Parkway Drive - "Vice Grip" (REACTION!!!)

[@Hoopsick]

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[@jcgmusic16]

Now react to Crushed from the same album. Great reaction btw.

[@rstein5432]

@@jcgmusic16 But than live @Wacken! kzbin.info/www/bejne/pX_YaGhmg72Veqc

[@peacelovemetal5197]

I appreciate the honesty as always, even if I don't necessarily agree with you. Honestly is very lacking in reaction videos and I love that you've maintained that despite the rapid channel growth! Keep it up man!

[@filipkuhn9879]

This is a song that just shows PWD´s ability to write festival anthems....You have to see them life to really apreciate songs like this!

[@phatsnag]

DEEP BLUE ALBUM REACTION!

[@LuisRamos-hk2in]

why so low?

[@Kilgore2k12]

This album (IRE) and the horizons album you have reacted to is 8 yrs apart.. a lot of things happen and transition between their 2nd & 5th album.. gotta react to crushed, dedicated, fractures & deathless song, all in the same album. I agree this is the softest song they release in recent years but it's so good at live..

[@BetterLifeInc17]

Dedicated, man. What a breakdown

[@jasonhill9680]

As someone who has been fortunate enough to see these guys live, the excitement and energy was off the charts when they played this. Not their typical style but audience participation and singing along made this amazing live. It’s all about perspective though.

[@phils6567]

Swing - the breakdown will hurt

[@michel.n4586]

love ur honesty, most of the reaction channels lack that, keep it up

[@L1LJJO]

Do crushes or dedicated next. I would say dedicated but crushes is a decent one too off of that album

[@xXxARCHANGELxXx2]

*Crushed

[@alexrogan4383]

Parkway drive - home is for the heartless

[@TechnicalDickov]

yes this is the one to do next, no one reacts to it but its the best from Deep Blue album

[@michaeltodd7008]

IT SHOWS THEY HAVE SOME VERSATILITY...LOVE THIS SONG...A POSITIVE MESSAGE...IT WAS GREAT LIVE....

[@joshtowe95]

Phinehas "i am the lion"

[@FrankReynolds182]

I LOVE this one! This song is a great anthem live. It lets the whole crowd get involved.

[@thirdhendrix6370]

That’s what I said can’t really get a feel for this song until you see this live!!

[@lukeslayer]

Crushed next please!! Fun fact, there was a petition to make this Australias national anthem hahaha 🇦🇺🦘🤘

[@foxwolf316]

I'm surprissed that he wasn't amused that they jump off an air plain sky diving, as there flying back down to earth, when I'm seeing people react to this, I'm like are they seeing what's going on here?

[@kuneefay]

1..2..3.. DELIVER ME (Live in London). I get the idea of arena dad rock but man, their stuff from Deep Blue and Atlas is the business.

[@158102262]

Deep blue and atlas are favorites!! And you guessed it. Deliver me is my favorite song!

[@LuisRamos-hk2in]

sonisphere 2011 is better imo, deep blue is so good from start to finish

[@aaronwaldron9273]

Do swing by Parkway the best circle pit song 🤘

[@pascalj1017]

this band is some aussie dudes havin the blast of their life, this video shows more of how they really are than all the "dark mad metal" clips of them. sure its a brutal band usually, but THIS is how they are in person, havin fun, enjoyin life :) i love it

[@quieteyes881]

The more radio friendly songs attract a wider audience. People who don't even like heavier stuff will listen to them, so they'll tend to have more views.

[@RodekkkOnly]

The thing is, they got rather big in 2015 and were invited to headline festivals (1h+ setlists) and they apparently quickly realized its not doable to do 1:15 portion of heavy/fast paced songs every other night for 3-4 weeks straight and decided to write these unoriginal "stadium" filler songs to the setlist to catch a break and being somewhat consistent in their performance. Also they stated that they were tired of playing metalcore and didn´t have any motivation to write similiar material (understandable after 10+ years), however the people seem to dig it and they reached a wider audience so good for them I guess. Me personally, I prefer the more original and brutal stuff that got them where they are now.

[@klayshotter]

I have to say I don’t agree with you but respect your decision, As a musician myself Ii personally am drawn to the more simpler style songs musically like this song vice grip, chronos or crushed for example, in my opinion song like these that are on the more simpler/easier side are more enjoyable to listen to. I much prefer parkway drives music now compared to the earlier stuff.

