Dark_Knight
08-25-2010, 03:31 PM
One lucky fan (Donny) got to hear some of AB III last night. Here is his quick review...
"So to some up what I heard, in one word...
Holy fucking shit it was awesome!! Sorry, one word just couldn't do it.
Now unfortunately I heard the album with a room full of people, including mark. So there was talking, plus me being in awe that I'm sitting next to Mark Tremonti talking to him! But anyway..
Isolation - First song I heard, and BAM! it kicks u in the face! It's heavy as hell, if I had to describe it, I would say it sounds like Come To Life on steroids. Heavier, faster, more solos/licks, double time drums. I felt like I was listening to sevendust or slipknot. It was THAT HEAVY. I knew this album was heavier, but I had no idea it would be that heavy. And of course, Myles sounds great, but I feel like he's taken it to another level.
The next song I heard was slip into the void, which mark said is going to be the first song on the album... This is definitely a big spoiler coming up, so I'm warning you, turn away now if you don't want to know.
Still here? Ok, So Slip into the void starts off with this very cool, trippy KEYBOARD line, for a good part of the song. Mark said it's the first and only time they used keys in AB and it sounds sick!!! If I had to describe it, I would say it's almost got that eerie pink floyd vibe that you get from Dark side of the moon, but then BAM! you get hit with some of Mark's signature heavy blackbird-esk riffs when you don't expect it. Best part about this album, and especially in this song and Isolation, are the leads. From what I heard, there's a lot more Find the Real time smaller leads in between parts, like Find the Real, except heavier and more awesomer (yes I just said awesomer). Also, In slip into the void the FIRST solo, I asked Mark, so this is you right? and His answer, "No, that's Myles." On blackbird, you can tell when it's Myles or Mark, but this time Myles is SHREDDING to the point that if Mark didn't tell me himself, I wouldn't of believed that it wasn't Mark playing that lead.
Overall, it's heavy, really, amazingly, a lot more than blackbird, but yet still melodically heavy. I felt like this was the album they've always wanted to make. There is 0% similarities between this album and full circle, or creed. It's shocking that it's still the same band, but if I didn't know any better, I wouldn't believe those were the same guys. And Myles really seems like he's taken the singing style back to his roots. It's got that raw, edgy vibe like from the MF4 days, especially like sick and wrong. I've been feeling that a lot on this album. Ok, sorry guys but I have to go now, but I'll leave you with this one last piece. This album flows. It's truely and album in every sense of the word. The songs fit into each other so well and they feel placed together to the point that it would be wrong to not listen to the album all the way through."
You can read his whole story over on ABB.net... he actually met Mark at his workplace & he gave him backstage passes and the whole nine yards. Very cool.
http://alterbridgeband.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=25909
http://alterbridgeband.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=25813&start=160
"So to some up what I heard, in one word...
Holy fucking shit it was awesome!! Sorry, one word just couldn't do it.
Now unfortunately I heard the album with a room full of people, including mark. So there was talking, plus me being in awe that I'm sitting next to Mark Tremonti talking to him! But anyway..
Isolation - First song I heard, and BAM! it kicks u in the face! It's heavy as hell, if I had to describe it, I would say it sounds like Come To Life on steroids. Heavier, faster, more solos/licks, double time drums. I felt like I was listening to sevendust or slipknot. It was THAT HEAVY. I knew this album was heavier, but I had no idea it would be that heavy. And of course, Myles sounds great, but I feel like he's taken it to another level.
The next song I heard was slip into the void, which mark said is going to be the first song on the album... This is definitely a big spoiler coming up, so I'm warning you, turn away now if you don't want to know.
Still here? Ok, So Slip into the void starts off with this very cool, trippy KEYBOARD line, for a good part of the song. Mark said it's the first and only time they used keys in AB and it sounds sick!!! If I had to describe it, I would say it's almost got that eerie pink floyd vibe that you get from Dark side of the moon, but then BAM! you get hit with some of Mark's signature heavy blackbird-esk riffs when you don't expect it. Best part about this album, and especially in this song and Isolation, are the leads. From what I heard, there's a lot more Find the Real time smaller leads in between parts, like Find the Real, except heavier and more awesomer (yes I just said awesomer). Also, In slip into the void the FIRST solo, I asked Mark, so this is you right? and His answer, "No, that's Myles." On blackbird, you can tell when it's Myles or Mark, but this time Myles is SHREDDING to the point that if Mark didn't tell me himself, I wouldn't of believed that it wasn't Mark playing that lead.
Overall, it's heavy, really, amazingly, a lot more than blackbird, but yet still melodically heavy. I felt like this was the album they've always wanted to make. There is 0% similarities between this album and full circle, or creed. It's shocking that it's still the same band, but if I didn't know any better, I wouldn't believe those were the same guys. And Myles really seems like he's taken the singing style back to his roots. It's got that raw, edgy vibe like from the MF4 days, especially like sick and wrong. I've been feeling that a lot on this album. Ok, sorry guys but I have to go now, but I'll leave you with this one last piece. This album flows. It's truely and album in every sense of the word. The songs fit into each other so well and they feel placed together to the point that it would be wrong to not listen to the album all the way through."
You can read his whole story over on ABB.net... he actually met Mark at his workplace & he gave him backstage passes and the whole nine yards. Very cool.
http://alterbridgeband.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=25909
http://alterbridgeband.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=25813&start=160