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Parkway Drive are going back to where it all started with some rare intimate album shows this August.
After spending the last few years headlining arenas, setting stages on fire and casually becoming one of the biggest heavy bands on the planet, the Byron Bay titans are doing something nobody really saw coming: shrinking it all back down.
Parkway Drive – Horizons (Full Album Stream)
This August, the Byron Bay heavyweights will hit intimate venues around Australia for Killing Horizons – a special run of album shows celebrating two of the most important records in Australian heavy music history.
Each city gets a two-night residency. Night one will see Parkway perform 2005’s Killing With A Smile in full. Night two? 2007’s Horizons front to back. And because apparently that still wasn’t enough emotional damage for one evening, both nights will also feature a selection of the band’s biggest tunes spanning the rest of their catalogue.
Translation: this is probably the closest many fans will ever get to time travelling back to an era of basketball shorts, side fringes and learning breakdown counts via MSN display names.
Frontman Winston McCall says the idea came together while revisiting material from their early years.
“This idea kicked off when we started working on the KWAS medley for our last tour,” he said. “Revisiting Killing With A Smile with a fresh perspective lit a spark that remained after we finished up, so we figured rather than let the spark die, let’s take it and create something special.”
And for anyone worried this might just be a greatest hits set disguised as nostalgia bait – apparently not.
“For all the people who have waited to hear these songs live again, for all the people that never got the chance to see these two albums on stage, for ourselves reconnecting with the core energy at the heart of this band, this tour is for all of us.”
“Some of these songs haven’t been played live in over a decade, some have never been played at all.”
That last bit feels particularly cooked when you remember who we’re talking about here.
This is a band that celebrated its 20th anniversary with sold-out arena runs, followed it up by becoming the first heavy band to perform with a full symphony orchestra at the Sydney Opera House, then spent late 2025 steamrolling through their biggest European arena tour to date.
And now? They’re heading back into venues the size of rooms they’d probably headline in Europe accidentally.
Honestly, there’s something very full-circle about it. Just Parkway Drive and the records that helped build Australian metalcore.
Tickets go on sale Thursday 25 June at 12pm local time and you can peep all the details down below.
PARKWAY DRIVE – KILLING HORIZONS AUSTRALIA 2026 TOUR
Perth – Metro City
Saturday 1 August – Killing With A Smile
Sunday 2 August – Horizons
Adelaide – Hindley Street Music Hall
Tuesday 4 August – Killing With A Smile
Wednesday 5 August – Horizons
Melbourne – Forum
Sunday 9 August – Killing With A Smile
Monday 10 August – Horizons
Sydney – Enmore Theatre
Wednesday 12 August – Killing With A Smile
Thursday 13 August – Horizons
Brisbane – Fortitude Music Hall
Saturday 15 August – Killing With A Smile
Sunday 16 August – Horizons
Tickets for all shows go on sale on Thursday 25 June at 12pm local via livenation.com.au
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