Alterbridge - ABIII

Alter Bridge have crafted one of the best rock records of 2010. AB 3 is the bands first ever concept album. As far as I'm aware, it is a concept based around the Bands' struggle in terms of faith and religion. The concept is about a man who loses hope and his faith in God, the song "Wonderful Life" is a beutiful yet sad song about the character's wife dying of disease. I'm the kind of musician that likes to portray and emotion or theme through my guitar playing or songwriting or any other instrument etc. So this album really does it for me in that in that respect. Overall, the tone and vibe of the album is a lot more dark and aggressive and sounds like a progression from their previous album 'Blackbird'. So basically if you were a big lover of AB's heavy and aggressive riff's much like the songs "Come To Life" or "One By One" you're gonna love this album. What took me by surprise in 'Blackbird' was the fact that frontman Myles Kennedy decided to pick up his guitars a lot more which really changed the way songs were written as oppose to the 'One Day Remains' album where the majority of guitar parts were written by guitar extroardinaire, Mark Tremonti. In AB 3 Myles has decided to join Mark Tremonti as guitar extroardinaire. There is definitely a balance between who plays a guitar a solo in this album, but it has been really been an opportune moment for Myles to shine by tearing his guitar to pieces! A lot of people haven't heard him play like this since back in the days of The Mayfield four! The guitar playing is definitely a lot more intricate in this album especially for Myles. A brilliant record and most probably going to be the best rock record to be released this year with no obvious contenders in the near future or past.

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