One would think Mark Tremonti would exhaust his creative diversions with Alter Bridge. Some left over for Creed. Not really. He has found his own way in not only becoming a shredding lord-voted in “Rolling Stones’ Top 20 guitarists of the last decade”-he’e a singer-songwriter better than ever. Practising in expanding his range of pipes to something colossal, it all seems to have boiled down to something colossal. This one is called The End Will Show Us How.
Tremonti drops a leaden bomb
Prepare yourself for some of the meanest riffs you’ll hear in 2025. Tall claim, I know, but it’s Tremonti. He’s learned how to pair those amazing axe sleds with impressive vocals-and more focus on the lyrics. Sure, we’re still in doom territory, but he crafts the lyrics cage extremely well. He’s making grooves here that are prolific-have the same flavour as Alter Bridge but a different delivery. In this way, he makes a deposit of riffs and rhymes that have his whole signature effect on them. From The Mother, The Earth and I, you can hear the waves build. It is an explosion of what has been displaced for so long. He’s tonally perfected the kick and splash he wants to create with his tidal riffage. There is no dearth of depth, we’re looking at a master performer and virtuoso of the instrument here.
The deeper dash that One More Time makes is the tempo you have been seeking. With his alternative tunings and efficient writing style, Tremonti soars higher than he ever has. In the 2 years from Marching in Time, he has worked on an album that cauterizes his different images. He becomes his original avatar, armed with his signature PRS and his metaphorical, grunge stained songwriting. Just Too Much brings that same heaviness with deeper chops, while Tremonti forms a bond with the band that is deeper than blood. It comes at the right time, for Nails has easily the best riff he might have written. Pinch harmonics are sprinkled across a meaty chop-something he does as muscle memory now. He is able to bring the elements together in frisson, making for a song that will stand the rock test of time.
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Burning a new fuel
As metal fans search for a different sound, it is important to pay homage to the musicians that made them all. Alter Bridge’s first album is seen here in how he used to deliver the riffs. Softer tones reverberate with It’s Not Over-his fingerpicking takes the spotlight. Mark has made a carving in the forest with expressive and emotive melody writing. His understanding of theory and finding the balance-rather than letting his playing overshadow it all is what takes the cake.
Songs like the title track show a proper edge of Alter Bridge recreated. It makes sense, knowing a duo with one of the best singers in rock, bleeds over. Tremonti uses techniques that have the Myles effect, and his range has gotten wider and deeper. It is an embrace that has rounded him as a musician, and allowed him to chart further parts of the world.
Tomorrow We Will Fail have the contrast between inspiring and rebellious. He does not fear a scream, and does not hesitate in writing what the song needs into it. From when he planned this in 2012 with All I Was, Tremonti was always supposed to consider this more than a side project. It was a motif, it was his name that he carried and the challenge he wanted to embrace. In this album, he does both-a sound we all recognise from the moment he hits those strings.
Tuning into chaos
The solos, they sing. Tremonti always wanted his work to show parts of his solo writing that wouldn’t compete with Kennedy’s range. In Creed, he was in much more emo waters. Here, he goes metal and thrashy, yet has the lightness to tread with compassion in some songs. The way he has been able to balance Alter Bridge with his solo work is incredible. This man only makes music, and to keep flipping between jobs is something else. Wonder if his family sees him wearing a trench overcoat over the guitar on holidays.
In the past 5 years, it has been back to back with both his bands. In this one, he takes a detour from AB in a way that cements his legacy as a legend. Tremonti is a name guitarists, musicians and anyone metal enough knows. What he has made is for progeny, for progress and to see how many more riffs can get you the stank face. Here, you get to listen to another completed work that is all things awesome:
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