The 4th Album - FORTRESS - Discuss The Album Here!

[AB4Lyfe]

Except the anal rape of Americans as far as the eye can see

I didn't even get the common courtesy of lube, did you?

[Therefromthestart04]

Went to the pre-listen event in London last night Mark and Myles still so humble and nice spoken to them several time since 2004 total class. Fortress %&*$£*&% Rocks this gonna big Huge !!!! This will tear the roof off Wembley when performed live !!

[Jack_The_Riffer]

Went to the pre-listen event in London last night Mark and Myles still so humble and nice spoken to them several time since 2004 total class. Fortress %&*$£*&% Rocks this gonna big Huge !!!! This will tear the roof off Wembley when performed live !!

Sweet! Reckon you could give us a track by track review/insight?

[LadyJuliaJoanne]

I have a feeling Fortress will become my absolute favorite album.

[fix]

Hi guys! I was lurking here the whole time, so I figured I could just join the hyping on this board! From what I've heard the new album seems to focus on the things I love AB most for; epic and heavy groove songs. Would love to hear more about the listening party!

[Therefromthestart04]

Hate Hype and lots of talk about how some thing should be KEEP THE FAITH AB followers this album will blow you away best AB album to date the boys have grown in the last 10 years come September/October you will be impressed ,had one listen last night and still buzzing on the stuff i heard .The powerhouse that is Brian and Flip drive this album myles and mark shine. I thought Myles would be tired touring with slash but his vocal on this album is fantastic. Now i have had a listen perhaps the tour support is wrong they should have toured with Sevendust .

[Roneit]

It is hard to believe, but I am still hoping that album doesnt became a ABIII part 2. And have Elvis involved kind make my hopes fade away.

[alterchris]

It is hard to believe, but I am still hoping that album doesnt became a ABIII part 2. And have Elvis involved kind make my hopes fade away.

Wasn't he also involved in the Blackbird album? Blackbird was pure gold in my opinion. AB III didn't come close to topping Blackbird (in my opinion) but still had some great material on it.

[Ubik]

Elvis produced Blackbird as he did ABIII. The Elvis debate essentially stems around his production technique, notably the compression levels of the music and the number of post-production additions that are made (echoes and whatnot). I personally couldn't give a shit, but I appreciate that for many it's a downer. Early impressions this time round though seem to be improved on that front.

[Andy92]

I'll give Elvis the benefit of the doubt since this is the first AB album he's actually mixed. Addicted to Pain sounded really good sonically.

[Daniel]

I know this isn't 'Cry of Achilles' but does anyone know the band? Sounds very Alter Bridge/Creed like!

[youtube]http://youtu.be/k4ikAAEkRTE[/youtube]

[Andy92]

My music app on my phone couldn't pick it up, so it's probably a relatively unknown band trying to get cheap views.

[Roneit]

I know this isn't 'Cry of Achilles' but does anyone know the band? Sounds very Alter Bridge/Creed like!

[youtube]http://youtu.be/k4ikAAEkRTE[/youtube]

They sound like Red Goodbye (an indie rock band from Long Island). But I dont think it's them. You can check about them here:

http://www.redgoodbye.com/music

[Inconquerable]

Pfft, everybody knows COA is 7 minutes, what a loser for not even trying to make it the full length! >_>

Seriously though, that person clearly had no shame. =D

[anguyen92]

I know this isn't 'Cry of Achilles' but does anyone know the band? Sounds very Alter Bridge/Creed like!

[youtube]http://youtu.be/k4ikAAEkRTE[/youtube]

All I got to say about that.

Edit: Ok, after actually listening to this, it is a decent song, but, you know, we all don't like it when someone tries to get additional views by posting a video and title and pass it off as AB's name and a hyped song that people are waiting to hear.

[Jim]

Bless all of the attempts to fool the world with these things.

[Torsten]

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[Decay]

Other possible resolution

Looks great, thanks for sharing.

Who says a damn good resolution can't make you love the artwork? I didn't like it at first.
I love the artwork even more when I zoom it, don't know why...

[InfantChild]

I don´t know if this was been posted before but iTunes published the Track length of Fortress
No Song under 4 minutes, 3 Songs longer than 6 minutes

Cry of Achilles - 6:30
Addicted to Pain - 4:15
Bleed It Dry - 4:44
Lover - 5:17
The Uninvited - 4:47
Peace Is Broken - 4:40
Calm The Fire - 6:04
Waters Rising - 5:39
Farther Than The Sun - 4:07
Cry a River - 4:00
All Ends Well - 5:12
Fortress 7:36

[Timotheus]

Hm, so Achilles isn't over 7 minutes? Still cool. Three songs are longer than the longest song on AB III..