Overall I enjoy the song. It's easy to list the positives, so I'll try my best to come up with some negatives (some more unfair than others): - As many have said: too "loud" in too many places. Basically, not very much dynamic range in the mix nor the arrangement that really separates cert...

He gets a little bit of that sound that he would get in concert, and some of his vowels play off like him singing with Slash.

Otherwise, I love where it sounds like the chorus is leading to.

In a lot of the music I like, singers self-harmonize (mostly due to not having competent back vocals, but still :P ) and I have no problem with that. In fact, I kinda like it. If it's really prominent they can always use a backing track or something (like some of these bands do). Another problem wi...

Crumbso wrote:It was a tongue in cheek comment really.

I don't doubt that. Just felt the need to justify my actions is all.

Dude you should call yourself TL;DR. Some valid points but it took me a long time to get through them. Of all the places you suggest that, you do it here? While we're at it, why don't we just listen to the radio edits of Cry of Achilles and Show Me a Leader. We all saw how that turned out. I don't ...

Just really quickly... going back to the talk about the mixing of tracks, I have heard in my head what songs like Open Your Eyes, Before Tomorrow Comes, Blackbird, Broken Wings, Metalingus, In Loving Memory, Brand New Start, etc. would sound like if they are harmonized the entire way through, and ho...

I think I could consider those two epics as well. I might have been short-sighting the last two albums in that case. However, I never said that OYE is one of my favorite songs (though it is), I was just stating how it became such a crowd-pleaser and popular song. I think that if Cry of Achilles was...

I think my biggest issue in the case of "Show Me a Leader" is his loose pronunciation of things. (i.e. I keep hearing "who's intentions go unpersuaded" in the second verse, and I never am quite sure what to make of the last phrase of the bridge leading into the solo. "all a...

Open Your Eyes is a great live song, especially because of the sing-along part (I'll always remember my first AB concert back in 2010, we had a great crowd that sang that part before the concert had even begun). In general though, there are AT LEAST 20 Alter Bridge songs immediately coming to my mi...

Does anyone else find Myles' first verse in SMAL more slash-y than the rest of the song? The way he says "selling" at the beginning has been particularly bugging me. It's a shame, because I really like everything leading up to that point and the majority of the song afterwards. It definit...

I was blasting this song on my new speaker today and my friend walked in and said "Hey, is that the guy who sings with Slash?" He was really digging this song and I thought it was a cool example of Myles getting more recognition from his other band! Maybe he thought it was Axl Rose. :shifty

ABIII is a great album. There, I said it. I'm curious what people at the LP can say about the "sound" of the rest of the album when we first likened to this one to a Slash song. I understand that it doesn't really seem like one anymore now that we have the intro tied to it so maybe you nev...

I wish there weren't "no's" in the break between the first chorus and the second verse. I'm wondering if I can edit in the riff without them and make it sound seamless... unfortunately, when Myles sings: "We need a hero this time," the word 'time' gets overdubbed by the start of...

I wish there weren't "no's" in the break between the first chorus and the second verse. I'm wondering if I can edit in the riff without them and make it sound seamless... unfortunately, when Myles sings: "We need a hero this time," the word 'time' gets overdubbed by the start of ...

Yeah, full version is a lot better. It's like watching the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice theatrical version versus the ultimate edition haha.

Even still, not my favorite AB songs by any means. I liked Addicted to Pain a lot, actually. Not big on Isolation or Rise Today, by to each his/her own.

Sounds more like what Myles has been doing with Slash. I'm not going to say "It's awesome" just yet. I'll have to listen to the 5:05 version and get some lyrics with it, because so far the only words that I know for sure are "Show me a leader" lol. Until then, I like the Slash st...

First post on the forums, though I've perused before and have recently the past couple of weeks given the new information. Been an AB fan since ODR.

Very excited about the new single coming out tomorrow! I'm in California myself, so I assume it's a 7:00 AM time for me!