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Winston, you canceled a North American tour in order to focus on healing within the band. It is that sense of helplessness and the small nature of what we hold to be our little slice of reality, and as soon as the barriers come down to that and the mind is unleashed it's truly terrifying.

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The fact that you can still be at the mercy of your own body and what that can actually do to the concept of fear and the concept of terror in general, it's the ultimate existential dread, which I think every good horror movie or anything to do with the human psyche always tries to capture. It's something that I find to be captivating in its unknown. That's something that's not only fascinating, but also terrifying to people. Oh man, it's such a fascinating thing because when you witness these events or it's part of your life in general, you realize how powerful the human mind is and how much control it has over the very fabric of the way we perceive reality. What intrigues you most about the subliminal function of the human mind? The latest single 'Glitch' is about night terrors and sleep paralysis. This album, I'm not even gonna mince words, but it pushed us way further than we would ever have gone friendship wise to the point where it almost broke the entire band and that dynamic in general. This is too safe.' So that's kind of it to me, to be honest, and we've got it down pretty well. It's just trying to ride that line of not the other people off, but at the same point in time, making sure you're poking them enough going, 'No, not far enough. So when it all comes together, we find that it always heightens whatever the individual goal is in the first place, which is great. And we all have our own very varied places that we draw influence from which we drag in, which kind of no one else in the band hits individually. And we kind of push it and prod each other with basically everything that we either have influence wise or everything we want to do within the band itself. You do one thing and play a thousand shows of one song and you kind of decide you wanna do something else to add to what you do.įor us, it's just a constant push and pull between the three main writing members, which is myself, Jeff, our lead guitarist and Ben, our drummer. I think any time you get a bit too comfortable for us, we kind of get bored a little bit. Yeah, that's an interesting one because you're trying to walk that line of familiarity and knowing what works, but also trying to push yourself into I'm gonna say more uncomfortable places so you can try and expand what you do. What have you done to cultivate creative spontaneity in an environment of such great familiarity? It's your seventh album over the course of being together for nearly 20 years. What we tried to accomplish, the types of songs we tried to write and put onto an album and the scope of the entire thing is much broader than anything we've done before. So how far do you want to go with it? And for us it was like, 'Well, if you're not gonna have another shot at this, you may as well go as far as possible in terms of sonic changes and everything you wanna commit to.' So it leads itself to being a very varied album in terms of the sonic pallet. This could be the last thing you ever do. But when we started writing, we approached it with a no holds barred. Now it turns out everything's up and rolling again. So in terms of us writing, we're like, 'Well, if we're only gonna write one more album, what do you want to actually write?' Basically the entire world kind of thought this could be it, like this literally could be it for the entire world. I'm sure every single band kind of says that every time they do an album, but for us, we started writing this during year one of COVID craziness, and when all that was going on, basically we had the entire music industry shut down. (Laughs) where do I start on this one? Basically this album pushes the boundaries of what we've done as a band and what we can do as a band further than anything we've done previously. Winston, what's different about this album in terms of challenging yourselves with greater creative expectations? We're here to celebrate the release of the new Parkway Drive record Darker Still, which is out now. That led to a cancelled tour earlier this year, and McCall speaks to how they've adapted in the time since to hopefully make their future a healthier one. The pandemic also had another effect on the group, forcing them to take a closer look at how they communicated with one another and realizing a change had to be made.

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