Parkway Drive Unveils Concert Film HOME, Built Around a Sydney Opera House Show
Australian metal band Parkway Drive has a new concert film called HOME, and its climax is a one-off night at the Sydney Opera House. The band played that show in June 2025 with a full symphony orchestra behind it, according to Billboard.
The film was directed by Allan Hardy and Macario De Souza and produced by Hype Republic. Mushroom Studios is distributing it. Billboard reports that HOME follows the band's path from underdogs in the metal scene to a group with big stage and chart success. Parkway Drive formed in Byron Bay, New South Wales, in 2003. Its 2007 album Horizons reached No. 27 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart, a ranking for developing acts.
The Opera House show was self-funded, meaning the band paid for it rather than a label or promoter. Tickets sold out in three minutes. The band had one full dress rehearsal with the orchestra, four hours before the performance. The single "Sacred" came out a few weeks before the show.
The film also shows frontman Winston McCall abseiling 150 feet (about 46 metres) from a helicopter onto a platform only two feet wide, set on one of the building's famous sails. Few concert films include a stunt of that kind, and HOME puts it near the centre of the story.
The band's most recent studio album, Darker Still, came out in 2022. It gave Parkway Drive a third consecutive No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, Australia's official album ranking compiled by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The album also won the ARIA Award for best hard rock or heavy metal album.
A companion live album to HOME is also on the way, Billboard reports.
For fans who missed the Opera House show, the film offers a way to see the set, the rehearsal pressure and the sails stunt in one place. For anyone who follows the business side, it is a rare look at a band that funded a major show on its own terms and sold it out in minutes.