[@hardcoreforlife231]

I do love old parkway but I also love the newer sounding albums. This one is the most radio friendly one imo. The void, crushed, wishing wells, bottom feeder, and I hope you rot are great songs off their last two albums.

[@SwiftTnT]

They do have some good songs that are new lol. Wishing wells and crushed are sweet

[@redheadlover7160]

Absolutely spot on review dude

[@BDawborn]

Personally I like the new stuff as much as the old even though it's very different. I think it adds a nice bit of variety when I listen through their albums chronologically.

[@avnc10]

Crushed is one of their most listened songs and it's a lot heavier. And from the same album. They have a whole catalogue of different sounds even in the same album. And yes they have ballads ahaha

[@bonnorman9149]

Can see the disappointment written all over your face lol

[@BrotherDave80]

NEW FFAK just dropped!! Check out their new song "Prophet" or "Stockholm"

[@chrisscott820]

Overall the album was not if of my debited by them, but Stockholm and Vendetta where my favorite songs

[@Beartooth.12]

Crushed is a good song to check out

[@SLipKnoT6665666]

you have to do „The Void“ live at wacken!! 😎 its my favorite song from PD😁

[@tommygunraw_6566]

I am completely with you on this from the perspective i have right now. But when i started listening to metal - and PWD was one of the very first bands i listened to - this really really helped me out understanding Winston and screaming in general. If you listen to this kind of music long enough you completely oversee that a song like this is still very hard and loud and not so easily comprehensible for a lot of people that are new to the music. I appreciate that they have songs to bring people in. But i hope those stay the rarer exceptions^^

[@chrisscott820]

My man, big fan of the channel, but it's been long enough. You need these on your channel. Infant Annihilator - Unholy Gravebirth or Blasphemian Hollow Prophet(deathcore super group) - Infernal Cleansing Spite - Kill or Be Killed Hunt the Dinosaur - Destructo Methwitch - Burn Victim Black Tongue - Parting Soliloquy Orbit Culture - North Star of Nija Amon Amarth - As Loke Falls

[@trevorboheler6507]

Gotta react to crushed!!!! Straight banger!!

[@ManG1aze]

With IRE Parkway really wanted to hit a whole new sound in each song, and inspire people where they felt inspiration was needed in todays world, while also making the most versatile metalcore album in rock history. I would live a reaction the the album as a whole, it really makes you appreciate everything they shot for in this album.

[@daanishafzal5171]

Most of the Parkway tracks I initially heard were similar to this so I never really gave them a shot. Recently gave deep blue and horizons a spin, much more enjoyable and solid metalcore.

[@jakubgodlewski9104]

I mean that is just a catchy, radio-friendly song, like you said.. it's bound to be more popular, especially since it's from an album that came out when PWD were at the peak of their career. The whole album is softer honestly, not as soft as this, but significantly less heavy than older things or their newest album.

[@stevemac6744]

Karma is their best. Must react to it 🤘

[@ethangutierrez1178]

You’ll love swing

[@michaeltodd7008]

Saw this live and phenomenal.

[@seeeeeb9300]

A slower cool song by them from the same album is "deathless song". my favourite from IRE

[@MVPheonix]

It’s an anthem song, they have a few of these now, The Void and Prey I’d say are the other 2, you have to see them live to because they mix it in between to keep the energy up and get the crowd involved, and I they’ve been a band for 19 or 20 years now, they’ve said before they could make another generic metal album but that would be boring for them so yes they did change but they’ve been trying new things while keeping ties to their roots and for that I continue to have PWD as one of my absolute favorite bands.

[@Alexander.90]

I love this song, but i agree that it's simple in the way the lyrics goes. But the story of the video is actually cool. The whole band skydives from a plane, they did 4 practice dives before recording the 5 dive (The one in the video) and they've never done this before. You should watch their documentary which is on YT (Home is for the heartless). As much as they are musicians, they are also travelers with a huge hunger for new experiences and i think that reflects in this music video.

[@jordanwendell6279]

Walking on coals talking shit on vice grip 😂 phenomenal song. Love the honesty tho.

[@andresgarcia-perez8460]

It may be basic but this song slaps live. Parkway Drive honestly doesn't have a bad song, in my opinion.

[@kristen1758]

DARK DAYS AND SWING ON ATLAS PLEASE

[@glebpl7068]

well, the market for softer music is much bigger than for heavier music. so yeah, Vice Grip is more like by general public, and (just fore example) Boneyards - by metal fans.

