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Parkway Drive have completed work on their new album with producer Joe Barresi (Queens of the Stone Age, Bad Religion) scheduled out in summer. The band comments:

“And just like that it’s all over! After a couple of years of writing, endless hours of rehearsing, fine tuning songs and practicing, our time in the studio is up. Kind of a surreal but very satisfying feeling.”

“Since the last studio update we finished all the rhythm guitar and bass tracks and dropped vocals on them as we went. The last five days were spent doing guitar overdubs, solos, and touching up all the finer details in each song. Some interesting things were happening during this time. Joe pulled out all sorts of guitars, pedals and amps for certain parts and it was cool to get to use a lot of different gear and experiment with different sounds. Beats playing everything with the same guitar, same amp then digitally modifying it in pro-tools any day!”

“Marshall from The Warriors flew down to sing on a track (which sounds ridiculous) and a few of the other guys from the band came in and helped with some gang vocals. Jeff and I pulled out a few high pitched squeaks that sounded like a couple of 10 year old boys, so we were soon banned from the gang vocal room.”

“We’ve put a lot of hard work into this record and now it’s up to Joe to work his magic mixing the thing, getting it mastered and have it out for you guys to listen to real soon.”

Parkway Drive have finished pre-production and tracking drums for their new record with producer Joe Barresi (Queens of the Stone Age, Bad Religion) due out in summer. The band checked in with a studio update: 

“We arrived in LA only a day before our scheduled start in the studio and pretty much didn’t get a chance for any hanging out or Californian sun… it was straight to work!”

“After finding the studio, which is only 4 blocks from our apartment and displays a spray painted number on the front wall and fortress styled gate, we were greeted by our new producer / fart partner in crime Joe Barresi. The first couple of days we just played through the songs, talked shit over and figured out all the tempos for the songs. Joe was pretty stoked with everything from the start and the songs remained 99% as we originally wrote them.”

“Tracking drums was next on the agenda and the boys (Gaz, Joe and hired assistant Mike) set up the kit and got some pretty fucking huge tones straight away. The next 6 days were like Groundhog Day… wake up at 11am, studio at 12pm, track drums, leave studio at 10pm, have a spa, cook dinner really badly, watch tv / internet, sleep at 3am, repeat. Winston spent a good 8 hours a day playing Call of Duty and Jeff and I just sat around playing guitar here and there, hanging out with Joe’s dog and farting into the specially set up (at arse level) mic for recording farts.”

Parkway Drive will be entering the studio this month with producer Joe Barresi (Queens of the Stone Age, Bad Religion) to record their third studio album.

“Writing with a concept in mind has given us more direction,” comments frontman Winston McCall. “Every song on this album was created with a definite purpose, as opposed to just writing a riff and building on that.”

The band’s new offering is expected out this summer via Epitaph Records.

Parkway Drive have finished writing material for their new record. The band will be entering the studio in the coming months to begin tracking the effort.

In April the band will be hitting the road with Despised Icon and Winds of Plague for a European trek — dates can be found here.

Parkway Drive are finishing up writing material for a new record. The band has plans to enter the studio to begin tracking the new effort in the coming months.