Apple killed the concept of an "album" with iTunes. I'm surprised people even care. I listen start to finish on very first listen of AB records, but never again after that. I just pick whatever I feel like hearing. Come to Life flows into Brand New Start, but other than that, whats the po...

ODR 1. Cruel Sun (or whatever the title is with the word sun in it) 2. Solace 3. Breathe 4. Save Me BB 1. We Don't Care at all 2. Damage Done 3. New Way to live AB3 1. Home 2. Zero 3. Never Born To Follow Fortress 1. Never Say Die Last Hero 1. Last of our kind meh, I only don't have two of these. W...

I think it just depends on who you're more a fan of. Some people are more Myles fans, some Tremonster's. Either way you can't go wrong. But I will say this, Myles turns as being the only soloist in a song, i.e. Writing and Crows, are, while awesome, by comparison to Mark are, shall we say, less ins...

Island of Fools - Best all-out heavy song they've ever done, amazing for every second The Last Hero - Cry of Achilles's twin, so many good things about this song from the intermittent verse riff to Myles' tragic voice in the breakdown. This Side of Fate - Lover meets Words Darker meets Calm the Fir...

And to follow on from my comment about preferring Myles as a guitarist/songwriter (though honestly, both he and Mark are in the top 10 for either of those categories for me), I think I want to tie that into an earlier comment I read on this thread. Someone mentioned that Myles seems to do better wit...

I think Myles is the stronger lyricist (and guitarist/songwriter for that matter) than Mark, and I definitely think he executes moody/personal lyrics to a level far beyond Mark. That being said, I will agree that Myles' lyrics aren't what they were during the MF4 days (or even ABIII, which is his st...

A bit late, but here's my review of the album: I have extremely mixed feelings about TLH. On one side it's horribly produced (and needs a remaster), the side project influences aren't integrated well, too many lyrical tropes (hello "deny") and at times it feels like they're just rehashing...

1. Fortress - This is peak Alter Bridge. Every band member stepped it up big time on this record and they really made strides with their arrangements and being more progressive and unpredictable. Cry of Achilles and Fortress are both top 5 (possible even top 3) AB tracks, and are true progressive ep...

I'm an epic purist. Only Blackbird, Cry of Achilles, Fortress, This Side of Fate and The Last Hero count for me. I'm extremely late to this topic but haven't been on TABN for a while now. I feel like I am of a similar frame of mind. When I think of "an epic" I think of a song that is a co...

It kind of sucks because Show Me A Sign is easily for me the best song on the album. But it goes up against a top 5 song song of theirs for me. Farther Than The Sun has it all. A killer riff, surprisingly snappy chorus and a pair of bitchin' solos. It might be the only instance in which I think Myl...

1. Fortress 2. ABIII 3. The Last Hero 4. Blackbird 5. One Day Remains They are all honestly so close though, I believe the weakest Alter Bridge album is still a very, very good album. I believe Fortress is their strongest though. It's got a consistently high energy through most of the album and it w...

I think Myles' solo on Crows is fine. It's certainly not one of his best, but it is by no means below average. Just a cool, quick, heavy metal solo. I actually kind of think of it as a bit of a combination of his solos from Isolation and Farther Than The Sun, as he seems to use similar runs in certa...

Based on their interview speaking about dual solos on TLH with Myles taking the first and Mark taking the second, and Myles taking the corresponding outtro. That last outtro is definitely Myles unless Mark's guitar is just layered on top of each other, which they don't usually (or ever really) do. ...