{"id":122547,"date":"2025-09-06T06:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/122547\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T06:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:30:09","slug":"alter-bridge-achieve-hard-rock-glory-on-silent-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/122547\/","title":{"rendered":"Alter Bridge Achieve Hard Rock Glory on “Silent Divide”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heavy Song of the Week<\/a> is a feature on Heavy Consequence breaking down the top metal, punk, and hard rock tracks you need to hear every Friday. This week, No. 1 goes to Alter Bridge\u2019s \u201cSilent Divide.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alter Bridge<\/a> announced a US tour<\/a> this week and marked the occasion with a new song, \u201cSilent Divide,\u201d their first studio material since 2022. The track is the lead single from their upcoming self-titled eighth studio album<\/a>, set to arrive January 9th.<\/p>\n

The five-minute cut sees the band at its heaviest. Mark Tremonti\u2019s riffs come in a steady flow as the rhythm section of Brian Marshall and Scott Phillips pounds away. One gets the sense that the trio \u2014 also the instrumentalists in Creed \u2014 get to open up a bit when it\u2019s time to perform under the Alter Bridge banner, tapping into a thicker and untempered style of grungy hard rock. Factor in the remarkable pipes of frontman Myles Kennedy, not to mention Tremonti\u2019s own pristine backing vocals, and the track takes full flight.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Honorable Mentions:<\/p>\n

Between the Buried and Me \u2013\u00a0\u201cThe Blue Nowhere\u201d<\/p>\n

BTBAM<\/a> offered up the third and final single from their new album in the form of its title track, \u201cThe Blue Nowhere.\u201d This one\u2019s for the prog heads who might typically be turned away by the band\u2019s more metal aesthetics, particularly the sporadic use of gutturals. There\u2019s none of that here (clean-singing fans rejoice). In fact, this is a rather lush six-minute composition with peaks of grandeur \u2014 definitely the most overtly prog of the three album singles. No metal to be found, really.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Cold Steel \u2013 \u201cNo Escape\u201d<\/p>\n

Tampa\u2019s Cold Steel<\/a> dish out a modernized take on crossover thrash, as heard on \u201cNo Escape,\u201d melding old-school thrash riffs with the bounce and breakdown-heavy style of contemporary hardcore and metalcore. They could just as well open for a Knocked Loose or a Testament, and both crowds would probably dig it. This type of punkish thrash always benefits from a vocalist that sounds totally unhinged, and Jose Menendez definitely fits that bill, delivering a delightfully devilish performance. Trivium is a solid point of reference for where Cold Steel fall on the genre spectrum, so it\u2019s no surprise that Matt Heafy contributed to pre-production and arrangements and helped advise the band during the making of its forthcoming debut album, Discipline & Punish.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Sun Dont Shine \u2013\u00a0\u201cWhat You Are\u201d<\/p>\n

After they claimed our HSOTW honor<\/a> in June, we\u2019re back with another single from Sun Dont Shine<\/a>, the new supergroup featuring Crowbar\u2019s Kirk Windstein and members of Type O Negative. Here they hit an almost trad-doom sound, riding head-nodding riffs that are rendered through a murky and sludgy tone, of which Windstein is a seasoned purveyor.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heavy Song of the Week is a feature on Heavy Consequence breaking down the top metal, punk, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-122547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}