

The laughter and elation that last summer’s Reverence tour brought to Parkway is far removed from the emotions and experiences that fed into it. In that moment you break character and just grin, before going back to screaming your guts out ( laughs).” “It’s hard not to feel joy when you look down and there’s a thousand people standing in a row, smiling at you. Having only played the festival once before back in 2016, three years later they had graduated to the top of the bill. The sensory stimulation from that is indescribable.”Ī crowd of over 80,000 watched Parkway Drive close Wacken. They’re singing your words back to you, except they speak German and you speak English, but they’re still singing in English because it means something to them.

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It’s like watching a TV screen, but there’s no reception, just dots of colour. “It’s this incredibly personal expression of literally a handful of people onstage, doing this thing that originated in a garage, on a stage the size of a fucking skyscraper. “It’s so insane,” he continues, with the world’s widest grin still stretched out across his face. Sat in the London office of Kerrang!, fighting the jetlag courtesy of his flight from Australia, the Parkway Drive frontman is reliving what he believes to be the greatest show of his life: the band’s epic headline set at Wacken festival in Germany last year – the mecca for all things heavy. I’m standing there thinking, ‘What are we doing?!’ Realising that you’re connecting with that many people is hard to wrap your head around – being the catalyst for that community.” “I was watching the relay towers – because the sound is delayed going back, everyone jumps at different times – and it was these waves going all the way to the horizon. "When we played Bottom Feeder, the whole fucking place jumped,” smiles Winston McCall.