[@G_oiler67]

Yeah Parkway has taken the hard mainstream turn in my opinion. Not what I want to hear from them but I guess that is where the money is at

[@glebpl7068]

it nice, once in a while in all these reaction video to find some critique :-) usually everybody is just praising everything so it gets annoying, like they like all the shit they listen too))

[@jayscollops]

Song for radio and a video for MTV rocks

[@raidenreloadet5850]

Why can't i find "Dark Days" by them on your channel??? Haven't you reacted to it yet????

[@mattthompson5908]

I love their song chronos

[@MC-tu4rf]

This song is definitely so much better live. I dont know if it's the video dumbing everything down or they just amp everything up live but there's no comparison between the 2.

[@itsweetabixday7550]

If you want to listen to Horizons all day long, fill your boots. Think the Beatles sounded the same 8 years after releasing "Love Me Do"?!

[@abdullahalsultan4652]

Lmao ikr that yea yea yea rubbed me the wrong way too

[@ollybausor9384]

Fully Agree Hoopsick my man! And so do the majority of the Harcore PWD fans who've been there since Killing with a Smile like me! They don't even play any tracks off the first album anymore.... Winston hates the lyrics? Agree, the sound has changed, more mainstream, this track epitomises the new sound 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@mattthompson5908]

Just because its the most viewed doesn't necessarily mean its the most popular. You gotta watch it at least once to find out if you like it. Like if there was statistics for how many times a person has watched it. For example you would see ive watched vice grip probably 4 or 5 times compared to wild eyes probably like 50 times lol

[@LuisRamos-hk2in]

React to deep blue album, the album after horizons imo their best album it goes really hard and melodic :)

[@anotherlife6334]

Cypcore-Dissatisfactory

[@leemartinez99]

From a marketing standpoint, bands need that not so heavy/screaming especially for radio play. For example, Killswitch engage, their older stuff when Howard was in the band, they had a lot of songs that were different specifically for radio play and what not but the album version was totally different.

[@JT-ne8du]

Watch the “Karma” video

[@finfan_ttv]

Monochromatic black new song is a must reaction!!

[@RobertMullineux]

Such a sick music video this one 👍 but I still prefer horizons sound more haha

[@bert3840]

You should react to their song "The River"

[@roadhauled7826]

Do sleepwalker or, unrest from the deep blue album! You'd like them! (Massive breakdown in unrest) 😉

[@TheFalloutShot96]

Pressures is their best work. Give it a reaction please

[@ginnydileo5168]

It makes me sad how much hate this song gets. I love it and I love them.

[@BigBev121]

Cos this song is trash. Their worst most boring mainstream song

[@LuisRamos-hk2in]

Its so cheesy and far from their best work, if you listen to all pwd discography youll realize it

[@elviscotalramos3805]

this song is mazing

[@davidsolis3326]

This song is worthy of a Trash Tuesday video

[@papachiefo]

If you want a better Parkway Drive music video keen to the ones you are used to with that intensity and passion that you have come to know from Parkway, check out Karma. Or Deliver Me from Wacken.

[@LastingImpressionbenkawizx]

The cleaner songs do better because its more accessible... brings in a wider audience...

[@guitardjent2005ozzy]

You should react to Chronos by Parkway Drive as well

[@Alexander.90]

He did

[@redheadlover7160]

Agree completely, sound has changed so much and lyrics are wack and recycled and is total dad rock

[@delinquent1817]

Yeah.... Yeah... Yeah... (3 stepping0 This is extremely popular because it is so pleasant to the ear.. if you listen to most of the modern songs probably about 80% of the tops hits include this method, either via vocals or instruments...I do agree it is annoying but anyway that denies that it is pleasant is just lying because its literally made to sound nice lol

[@edwardhunter5310]

Not the biggest fan of IRE. But i saw them playing these songs live in 2016 and they were absolute killer. When i first heard this song i was also disappointed 😄

[@matnus3720]

Please react to Crushed by Parkway Drive

[@hexagraph3806]

Top Gun parody ?

[@davidriddick82]

This is their most radio friendly song and it’s really not what people expect from Parkway Drive. Your reaction is very similar to mine when I first heard it, the lyrics are very meaningful but in terms of heavy this is not it unfortunately

[@madlenerichson1793]

Please hear songs bevore IRE ... deadweight or deliver me .... the hole deep blue album is perfekt!!! I think , it is for you,too

[@johnflint7743]

Agree. Like a new band the last 2 albums. :(

[@VahisMX]

This always reminds me of that one Nickelback song.. Stand Together or something.

