL Lush Matador
5 KEVIN KRAUTER Toss Up Bayonet
6 VIRGINIA WING Ecstatic Arrow Fire
7 CAROLINE SAYS No Fool Like An Old Fool Western Vinyl
8 FORTH WANDERERS Forth Wanderers Sub Pop
9 ICEAGE Beyondless Matador
10 FATHER JOHN MISTY God’s Favorite Customer Sub Pop
11 RF SHANNON Trickster Blues Cosmic Dreamer
12 KADHJA BONET Childqueen Fat Possum
13 RED STEPPES A Mouth May Grow Native Cat
14 TRACYANNE AND DANNY Tracyanne And Danny Merge
15 EXITMUSIC The Recognitions Felte
16 STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS Sparkle Hard Matador
17 OCEAN HOPE Rolling Days Hush Hush
18 DRINKS Hippo Lite Drag City
19 POST ANIMAL When I Think Of You In A Castle Polyvinyl
20 FLASHER Constant Image Domino
21 NEIGHBOR LADY Maybe Later Friendship Fever
22 TT LoveLaws Love Leaks/Caroline
23 BLESSED Blessed/Tunic Split [EP] Buzz
24 CLAIRE MORALES All That Wanting Self-Released
25 LA LUZ Floating Features Hardly Art
26 SALINE You Did It To Yourself Perfect Attendance
27 COURTNEY BARNETT Tell Me How You Really Feel Mom + Pop
28 TOMEMITSU The Cave (Deluxe Edition) S.A.D.
29 A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS Pinned Dead Oceans
30 LAS ROSAS Shadow By Your Side Greenway
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Chainsaw Charts 7/10
# Artist Record Label
1 LEFT BEHIND Blessed By The Burn Unbeaten
2 KATAKLYSM Meditations Nuclear Blast
3 PARKWAY DRIVE Reverence Epitaph
4 GRUESOME Fragments of Psyche Relapse
5 KNOCKED LOOSE Laugh Tracks Pure Noise
6 TORTURE RACK Malefic Humiliation 20 Buck Spin
7 DIMMU BORGIR Eonian Nuclear Blast
8 CODE ORANGE Forever Roadrunner
9 WATAIN Trident Wolf Eclipse Century Media
10 DYING FETUS Wrong One To Fuck With Relapse
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Afterhours Charts 7/10
# Artist Record Label
1 THE READY SET V1 [EP] Self-Released
2 JOHNY DAR “Gigi” [Single] Self-Released
3 CIMO FRANKEL “Never Give Up” [Single] Self-Released
4 NEGATIVE GEMINI Bad Baby [EP] 100% Electronica
5 ALISON WONDERLAND Awake Astralwerks
6 WHAT SO NOT, TOTO We Keep On Running Counter
7 KASBO Places We Don’t Know Foreign Family Collective
8 SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO Murmurations Wichita
9 DJ TAYE Truu [feat. DJ Paypal] Hyperdub
10 JOJI In Tongues [EP] 88Rising
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Daytime Charts 7/10
# Artist Record Label
1 ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER Hope Downs Sub Pop
2 KEVIN KRAUTER Toss Up Bayonet
3 NATALIE PRASS The Future And The Past ATO
4 SNAIL MAIL Lush Matador
5 SOFT KILL Savior Profound Lore
6 HANA VU How Many Times Have You Driven By [EP] Luminelle
7 FATHER JOHN MISTY God’s Favorite Customer Sub Pop
8 CUT WORMS Hollow Ground Jagjaguwar
9 HALF WAIF Lavender Cascine
10 MOANING Moaning Sub Pop
11 TOMEMITSU The Cave (Deluxe Edition) S.A.D.
12 SHACKS, THE Haze Big Crown
13 DR DOG Critical Equation We Buy Gold/Thirty Tigers
14 LEBANON HANOVER Let Them Be Aliens Optika
15 BEACH HOUSE Seven (7) Sub Pop
16 WINTER Ethereality Everything Blue
17 NO THANK YOU All It Takes To Ruin It All Lame-O
18 NIHILIST CHEERLEADER Riot, Right? Perfect Attendance
19 ICEAGE Beyondless Matador
20 US GIRLS In A Poem Unlimited 4AD
21 AMEN DUNES Freedom Sacred Bones
22 OCEAN HOPE Rolling Days Hush Hush
23 GOBBINJR ocala wick Topshelf
24 TT LoveLaws Love Leaks/Caroline
25 UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA Sex & Food Jagjaguwar
26 FORTH WANDERERS Forth Wanderers Sub Pop
27 FUTO In Heaven, All My Jokes Will Kill Marching Banana
28 HALEY BLAIS Let Yourself Go [EP] Self-Released
29 MORMOR Heaven’s Only Wishful [EP] Don’t Guess
30 SERPENTWITHFEET soil Secretly Canadian
TOP ADDS
1 VIRGINIA WING Ecstatic Arrow Fire
2 TANUKICHAN Sundays Company
3 SUGARPLUM FAIRIES Payday Flowers Starfish
4 CLAIRE MORALES All That Wanting Self-Released
5 THEM ARE US TOO Amends Dais
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Beer Cans are The Saw’s Friends
Storytime with The Saw
This is going to be a story about how I got my first guitar pick. Now, this was a very important moment of my life because it was when I become a savage.
It was November of 2014, and my mom and I decided to go see Pop Evil in Fayetteville. They were having a free show, and it was almost my mom’s birthday, so we decided to go out and celebrate. The show was in the parking lot of a strip club, so you should know that this is going to be a good story when we’re jamming out in the strip club’s parking lot. Anyway, my mom and I were hanging out, chit-chatting with other people at the show. I got asked if I was going to go to the after party that would take place inside the strip club… I was shook. I literally wasn’t even 16 yet.
Pop Evil was my favorite band around this time and when they came on, I was jamming! I knew every word to every song that they had, and the bassist and vocalist shot me the goat (the rock symbol). Typically, at the end of a show, the band would throw things into the crowd (drum sticks, water bottles, set lists, towels, and guitar picks, etc.), the bass player looked dead at me AND THREW HIS PICK AT ME. I don’t have the best hand-eye coordination… so I didn’t catch the pick. BUT I did see where it landed, and I was determined to get that pick. Well homegirl in front of me saw the guitar pick too, and she decided she was going to bend down and pick it up. Not today! I ran towards the pick, saw a beer can on the pavement, kicked the beer can at her when she was bending down, and I dove head first for the pick (maybe a bit too dramatic, but come on… The Saw doesn’t half-ass anything). When I came back up, I came back victorious with the guitar pick in my hand. My mom saw the entire thing… and most parents would frown upon it, but not my mom. When I made eye contact with her, she had a huge smile on her face and her arms were wide open (que the song With Arms Wide Open by Creed) ready to embrace me in a hug. She yelled “MY BABY!!!” when I came up with the pick. She was proud of me for being a straight savage. If you ask her what her proudest moment of me is, she will tell you this story.
From that point on I have been a savage at shows, so watch out. I ain’t afraid to use a beer can if I have to.
* Me on the ground getting the guitar pick *
THE SAW