Credit: Dan SturgessAfter many years of exploring the darkness, Alter Bridge looks to the light with the band’s new album, Walk the Sky.
“A lot of the record deals with the idea of a certain awareness and a certain realization that, yeah, time is finite,” frontman Myles Kennedy tells ABC Audio. “But also learning to really live in the moment, be present, and adopt that kind of philosophy of this moment is really all that matters.”
That may seem like a surprisingly life-affirming message from the band that wrote “Isolation” and “Addicted to Pain,” and Kennedy feels that Walk the Sky illustrates his own change in outlook on life. In fact, he sees the new record as a “continuation” of Alter Bridge’s 2010 effort, the much darker AB III.
“There’s a certain amount of disillusionment that is expressed on Alter Bridge III,” Kennedy explains. “You fast-forward 10 years later to Walk the Sky, and it’s suddenly really reevaluating your views on life.”
That reevaluation is certainly present on the album’s lead single, “Wouldn’t You Rather.” Kennedy says that the track, which currently sits in the top 20 on Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Songs chart, is about “following your bliss.”
“It’s about doing what you love,” Kennedy says. “Not necessarily chasing what we’re taught to believe in this day and age — especially in Western culture — to live for money and to live for material possessions, but do things for the right reasons.”
He adds, “Do something that you love that brings you great satisfaction outside of material gains.”
Walk the Sky is out now. Alter Bridge is currently touring the U.S. in support of the record alongside Skillet.
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