[@TEXAS_SKOLDIER]

I think the vibe you’re lookin for is the song “Crushed”... Was hooked on it for a good while And not saying ALL bands do this, but a lot of bands that I used to listen to a lot, that were super heavy, a lot of them turn to more main stream sound and it drives me nuts! Asking Alexandria used to have a completely different sound then they do now and I hate it! All That Remains is another band that did it.

[@MattJFilms]

Used to be a die hard PWD fan, but ever since IRE I haven’t enjoyed them one bit unfortunately. Like many other old fans, their new stuff just comes across as generic radio shit. Doesn’t feel like Winston is pouring his soul into his writing or singing. Really makes you wonder what happened in the 4 years between “Atlas” and “IRE”. Atlas was such an enjoyable album personally. It still had serious head bangers like “Dream Run” or “Swing”, but then they had those really beautiful slower songs like “The River” or “Atlas.” The slower songs were different, but they had that raw, authentic emotion still. I guess it goes back to that old saying of “be happy that old PWD ever happened, instead of dwelling on what PWD became.”

[@dwreck3686]

DUDE I completely understand what you mean.. The played this all the freaking time on Octane SXM radio,, Drove me nuts didn't get into it all that much as I did their other music.

[@E92M3]

anything after Deep Blue sucks. its all "stadium" metal with chants and so on

[@ethangutierrez1178]

You’re dumb if think atlas and ire aren’t good

[@E92M3]

@@ethangutierrez1178 that's not a valid counter argument. Sorry.

[@LuisRamos-hk2in]

@@E92M3 atlas is really good, id say after atlas they changed but its still really good, its just different

[@E92M3]

@@LuisRamos-hk2in Some tracks on Atlas were ok but anyone who says IRE was good should get checked by their local doctor. same goes for Reverence

[@phatsnag]

@@E92M3 Blue and the Grey is probably the most criminally underrated pwd song despite being off Atlas

[@158102262]

By far my least favorite album they've put out. Just my opinion though

[@jordanbeaumont4267]

Northlane 4d or rot

[@jakubgodlewski9104]

I suggest reacting to either the entirety of this album (IRE) or the Revenence (the newest one). They are both really good albums, yet much different from Horizons. (I'm checking out the whole playlist at once btw :D)

[@BigBev121]

I disagree, do not listen to either of these albums. Their both weak and trash. Do all of deep blue. Thats worth it.

[@xXxARCHANGELxXx2]

Ugh I hate when people react to this song. Obviously there's no way to know before you listen but it's just so weak compared to their other songs! :( Definitely toward the bottom of the list

[@xXxARCHANGELxXx2]

PS your comments about how annoying it is that this is their most popular video, I agree with 100%. I'm glad you kinda felt that too

[@xXxARCHANGELxXx2]

PPS most of your comments I agree with. I forgot that you are quite familiar with them already so I'm happy that this didn't turn you off from them

[@zeldamaster3748]

Winston said during this album that they have “matured past metalcore” they still follow this trend in their new album. This band has ascended past metalcore and has become just a bunch of friends jammin out. I believe that songs like these are better than all of their older albums, yes they are not as heavy but these songs show that they have matured from edgy “scremo” type songs to metal Athems

[@camoronL]

You could have just said you prefer their new stuff without shitting on their old work and calling it "edgy screamo." That dumbassery just shows you're not very familiar with metalcore.

[@BigBev121]

This is why we said "dont listen to new parkway" its fucking trash. Its to appease mainstream wankers with basic riffs that isnt to heavy. This is by far their worst song along with everything on the latest album. Parkway died after deep blue.

[@flukemebloodybothering.9054]

Big fan of PD but this song is lame AF, however crushed which is on the same album is one of my all time favorites. It's epic.

[@338wm9]

This song would be their weakest song.. not a shit song but not a good song... there’s way better songs on the ‘IRE’ album.. not just crushed or bottom feeder which are bangers..but songs like dying to believe, dedicated,... even the lyrical content to writings on the wall and its tone

[@OhWord3]

They’ve progressively gotten worse over time. Sucks to see.

[@ih8urband]

I hate the chorus of this song, but like the rest