Alter Bridge Biography

The American rock band Alter Bridge was established in Orlando, Florida in 2004 by former Creed members Mark Tremonti, Brian Marshall, and Scott Phillips. The trio teamed up with Myles Kennedy of the Mayfield Four to round out Alter Bridge’s initial lineup. The band’s debut album, One Day Remains, achieved only moderate success, as did Alter Bridge’s first three singles, “Broken Wings,” “Find the Real,” and “Open Your Wings.”

The albums Blackbird (2007) and AB III (2010) followed, with the singles: “Rise Today,” “Watch Over You,” “Before Tomorrow Comes,” “Isolation,” “Ghosts of Days Gone By,” and “Addicted to Pain.” In recent years Alter Bridge has toured extensively, launching the Carnival of Madness Tour as a co-headliner, alongside Theory of a Deadman. Immediately after, the band played at the Soundwave Festival in Australia, and released the concert DVD Live at Wembley.

In 2012, the Alter Bridge band members shifted focus to other projects, including a brief Creed reunion and solo albums. Tremonti’s solo album, All I Was, arrived in 2012, the same year that Myles Kennedy released Apocalyptic Love with fellow musician Slash. Phillips established the band Projected, with some of the members from Sevendust, before Alter Bridge regrouped to prepare for another studio album. Fortress then arrived in 2013, with the first lead single, “Addicted to Pain,” released in the summer of that year. Alter Bridge embarked on an extensive supporting tour taking them throughout Europe and then back to the United States before returning to the Soundwave Festival in Australia.

Today, Alter Bridge continues to perform and record with the group’s original lineup. The band recently released the studio album The Last Hero (2016) and the live album Live at the O2 Arena + Rarities (2017.) Notable recent singles include “Show Me a Leader,” “My Champion,” and “ Poison in Your Vein.”