PARKWAY DRIVE ANNOUNCE 20th ANNIVERSARY TOUR
The Byron Bay legends will be joined on the road by I Prevail, The Ghost Inside and Void of Vision.
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Heavy metal music fans get excited: Parkway Drive is back! Two decades after bursting onto the Aussie metalcore scene, Parkway Drive returns home for their biggest headline tour to date. The ‘20 Year Anniversary Tour’ will hit five cities across Australia, with the Byron Bay lads playing stadium shows in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.Celebrating the band’s 20th anniversary, the tour will be a brand new production, with Parkway Drive performing songs from across their storied career. Making things extra special is the addition of international and local support acts. Michigan post-hardcore rockers I Prevail, Californian melodic metalcore act The Ghost Inside and Melbourne heavy hitters Void of Vision will be joining Parkway Drive on the tour. In a press release announcing the tour, Parkway Drive vocalist Winston McCall offered some words about Parkway Drive’s return and the upcoming tour.“Australia, it’s been a while. To be honest, it feels like forever. We didn’t plan it to be this way, but then again we didn’t plan on making it this far in the first place. So here it is, we’re finally back, with the biggest headlining tour we have done, anywhere, ever, full stop. A celebration of a 20 year journey, of the roads we have walked through, the generations, to the path we still define, our own. 20 years, through blood sweat and tears. Still Australian, still unbreakable. Australia, turn the fuck up and make us proud, this is one for the history books.”From Byron Bay teenage metalheads to an unstoppable global force, Parkway Drive is hands down one of Australia’s greatest bands of the 21st century. With seven full-length albums under their belt, three consecutive #1 releases on the ARIA Albums Chart (2015's Ire, 2018's Reverence and 2022's Darker Still) and multiple ARIA wins throughout their career, the five-piece has cemented themselves in Aussie music folklore. Not only are they huge Down Under, but Parkway Drive has achieved worldwide success, with several top-ten charting albums in Europe, three critically acclaimed documentaries and millions of streams globally. But if you want to fully immerse yourself in the Parkway Drive experience, you have to catch their live show. Over the years they have gained a formidable live reputation that’s led to the band headlining festivals such as Wacken Open Air, So What?! Festival, and Australia’s Good Things Festival, along with sharing the stage with the likes of metal greats Lamb Of God, Soulfly and Killswitch Engage.Support act I Prevail are no slouches either, with the platinum-certified rockers ready to unleash on Australian audiences with their energetic live show. With billions of streams and close to 400 million views on YouTube, the five-piece will be playing hits from across their entire career.Californian act The Ghost Inside has been through the wringer since forming in 2004. Their debut album Fury and the Fallen Ones quickly got them noticed and it wasn’t long until the band became fan favourites of the metalcore scene. But a tragic bus accident while on tour in 2015 resulted in The Ghost Inside taking a four-year hiatus before triumphantly returning in 2019. They’ve since continued to record and tour, with their sixth album Searching for Solace set for release this April. Australia’s metal scene is in good hands with the likes of Void of Vision leading the charge. The Melbourne band has been out there getting it done for over a decade. They performed at the first-ever Knotfest in 2023 alongside Slipknot and are riding high after the release of their third album, 2023’s Chronicles. This is one tour you don’t want to miss, so make sure you secure your tickets for Parkway Drive at AEC Arena this September.Early bird pre-sale tickets will be available on Tuesday 26 March at 8:30 am local time. To gain access to these tickets register here: https://daltours.cc/PWD20Yrs.General tickets go on sale Thursday 28 March at 9 am local time via Destroy All Lines. Parkway Drive 20 Year Anniversary Australian Tour
with special guests I Prevail, The Ghost Inside and Void of Vision
Friday 20 September – Brisbane Entertainment Centre, BrisbaneSaturday 21 September – Qudos Bank Arena, SydneySunday 22 September – John Cain Arena, MelbourneFriday 27 September – AEC Arena, AdelaideSunday 29 September – HBF Stadium, Perth
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