Released as a companion piece to last year’s masterful Walk The Sky, and available to buy with or without its parent album, this seven-tracker combines live tracks with one tantalisingly dark new song. It feels apt as well: no strangers to the melancholy side of metal, over the course of six albums Alter Bridge have been warning us that seriously troubled times lie ahead. Now that the promised darkness has well and truly arrived, it’s no surprise that they document it as they do here. New track Last Rites was recorded during quarantine and is simply one of the best things they’ve ever done. Heavy as a 10-ton hammer, Mark Tremonti’s riffs rumble through your speakers before frontman Myles Kennedy hits us with such lines as ‘Goodbye to the only way of life you’ve ever known.’ As a big h...
