![]() ![]() ![]() We all know “Glitch” so there’s very little to discuss. The following track “Like Napalm” is a boring half-assed stadium metal song with cliché “Burn it/Burn it all away” vocal chants and very little in the sense of stimulating instrumental passages. Lines like “There's a voice in my head/Telling me I’m not right, wanting me to fall” read as shallow and surface level and this becomes a common struggle with some these tracks that are supposedly reflective, introspective or yearning for deeper meaning. However, the category in which the band suffers most egregiously is in the strange, hackneyed lyricism. The album opens with “Ground Zero” which is standard fare in similar vein to the opener “Destroyer” on their album “Ire.” The song features a kick-to-the-floor two step beat with shiny guitar leads and simplistic riffs. ![]() Whilst not completely awful, the consistency is no longer present, and the songwriting has waned. Here we have “Darker Still” which sees the band taking more creative risks with mixed results and sometimes some head-scratching moments. Having experienced many artists and bands change their sound drastically over the years, I never feel the need to criticize the decisions made to lead to this change and sometimes I find that the old phrase rings true: ‘variety is the spice of life.’ Parkway Drive has been on an anthemic/stadium metal trajectory for their last couple releases beginning with the solidly written “Ire” and further expanded with the less well received “Reverence.” Personally, I ended up preferring the songwriting stylings of “Reverence” more and found that while there were a couple lulls in quality, the consistency was there for my own musical preferences. Review Summary: And the Night Grows Darker Still. ![]()
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