ONE DAY REMAINS, THE GOLD-CERTIFIED DEBUT FROM BEST-SELLING HARD ROCKERS ALTER BRIDGE, RETURNS FOR AN EXPANDED 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

25th November 2024 0 By Jon Deaux

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Alter Bridge’s best-selling debut, One Day Remains, an expanded reissue of the Gold-certified album is available to pre-order or pre-save now. The Deluxe Digital or 2-LP set, released via Craft Recordings, includes fan favorites like “Metalingus,” “Open Your Eyes,” “Broken Wings” and “In Loving Memory,” along with six bonus tracks, including the rare B-side “Save Me” and a live 2005 performance from Toronto’s Phase One Studios, featuring four previously unreleased tracks.

For fans eager to get their hands on a copy early, limited quantities of exclusive color variants will be available starting November 29, 2024, exclusively at the official Alter Bridge store. Each limited to 300 copies, these special editions include Red Smoke, Yellow Smoke, Green Smoke and Sea Blue Smoke pressings.

The wide 2-LP release will follow on March 7, 2025, and features a classic black vinyl edition, along with limited runs in Orange Smoke (exclusive to the band’s Spotify listeners), Limeade (via Revolver), Blue Smoke (Best Buy), and Electric Smoke (Vinyl Voice, exclusively available via Independent Record Stores).

Meanwhile, the Deluxe Digital album will drop December 6^th, 2024, with the advance single “Metalingus (Live)” available to stream/download starting today.

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Florida four-piece Alter Bridge was formed in 2004 by members Mark Tremonti (guitar), Scott Phillips (drums) and Brian Marshall (bass) just as their GRAMMY®-winning group Creed (known for such enduring hits as “Higher” and the multi-platinum “With Arms Wide Open”) was embarking on an extended hiatus. The band completed its lineup with singer and guitarist Myles Kennedy—then known for his work with the Mayfield Four—and signed to Wind-up Records. In the studio, Alter Bridge took a collaborative approach, working with producer Ben Grosse (Depeche Mode, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Thirty Seconds to Mars), to create their own special brand of hard rock, blending post-grunge riffs, soaring melodies and plenty of blazing guitar solos.

Setting the tone for One Day Remains is the metal-tinged opener “Find the Real,” a searing, high- energy track that showcases Kennedy’s dynamic vocals. The album features one of Alter Bridge’s biggest hits, “Open Your Eyes,” which served as the band’s debut single. The anthemic track peaked at No.2 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart, while it was a Top 50 hit in Australia and Canada. “Find the Real” also had significant success, landing in the Top 10 of Billboard’s Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and becoming the official theme to the 2005 WWE Royal Rumble. Fan favorite “Metalingus,” meanwhile, was adopted by WWE Hall of Famer Adam “Edge” Copeland as his entrance theme and, today, remains the band’s highest-streaming song. The four-piece also shows off a softer side through tracks “Broken Wings,” “Shed My Skin” and the deeply personal “In Loving Memory,” written by Tremonti as a tribute to his late mother.

Upon its release in August 2004, One Day Remains was an immediate bestseller, peaking at No.5 on the Billboard 200 and earning a Gold certification from the RIAA. Elsewhere, it was a Top 40 hit in Australia and New Zealand, while it found chart success in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, and beyond. The album also earned plenty of attention in the press. Southern California’s KNAC praised One Day Remains as “a pure rock album. . . .Tremonti’s guitar playing reflects a new high of enthusiasm and excitement as heard on all the songs from their debut release.” Sputnik Music hailed it as “a great debut. . . .Mark is a down-right prodigy of the guitar and manages to make everything he writes sound great.”

Looking back on two decades since the band’s debut release, Myles Kennedy reflects, “It’s been 20 years since we released One Day Remains. We are forever grateful to everyone who has supported us on this amazing journey. Thank you for the last 20 years and we are excited for what the future holds.”

Today, Alter Bridge have remained at the forefront of the global hard rock scene with seven best-selling studio albums, including the broadly acclaimed Blackbird (2007), AB III (2010), Fortress (2013), The Last Hero (2016), Walk the Sky (2019) and, most recently, Pawns & Kings (2022). They also maintain an active touring schedule in the US and abroad, having played such legendary stages as the O2 Arena, Wembley Arena and the Royal Albert Hall (all of which have resulted in Top 5 UK live albums), as well as Britain’s Download Festival, France’s Hellfest and Germany’s Rock am Ring/Rock im Park. Alter Bridge plans to start work on new material for their eighth studio album in Spring of 2025.