Pawns & Kings is the seventh studio album from American hard rock band Alter Bridge. Released on October 14 via Napalm Records, Pawns & Kings is being heralded by the label as the group’s “most aggressive collection of songs to date.” Speaking exclusively to BraveWords, Alter Bridge lead guitarist Mark Tremonti reveals what spawned that aggression. “I think it might have been, knowing that we have to play these songs night after night, it’s always in the back of our minds that we want to create songs that are going to be enjoyable night after night. I guess the more fun songs are the heavier, more aggressive songs. Maybe that’s it. But other than that, we didn’t have any plan on making an aggressive record, it just kind of turned out that way.”
Napalm is also touting Pawns & Kings as “career defining.” “I think we’ve probably, at this point, defined what Alter Bridge – the core of what our sound is, years ago. But we’re still trying to redefine ourselves as we go,” explains Tremonti, who along with vocalist / rhythm guitarist Myles Kennedy, bassist Brian Marshall, and drummer Scott Phillips completed the recording of Pawns & Kings in just six weeks. That’s a relatively short time span compared to previous Alter Bridge album sessions. “It’s easier to do that when you’ve got stuff really planned out in advance. We had extensive demoing done before we went in there, so when we got into pre-production, it was all business. We knew what we needed to do, and got it done. We also had to get the recording process finished at a certain point to be able to meet deadlines for all the business things like getting the records pressed, and all the supply chain issues. It needed to be done by a certain date.”
Comprised of ten songs, Pawns & Kings has the fewest tracks of any Alter Bridge album, making it stand apart from the 14 and 13 song epics that Walk The Sky and The Last Hero are. “We knew that this record was going to have a lot of longer tunes,” admits Tremonti. “When I sent this record over to my brother, and I told him there were ten tracks, he was like, ‘No way. You’ve got to have more. Alter Bridge fans get a record every three years, they’re going to want more tracks.’ But then when he heard the record – ‘Ten is fine. There’s so much information on this record to take in, it seems like it’s a much longer record than when you see the ten tracks.’ I think some of these songs are almost two songs in one. Three or four of the songs are over the six-minute range, so it’s still a lengthy record
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