Alter Bridge: 10 Hidden Song Details You Never Noticed
7. ABIII Is A Concept Album
While Alter Bridge certainly have their own signature sound, with Mark Tremonti's impossible guitar work and Myles Kennedy's unparalleled vocals, they have evolved throughout their career. Each album is different to the last, but none so much as the band's third outing, ABIII.
The album is as close to concept album as you will see, almost telling one single narrative from start to finish through 14 incredible songs. It is easily the darkest of AB's six albums, coming from a time in Myles Kennedy's life when he felt incredibly disillusioned and confused.
Kennedy had a difficult childhood to say the least, as his biological father passed away while Myles was just a child, thanks in part to a belief in Christian science and refusing to seek medical help. Kennedy deals with his feelings around this on ABIII, questioning what happened, why it happened, and venting his frustrations.
The third album focuses on losing all belief, and beginning to question if everything you thought was truth is actually real at all. The pain and emotion poured into all of these songs make it some of Alter Bridge's finest work, and though there are one or two exceptions, just about every track follows that same feeling and expression.