Tremonti
From:
Orlando,
FL,
United States
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Tremonti Interviews and Features
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Interview
Mark Tremonti Explains "A Dying Machine"
With a recording career that stretches back twenty five years, founding two of the most successful rock bands in recent memory and with a blistering and respected solo project under his belt, Mark Tremonti has become one of the most revered guitarists of recent times. Selling over fifty three million albums worldwide with Creed alone, Mark Tremonti has fought through every obstacle in his path to craft some of the most popular rock hits of the 21st century.
This year, Mark's eponymous solo band released the album, "A Dying Machine," a science fiction concept album that's paired with a novel Mark co wrote with John Shirley. It's a fascinating story of love, technology and freedom which comes together as a solid ball of rock and has so far delighted both listeners and readers. Last night, I caught up with Mark to discuss the album, the book, the success of his solo band and when we can expect to hear new material from Alter Bridge. You can watch the interview in full below.
Diamond Oz: The new album, "A Dying Machine" is out now and it's very special because it's not just an album, it's a book as well. Obviously a lot of thought and preparation has gone into this. How long how had you had this idea?
Mark Tremonti: I was on tour with Alter Bridge in Hungary and I was warming up and came across a chord progression a really liked and started singing along to it and the lyrics, "A dying machine" came out. I was reading the Dark Tower series at the time and in the third book, Wastelands, there's a scene where a giant, two thousand year old creature that's part machine is dying and I thought that was kind of cool concept, a machine dying. So I created this conversation between a man and a woman, the machine being the woman that was built and put on this Earth just to a partner of this man and she was getting old and falling apart while all she knows is to please this man, but he's kind of over it. I loved the journey that writing the song took me on and from that point on it just took off.More...