14 songs recorded for Fortress!?

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TheAdynator
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14 songs recorded for Fortress!?

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Hi all, made an acc just to spread this to here.

Was watching Fortress: Sound/Story documentary from Fret12 and noticed that the working chart with all of the song titles on it had 14 songs; the album itself had 12 songs and 1 official b-side, so there's a missing song here. Some of these had the final album names written, some were stupid working names.

I posted this in a reddit thread on r/AlterBridge a while ago and we had a shot at deciphering which songs were associated with which working titles in order to determine which title belonged to the mystery song, and I was curious as to what you guys think. Is there something we're missing here?

Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/alterbridge/co ... chart_for/
Screenshots of the working chart seen in F-TSATS doco: http://imgur.com/a/Pk0Fy

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*Cracks knuckles* So I am kind of obsessed with the board. Massive downer in TLH sessions that we never got to really see it.

I note in the reddit that they've settled on Molly Hatchet as Fortress, but I'm pretty sure it's not. Disclaimer - I've not seen the docu so if Myles outright says "Molly Hatchet became Fortress and fuck anyone that says otherwise" then I am wrong, but if not then I'm certain Ritual is Fortress - it has the two time signatures on it, it has the two guitar solos on it (Molly Hatchet has the "NS" - no solos marker on it), and I'm pretty sure it was described as an "epic" at some point in pre-pro. Molly Hatchet I think is All Ends Well.

The 14th song is Mastaphony, that was one they did pre-pro on and I think maybe recorded drums for, but other than that it was unrecorded.

Idilie I think is Farther than the Sun - it's 4/4 and it's marked as having Mark and Myles solos.

Megladong I think is Bleed it Dry - 6/8 and with solos on it.

Maniacal I think is Calm the Fire - 4/4, no solos.

And you're right that Tooly Jam is The Uninvited!
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Oh didn't know that there had already been talk about this aside from my initial reddit post. Good to hear it's been settled, but pretty disappointing that there's no hidden complete song.

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Ubik printed out the picture of that whiteboard to use as a placemat on his kitchen table back when the album was being recorded.
anguyen92 wrote:Oh well. Deal with it.

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As did I. For some strange reason, I was thinking Mastaphony became symphony of agony on the last hero. But I'm probably making that up just so I can say I've heard it, lol.
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Andy92 wrote:Ubik printed out the picture of that whiteboard to use as a placemat on his kitchen table back when the album was being recorded.
Pfft. There are four pictures. All my guests tell me they make a good table set.
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In retrospect, I feel I could've been more welcoming to the newbie here :lol This is why we should always have Shea front of house.
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Ubik wrote:In retrospect, I feel I could've been more welcoming to the newbie here :lol This is why we should always have Shea front of house.
I don't think I could make the situation any better :lol

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Did prod me into finally watching the making of Fortress doc. People need to find someone that looks at them like Mark looks at Myles whilst riffing on Lover.
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