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Fans and critics have highlighted Mark Tremonti’s guitar solo as particularly beautiful and atypical for his usual style.
It features a haunting, atmospheric vocal intro by Kennedy that transitions into intense, chugging riffs. Alter Bridge - This Is War (Official Video)
Kennedy noted that the song "came from a dream," describing it as if the universe dropped the idea on him. Fans and critics have highlighted Mark Tremonti’s guitar
Check out the official lyric video for "This Is War" to see the intense visuals that accompany this track: Alter Bridge - This Is War (Official Video) Alter Bridge YouTube• Oct 4, 2022 Alter Bridge – This Is War Lyrics - Genius Check out the official lyric video for "This
"This Is War" serves as the aggressive, high-energy opening track for Alter Bridge's seventh studio album, Pawns & Kings . Released in October 2022, the song and its accompanying official lyric video set a bombastic tone for what the band described as their "most aggressive collection of songs to date".
The video uses striking, dark imagery to complement the aggressive nature of the music, emphasizing the "army of shadows" and "demons of the mind" mentioned in the lyrics.
This Is War Lyrics. ... Fight for your life, can't you see what's coming? ... Fight for your life, can't you see what's coming? ..
“this is alas just another film that panders to the image Thompson himself tried to shirk – the reckless buffoon that is more at home on fraternity posters than library shelves. It is a missed opportunity to take the man seriously.”
This is an excellent summary on the attitude of the seeming majority of HST ‘admirers’.
It just makes me think that they read Fear and Loathing, looked up similar stories of HST’s unhinged behaviour and didn’t bother with the rest of his work.
There is such a raw, human element of Thompsons work, showing an amazing mind, sense of humour, critical thinking and an uncanny ability to have his finger on the pulse of many issues of his time.
Booze feature prominently in most of his writing and he is always flirting with ‘the edge’, but this obsession with remembering him more as Raoul Duke and less as Hunter Thompson, is a sad reflection of most ‘fans’; even if it was a self inflicted wound by Thompson himself.