Blackbird - Alter Bridge

Alter Bridge's first album, the phenomenal 'One Day Remains', will go down in history as one of my favourite debut albums. The extremely bold mix of beautiful, heart felt lyrics and fabulous, hard hitting drum beats with screeching guitar riffs really struck a chord with me (ha ha, pun intended!) and it seems that I will never tire of the four pieces fantastic first album as a group. In case you didn't know, Alter Bridge are a concoction of three members from American rock band Creed, including the fantastic guitarist Mark Tremonti, banging bassist Brian Marshall and the hardcore Scott Phillips, a guy who drums a whole new heart beat into each and every song. ...

Florida's Alter Bridge display surprising mastery of the stadium rock style on their second album, which becomes understandable once you notice that the outfit consists of three-quarters of multiplatinum faith rockers Creed, replacing Scott Stapp with a singer who still sounds like a straightforward imitation of Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder. This album seems to have generated a significant buzz on its release in October, even scraping into the UK Top 40 if that means anything to you, and as expected it's a mostly derivative collection of generic, loud modern rock that at least manages to be some place above the competition. The production shows every sign of a ...