Strictly all-meat-no-filler metalcore, the second album by Australian outfit Parkway Drive is the sort of solidly efficient album that keeps terms like "solidly efficient" from sounding like faint praise.
The five-piece led by singer Winston McCall, along with producer Adam Dutkiewicz (who between his ongoing tenure in Killswitch Engage and his side career as one of metalcore's most in-demand producers is turning into the style's equivalent of high-profile indie producer Chris Walla), keep the songs stripped down to bare essentials, right down to the largely under three-minute song lengths.
Similarly, McCall's vocals avoid the more comical extremes of the traditional metalcore bark while maintaining a suitably aggressive presence, while the band's lockstep rhythm section (bassist Jia O'Connor and drummer Ben Gordon) and unison-riff specialist guitarists Jeff Ling and Luke Kilpatrick fire off each track with enough energy to compensate for the general sameness of approach.
As a result, Horizons is strictly by the book metalcore, but delivered with enough talent and passion to put across a set of songs that might easily come off as samey and dull in less capable hands.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Begin | Parkway Drive | Play | 00:48 | 1 MB | 4 MB |
| 2 | The Sirens' Song | Parkway Drive | Play | 03:04 | 7 MB | 23 MB |
| 3 | Feed Them to the Pigs | Parkway Drive | Play | 02:35 | 5 MB | 19 MB |
| 4 | Carrion | Parkway Drive | Play | 03:08 | 7 MB | 23 MB |
| 5 | Five Months | Parkway Drive | Play | 04:02 | 9 MB | 30 MB |
| 6 | Boneyards | Parkway Drive | Play | 03:15 | 7 MB | 24 MB |
| 7 | Idols and Anchors | Parkway Drive | Play | 03:48 | 8 MB | 28 MB |
| 8 | Moments in Oblivion | Parkway Drive | Play | 01:43 | 3 MB | 12 MB |
| 9 | Breaking Point | Parkway Drive | Play | 03:38 | 8 MB | 27 MB |
| 10 | Dead Man's Chest | Parkway Drive | Play | 03:21 | 7 MB | 24 MB |
| 11 | Frostbite | Parkway Drive | Play | 03:35 | 8 MB | 27 MB |
| 12 | Horizons | Parkway Drive | Play | 05:39 | 12 MB | 41 MB |
| 38 mins | 88 MB | |||||
| 38 mins | 286 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pete Abordi | Guest Artist, Vocals |
| 2 | Tom Baker | Mastering |
| 3 | Adam Dutkiewicz | Audio Engineer, Audio Production, Engineer, Mixing, Producer |
| 4 | Jim "Labs" Fogarty | Audio Engineer |
| 5 | Jim Fogarty | Assistant Engineer |
| 6 | Ben Gordon | Drums, Member of Attributed Artist |
| 7 | Luke Kilpatrick | Guitar, Guitars, Member of Attributed Artist |
| 8 | Reverend Jeff Ling | Guitar, Guitars, Member of Attributed Artist |
| 9 | Winston McCall | Member of Attributed Artist, Vocals |
| 10 | Jia O'Connor | Bass, Guitar (Bass), Member of Attributed Artist |
| 11 | Parkway Drive | Primary Artist |
| 12 | Ben Pobjoy | Photography |
| 13 | Slo Han Tu-Dix | Guest Artist, Guitar, Soloist |
| 14 | Glennie Whittall | Illustrations |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |