Love it. My favorite since Load. If they could have done something like this during the St Anger days, there might be fewer haters. Proud to be a 'Tallica fan right now. I agree. This album feels like what they could have released after the Loads in the late 90s early 2000s if they could have kept ...

I can't get over how awesome This Side of Fate sounds from 2:37 to 5:00 in the song. I know it's a big chunk of the song, but it's definitely in my Top 10 AB moments. Just something about the atmosphere of that whole section gives me goosebumps. I only wish that at 3:59 they kept the energy going a...

BB.

If not for BB it would have easily been TSoF.

Based on the options provided: BB, CoA, and TLH

Interesting topic though, the definition of "epic" certainly seems to be a moving one.

Hmm, I love Big Wreck, but neither of those songs did much for me. Hopefully the album will hold up against their previous work which is super solid.

Still absorbing a lot of the music, but my early impression after a couple listens through everything is that this is easily their best album since ReLoad. Might be their best since TBA.

Calm the Fire

Cradle to the Grave, just slightly ahead of Broken Wings.

Felypesh wrote:

This sounds really good

Fantastic!

Mark has several rigs. I think they went for the grab and go rig for the Summer Tour in the US and Mark liked it so much he wanted to have it in Europe too. I kinda like it. A wall of speaker cabs (these are actually working, no dummies) and a simple amplifier combination (which he uses in Tremonti...

Metalingus

My guess it that he prefers to have more dirty tones available, and since there is a limit on the amount of gear he can bring over to Europe (shipping prices etc.) he chooses more distorted stuff. Clean tone hasn't been an important part of his sound since Fortress anyway. But here's the thing. The...

It's clear to me. Not because of these silly little Battle Of The Track Numbers threads. lol That's cool man, just a weird way to state that it's your least favorite. For instance, ABIII is my least favorite AB album, but I don't think I'd say "it's clearly their worst" because what might...

Is there a reason that Mark didn't bring his Fender Twin Reverbs with him? I miss the clean tone in some of these live songs... especially in Blackbird. He doesn't have them as part of his live touring rig at this point. Which stinks but what stinks worse is the fact that he's not even using the cl...

Yeah, I don't see anything "clear" that makes The Last Hero their worst album. It's especially impossible to determine that from these battle of the track numbers polls when you're going to have amazing songs like "This Side of Fate" (personally among my 5 favorite AB songs) whi...

The sound mix for the instruments sounded like the studio version where it's just a wall of sound. Huh, okay. Not to my ears. It sounded pretty much like how AB always sounds through a phone recording in a crowd. I wouldn't put too much stock into a dude in the crowd capturing the gig on his iPhone...

Will wrote:nothing can be over Burn it Down but Buried Alive comes close.

It's clear that The Last Hero is their worst album. Clear as a bell.

Nah, ABIII still holds that title for me. Opinions vary.

Videos sound great so far!

SHEAKENBAKEN wrote: But yeah that was very good, only thing was all the music was still crunched together like in the studio version.

Huh?

The live rendition was pretty good. The studio version is a decent song it's growing on me slowly. Initially, I had it as one of the bottom three tracks on the record, it may have climbed higher than that at this point.

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