Winston mccall biography

Winston Thomas McCall (nascido em 06 de setembro de em Byron Bay, New South Wales, Austrália) é um australiano, vocalista, compositor e membro fundador da banda australiana de MetalcoreParkway Drive e de sua banda paralela de Hardcore punk Rain Dogs. McCall é uns dos poucos vocalistas de metalcore moderno a renunciar vocais limpos. Ele segue um estilo de vida Straight edge e também é vegetariano.

Biografia

Cresceu em Byron Bay, na Austrália, os interesses de McCall incluem surf e bodyboard. McCall tem várias tatuagens em seu corpo, incluindo "BBHC" em seu braço esquerdo, representando "Byron Bay Hardcore scene" que a sua banda Parkway Drive faz parte do movimento.

Winston McCall formou Parkway Drive no final de com Luke Kilpatrick, Jeff Ling, Ben Gordon e o primeiro baixista Brett Versteeg em Byron Bay, ensaiava na casa de um dos membros o chamado "Parkway House". McCall escreveu todas as canções do Parkway, e tem sido o vocalista desde o início da banda. Com sua banda ele lançou quatro álbum de estúdio, o álbum Deep Blue em ganhou o ARIA AWARD de Melhor Rock/Álbum e disco de Heavy Metal e foi certificado de ouro em vendas pelo ARIA e o Atlas também foi certificado de ouro em vendas pelo ARIA em

McCall formou a sua banda paralela Rain Dogs com o ex-baixista Kevin Call do Comeback Kid, eles lançaram uma demo em Irmão mais novo de McCall, Oscar McCall, é o vocalista do grupo de Hardcore punk, 50 Lions.

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That term has long been synonymous with Parkway Drive, ever since the song Wild Eyes from album Atlas featured the immortal line, ‘Viva the underdogs’. Soon it became a war cry, and now it’s the title of their new documentary movie. The feature-length doc follows the band on their landmark summer trek across Europe to their climax at Wacken – from initial planning meetings about ambitious pyrotechnics to its eventual execution – glued together with candid footage of what it’s really like within the touring machine.

“Over the past couple of years people are flocking to see movies about the rock industry – Bohemian Rhapsody, Rocketman, The Dirt – from an era that predates the digital revolution,” says Winston. “While there might be a bunch of fans from back then who can relate to that, we wanted to put out something that would make people go, ‘Oh, this is what it’s like being in a band.’

“It might not be a story of private jets, piles of coke and spiralling into madness, but it’s real.”

Viva The Underdogs is Parkway’s third documentary, following on from ’s Home Is For The Heartless. A lot has changed in that time, however, most noticeably the sheer scale of their operation these days.

“You rock up to the first production meeting for the tour with the same five guys that you shared vans and scrounged for food with back in the day, and then you look around and 48 other people are now involved, and you think, ‘Fuck! This is big.’”

Frankly, it’s staggering that Parkway have even made it this far. Not through lack of talent or ambition, but circumstance and adversity. When the band started, their hometown had the highest unemployment rate in all of Australia. Back then, Winston was flipping burgers in a café, Ben (Gordon, drums) and Jia (O’Connor, bass) were washing dishes in a pizza shop, while Jeff (Ling, guitar) worked in a video store and Luke (Kilpatrick, guitar) was growing wheatgrass for a juice company.

They had to make a choice. Nobody was going t

Australian metalcore band

Parkway Drive are an Australian metalcore band from Byron Bay, New South Wales, formed in Parkway Drive have released seven studio albums, one EP, two DVDs, a split album and one book, titled Ten Years of Parkway Drive. The band's latest three albums have reached number 1 of the Australian ARIA Charts – Ire (), Reverence (), and Darker Still ().

The band's line-up has been consistent since the addition of bassist Jia O'Connor in , with Brett Versteeg having left in and Shaun Cash in

History

Early years and Killing with a Smile (–)

Main article: Killing with a Smile

Parkway Drive were formed at the beginning of The band took their name from the street where their home rehearsal space and live venue, 'The Parkway House', was located. The documentary Parkway Drive: The DVD explains that there was a lack of venues for punk rock and hardcore punk bands to practice and perform and that 'Parkway House' was like 'a little oasis for us and all our friends'. The group played their first show at the Byron Bay Youth Centre where I Killed the Prom Queen vocalist Michael Crafter, visiting from Adelaide, also first saw the group and gained their interest. The I Killed the Prom Queen / Parkway Drive: Split CD was released June and both groups toured Australia over the rest of the year. After signing with Resist Records, the band released the Don't Close Your Eyes EP in and opened for Shadows Fall, Chimaira, Hatebreed and Alexisonfire on subsequent Australian tours. Winston McCall commented on the EP in early that he was surprised that "for six songs it's done amazing for usI'm surprised that kids picked it up so well." Following Brett Versteeg's replacement by Shaun Cash, Parkway Drive flew to the United States where they recorded their debut full-length Killing with a Smile with Killswitch Engage guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz in