Alter Bridge Signs With Universal Republic - Press Release

Michael Tremonti · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:07 am

ALTER BRIDGE SIGNS WITH UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC
New Album and Tour Planned For This Fall

July 9, 2007 - New York, NY – The members of Alter Bridge are pleased to announce they have signed an agreement to release their next album on Universal Republic Records. This brand new album is scheduled to be released this fall.

“We’re very excited about beginning this chapter in our lives and career,” commented Grammy Award winning songwriter and guitarist Mark Tremonti. “Universal Republic is a perfect home for us and we’re excited that our fans are going to get to hear all the new songs we’ve been working on for quite some time really soon. The material we’ve been working on is really aggressive and I think it’s the best work we’ve ever done. We can’t wait to get back in front of our loyal fans later this year.”

"We’re thrilled to be partnering up with Alter Bridge," stated Monte Lipman, President of Universal Republic Records. "They're an incredible band with a strong vision that we share together. When Tom (Mackay, SVP A&R) and I met with the group, we knew instantly this is the type of talented people we’d want to be in business with.”

Alter Bridge’s Universal Republic debut will be the follow up to their debut album, the Gold-certified album One Day Remains, which debuted at #5 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart in its first week of release. The album featured three consecutive hits on rock radio: (“Open Your Eyes,” “Find The Real,” and “Broken Wings”). Comprised of Mark Tremonti, Scott Phillips, Brian Marshall and Myles Kennedy, three of the four members of Alter Bridge made up the 30+ million selling band Creed.

The recording of the new album was completed in Nashville, TN last month with famed producer Michael "Elvis" Baskette (Incubus, Chevelle, Three Days Grace). The band has also brought on a new management team with Paul Geary & Steve Wood for Azoff Music Management taking the reigns.

Alter Bridge has kept a conspicuously low profile in the United States since a brief tour in October of 2005. The band toured Europe during the summer and fall of 2005 and the summer of 2006 performing at mostly festival shows with the likes of Metallica, Tool, Guns N’ Roses, Alice In Chains, Audioslave, Velvet Revolver, and Black Sabbath.

The band will be hitting the road upon the release of their 2nd album this fall. Touring details and more information on the new album will be released at a later date.

Magik · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:08 am

Awesome news, thanks Michael Smile

Oh, and first'd :D

SchwiizVT12 · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:09 am

Second, swweeeet! Thanks Mike I love you man!!!

schmo · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:10 am

Hurrah!! the news we have all been waiting for!!
When is more album info likely to come out, IE title, songlist, release dates etc?
Thanks heaps for posting this info out to all the fans.

Seeker_1306 · **Joined:** Mon Jun 13, 2005 5:57 pm **Posts:** 1566

Welp there it is!!

Good to see the ball is rolling. Can't wait to see the next press release.

Seeker_1306 · **Joined:** Mon Jun 13, 2005 5:57 pm **Posts:** 1566

And oh yeah, thank you Michael for giving us an early glimpse of it!

Will this be posted on vh1.com, etc.??

SchwiizVT12 · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:12 am

Say, Michael, you wouldn't happen to know when alterbridge.com is going to be up and running would you?

Thanks for keeping us fans posted, I can't thank you enough! Blue Grin

Ramthrax · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:14 am

coool thanks Michael

mikekugel · **Joined:** Thu Oct 26, 2006 11:43 pm **Posts:** 43

MIKE...UR A CHAMP!
AWESOME STUFF!!
Lets hope they get a chance to come down to Australia

Axlar · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:17 am

sounds good to me!

well.. except for the gazzilionth reminder to the creed-era

guitarchaeologist · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:18 am

Thanks a lot, Michael. Smile

abw1987 · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:18 am

NICE.

Thanks, Michael. Up at 7am, were you?! Heh... heh.

bittercalling · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:18 am

Cool! This right here shows how true Michael is to his word. he said we would be the first to have the press realease so he wakes up at the but crack of dawn and gives it to us. Thank you Mike

al_broccoli · **Joined:** Sun Jun 12, 2005 9:53 am **Posts:** 4894

Awesome start to a new chapter for Alter Bridge! Thanks, Michael!

Willis · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:22 am

wow first page, congratulations to the fellas, they reall yseem happy with the label, cant wait for the press release in a week or so

facepollution · **Joined:** Mon Jun 13, 2005 8:39 am **Posts:** 1443

Cheers for the info, can't fuckin wait!

Michael Tremonti · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:24 am

OneDayRemains wrote:

NICE.

Thanks, Michael. Up at 7am, were you?! Heh... heh.

Not by choice. I said you would have this press release first, before anyone else, so I had to wake up at this very early hour.

Please feel free to pass this on to all sites pertaining to Alter Bridge.

Ryan · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:26 am

awesome!!!! i cannot wait! thanks for getting this to us so early michael! you rule buddy.

dan-ken · **Joined:** Wed Apr 25, 2007 1:47 pm **Posts:** 38

YEAH!!! thanks Michael!! awesome news!

Seeker_1306 · **Joined:** Mon Jun 13, 2005 5:57 pm **Posts:** 1566

And that makes you one awesome guy my friend. We really do appreciate this!

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