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HOW MANY FIVE-YEAR-OLDS COULD YOU TAKE IN A FIGHT?

LOVE ’EM OR loathe ’em, Parkway Drive are the southern hemisphere’s biggest metal band. New album Darker Still has reaffirmed the Aussie metalcore brutes as arena-level stars in the UK and Europe: a seismic achievement considering the band almost broke up while making it. In answering your questions, singer Winston McCall delves deep into Parkway’s three-year hiatus. He also ends up chatting about surfing onto a shark, making his crew throw up and how many infants he thinks he can pummel in one go…

How do you deal with the hardcore and metal elitists/gatekeepers?

Chris Parker, Facebook

“I don’t. Ha ha! I don’t deal with them at all. My only interaction with anyone in this world is when they come up to me and say hi at a gig or a signing or something. I have genuine human interaction and it’s only ever been

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