AB. Yeah that's the one ...

Well, AB stands for Alter Bridge, my new favourite band who have made sure I spend a minimum of an hour on my iPod listening to them.

From right to left: Tremonti, Scott, Marshall and Myles.

    Plunging into some history of Alter Bridge, the band is American and was formed by 3 members, Tremonti, Scott and Marshall, who all left Creed because of conflicts with the lead vocalist of Creed. The vocalist for AB, Myles Kennedy joined in later and completed the band. They released One Day Remains (which almost became the name of the band) in 2004 (Aug 10th:a day before my birthday) and that happens to be my favourite album. Later they released BlackBird in 2007 October which also had a few hits. By the way, they play Alternative Metal, Alternative Rock, Hard Rock etc.
     Well my favourite persons in the band are Mark Tremonti and Myles Kennedy. Mark is the lead guitarist and his style of play is similar to the metal bands style. He is one the main founders of the band and according to me, the most talented. He writes and composes most of the songs and also gives back-up vocals to AB. Infact, Alter Bridge is named after a bridge near Mark's home in Detroit.
  Myles, the lead vocalist is one who has blown me away. He can sing in 4 octaves and he can cover right from bassy vocals in slow parts to the extremely high-pitched vocals in the fast parts. This also means he should be able to sing the same tune in 4 pitches each one varying only on the octaves but not on the general tune.
    The best part of this band is that they have good rhythm guitar merged with an equally hair-raising lead guitar well combined with drums and bass. The vocals and lead stand right up there. Overall, I like this band because it has a combination of Metallica type of leads and good Hard Rock rhythms. It's a type of genre of that I have to settle with because of my interest in Metal and Rock at the same time.