Simply the best album i've ever heard.
AB's my favorite band of all time, their music is complex, melodic, epic, technical, various style etc...
Fortress was in my opinion the best album of all time and i didn't think the last hero could be better but i was wrong. It took me numerous listen to fully appreciate every song of the album (beside one..) so don't judge it to quickly.
AsSimply the best album i've ever heard.
AB's my favorite band of all time, their music is complex, melodic, epic, technical, various style etc...
Fortress was in my opinion the best album of all time and i didn't think the last hero could be better but i was wrong. It took me numerous listen to fully appreciate every song of the album (beside one..) so don't judge it to quickly.
As far as the album is concerned :
First of all, it has a unique sound and style, as usual, alter bridge delivers an album that doesnt sound like the previous ones. It has also a true cohesivness inbetween the songs. They are not repetitive but it feels like they belong in the same theme and sound and that's pretty great. The overall sounding is dark and dramaticly epic but with some brighter songs as well
the vocals and lyrics are really great just like in fortess but maybe a bit more high and sensible in a way.
The solos are really great but not as great as fortress. There are some solos that are mindblowing like the two in this side of fate or in the title track but overall i liked fortress solos better.
A lot of the songs in the album are among AB's best : there is big epic chorus, epic solos and long songs with clean verses and complex structures, ballad and upliftings songs, dramaticly sad songs like blackbird's verse. Shorter, heavier songs very straightforward but always catchy as hell. There is something for everybody in there and fans of the previous records will love this one.
Show Me a Leader is like addicted to pain but more epic. It’s not as heavy sounding but it’s more catchy, the intro and solos are great and the chorus is really great. I love this song
The Writings on the Wall, along with losing patience and crows on a wire and poison in your veins, is a shorter, more straight forward song. They are heavy songs, catchy songs, solos are good and technical (check out myles ‘ solo on Crows on a Wire ) but not as epic as what we could hear on fortress. The chorus, especially on poison in your veins and losing patience, are really catchy and huge sounding. Riffs of those songs are really great too.
The other side is one special song, unlike anythng the band has written so far. It’s heavy AF, vocal of the verse are not catchy but creepy sounding but The chorus are so huge and epic and everything we love. The bridge is like the verse, heavy and creepy sounding but in a goood way. It’s a song you will have to hear many time before you like it.
As far as ballads goes, My champions is an uplifting rock anthem, with a great chorus. It’s cool, nothing more. You will be remembered on the other hand, is emotional and the chorus is so epic. Love this one.
Island of fools is probably the heavier song in there along woth the other side. It’s probably my favourite shorter/simplier song of Alter Bridge. The chorus is the best. It’s giant, It’s epic, it’s dramatic sounding like everything around you is falling apart. The bridge and final chrous with tremonti’s solo are just epic.
Twilight is not a ballad but not heavy, it’s the song i like the least. Not bad but it just don’t suit me well.
This leaves us with Cradle to the grave, This side of fate and the last hero. Long tracks.
Cradle is heavy, the power chord riff is really catchy and the chorus is great but the verses … So sad and beautiful. Just like blackbird. The solo is one of tremonti’s best on the album.
This side of fate is the longest track. The verse are clean and pretty cool but not as epic or dramatic as i’d like to. The chorus is cool. The song really kicks in for the bridge which is epic, heavy melodic with strings and **** Myles solo is his best solo. Highly technical, highly epic, highly everything. The last chorus is not like the other ones in this song, this last chorus is really epic and dramatic and tremonti’s solo is really incredible here. The song is not as epic as i imagined it but it’s definitely one of my favourite of all AB’s song catalog.
The Last Hero is the best song on the album. Maybe my favourite song of the band. It’s huge, dramatic, epic, heavy, melodic, epic solos etc… The verse are myles best vocal ever in my opinion. The bridge and the chorus are truly epic just like both solos.
In the end, this album is their best. You need to listen to it numerous time to appreciate it. It’s different form their other records but it’s still a very AB style album. The main difference with fortress is, in my opinion, that it sound less like „metallica riffs“. The songs are less classic riffs base but more huge sounding. It may sound bad but it’s not. For example, fortress bridge’s riff or addicted to pain’s riff or calm the fire’s riff sound more classic than the ones in the last hero.
Anyway maybe you didn’t understood what i was saying but please understand that this album is a masterpiece, hard to listen to but so f****** good in the end.… Expand