Parkway Drive

Follow Sonisphere set with 4 spring dates

Parkway Drive have announced a four-date UK tour for April next year.

The Australian hardcore band, who played a rapturously received set at Sonisphere this weekend, will begin the trek at London's indigO2 on April 7 and finish on April 11, when they play Cardiff's University Great Hall.

The band have also revealed that they're planning to get back in the studio to record the follow up to 2010's 'The Deep Blue' "sooner rather than later."

Parkway Drive is an Australian metalcore band from Byron Bay, New South Wales, formed in 2002.

As of 2010, Parkway Drive has released three full-length albums, Killing with a Smile, Horizons, and Deep Blue, a DVD, an EP, entitled Don't Close Your Eyes and two split albums.

Their name is from the band's hometown in Byron Bay, New South Wales where the group practised in a house garage, called the "Parkway House", on Parkway Dr – the street's name.

Not long after formation, they released a split EP with metalcore band I Killed the Prom Queen from Adelaide, entitled I Killed The Prom Queen / Parkway Drive: Split CD in 2003. Parkway Drive also made an appearance on the Byron Bay Hardcore compilation What We've Built, preceded by their EP, Don't Close Your Eyes. In May 2005, they headed to the United States to record their debut album with metal producer, Adam Dutkiewicz (Killswitch Engage guitarist) whose production credits include Unearth and Underoath.

Since the release of Don't Close Your Eyes, Parkway Drive have rapidly accumulated a fanbase Australia-wide, courtesy of support slots for international acts including Hatebreed, In Flames, Chimaira, Shadows Fall, As I Lay Dying, Bleeding Through, Alexisonfire, and performances at Metal for the Brain 2005 and Australia's Hardcore 2005. The band's debut album, Killing with a Smile was released in August 2005 and has since sold in excess of 30,000 copies in Australia.They toured strongly behind the album, playing dozens of headlining shows, as well as an appearance at the Gold Coast leg of the Big Day Out festival in January 2006. In June 2006, the band was signed to Epitaph Records, which released their debut album Killing with a Smile in the United States during August of that year.

In December 2010, they released a cover of Bad Religion's "Do What You Want", on a split 7" with Australian bands 50 Lions, No Apologies and Blkout entitled, This is Australia. The 7" was released by good friend and No Apologies vocalist Pete 'Bloke' Abordi on Abordi's very own Bloke Records. The goal was to release one song each by four prominent Australian hardcore bands with each song being under a minute in length.

In 2011, Winston McCall was featured in The Warriors' song "Panic", from their album See How You Are. It was announced in early 2011 that Parkway Drive would perform at the Sonisphere Festival in Imola, Italy on 25 June and in Knebworth, UK on the 10 July.Parkway Drive embarked upon another Australian tour in May 2011, The Mix N' Mash Tour, with support from Miss May I, The Wonder Years, Confession and a local support band from each city. During the Melbourne leg of The Mix N' Mash Tour, vocalist Winston McCall told the audience that their current Australian tour would be their only local tour for 2011. He mentioned that they would take some time off touring to work on a new album, but did not specify when.

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