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Defined by furious riffing, relentless drum acrobatics, and frontman Winston McCall’s ferocious roar, Parkway Drive’s second album is perhaps the standard-bearer for Aussie metalcore. “Boneyards” and “Carrion” deliver thrashy rhythms and harmonic squeals; the skull-pounding breakdowns of “Dead Man’s Chest” and “The Siren’s Song” provide maximum pit fodder; and the tapping runs of “Idols and Anchors” and the clean, chiming guitars of the title track cement the band’s reputation as dynamic songwriters at the top of their field.

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.