To add to your excellent explanation, Buffon, I think that a great AB epic has to really have that genuine emotional resonance and catharsis to really make it. I have to feel something and be taken somewhere. As fantastic as Fortress and Dying Light are (and I really do love listening to them) they...

Double-post: just read my last one back and realized I'm still referring to Calm the Fire as a "recent" song when it'll be 10 next year. Time flies, huh

My ranking from best to worst, with spaces to indicate the "tiers" for lack of a better word: - Blackbird - Fortress - Cry of Achilles - Words Darker than Their Wings - Fable of the Silent Son - The Last Hero - Dying Light - This Side of Fate Criteria: Most important: the song should hold ...

I do like A7X in bits and pieces, mind you - they're a fun band, and they also have a couple of very talented musicians and writers- probably unfair of me to bucket them with FFDP! But like I said, I have higher expectations from Alter Bridge than all these mainstream American bands they always get ...

This is War, [...]what I'd call outright bad - these are songs I expect A7X, Nickelback and Theory of a Deadman (respectively :lol ) to be putting out. That's interesting. For me TIW is signature AB and I cant see for the life of it how that could be a nickelback song :headscratch But again - there...

I like it. Not as strong back-to-front as Blackbird and Fortress, and probably not as many standout songs as ODR and AB III. But there's plenty of good material on here, and the production is miles better than Last Hero and Walk the Sky, probably Fortress too, so looks like they listened to the feed...

I keep forgetting Twilight even exists. Such an ... inoffensively dull song.

Voted for The End Is Here, though All Ends Well has definitely grown on me over the years.

Farther Than The Sun is miles better than Calm the Fire.

Could have gone with any of the first four here, they're all solid songs without being top-tier. You Will Be Remembered deserves to end with zero votes

Indoctrination, by far.

In Loving Memory is a classic, the rest... eh.

I adore Cradle's verses and the intro but the rest just does nothing for me. It's all a bit ovewrought and dense and it loses the true emotion in all three melodrama. Spot on. There's a beautiful song in there, but they ruined it by force-fitting it to the standard Alter Bridge formula. Peace Is Br...

The guitar work in the chorus is what makes it stand out. There's some really cool stuff going on in there, more intricate than most Alter Bridge choruses. The only thing that annoys me about the song is the very last line of the last chorus: three "I'm coming home"s within a ten-second sp...

TenaciousBe wrote:Wow. I can't believe that I'm the 25th vote, and I'm the first one to vote for The Uninvited.

And I'm the second. I honestly expected it to win this, or at least end up second behind Metalingus.

Happy to see some Coming Home love, at least. One of my favorite AB choruses.

Lover would be amazing if there was only one Myles singing.

I could go with any of the first three albums here. Picked All Hope Is Gone because I had a feeling it would be overlooked, and now I see it's level with f***ing My Champion after my vote. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.

I've always thought Metallica's Black Album has some of the best production I've heard in a rock record. It sounds absolutely huge, without feeling like the music is assaulting you.

This one's much simpler.

Come to Life. Should have been the lead single from Blackbird

I always figured AiC use the tablets to control their pedals/effects or something like that.

They only ever play the same couple of dozen songs live every tour. Be disappointing if even that's too many words to remember \m/

Does it bother anyone else that there are people who can't hear the difference between ODR's production and something like TLH? There are plenty of users here who just say they sound the same and it blows my mind. Go put on Broken Wings and listen to how clear everything is. Like how the **** can p...

Cry of Achilles will win comfortably, but the openers from the first four albums are all fantastic.

I will forever hate Show Me A Leader for ruining the streak.

They're not the only songs with the standard pattern, no (far from it), but they are two particular examples where the structure is very, very closely followed. And yes, I do mean the tempos, drum fills, and just the general sense that you can layer one song on top of the other like Muffin says; I'd...

Isolation is a much better song, as I'm pretty sure 90% of people will agree, but that's not the argument here.

Structurally, they're virtually identical. Isolation just does the formula better.