The End Will Show Us How

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• Bands:
  TREMONTI
• Duration: 00:56:02
• Available from: 10/01/2025
• Label:

• Napalm Records

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With a discography now close to reaching the milestone of twenty albums in just over a quarter of a century, it is difficult to expect who knows what innovations from Mark Tremonti, although his solo project, strong in a more intimate live dimension and greater freedom of expression, has seen the most interesting releases of the Italian-American guitar hero in the last ten years, as has happened for his companion Myles Kennedy.
Having started a little quietly with the more metallic “All I Was”, over time Tremonti has grown in terms of ambitions with twin albums and increasingly refined concepts, even if the differences compared to the parent band have become increasingly thinner, so as in Kennedy's latest solo work: if it weren't for Mark's voice, the opener “The Mother The Earth And I”, as well as the quieter “It's Not Over” or the title track, would have worked well also on an album by Alter Bridge, strong with a modern hard rock not dissimilar to what is contained in “Pawns And Kings”.
The heavier component that had characterized the side-project since the beginning emerges in songs full of groove such as “One More Time”, “Nails” or “Live In Fear”, stylistically closer to Sevendust with the addition of very more varied, but here too there is nothing new compared to what has already been heard in previous works, net of a darker lyrical concept, more than ever inspired by the geopolitical situation.
Also inevitable is the emotional crescendo in the almost six minutes of “Now That I've Made It” (a good piece, without wanting to inconvenience the comparison with the unattainable “Blackbird” for the umpteenth time), while the equally long “All The Wicked Things” justifies its duration with synth inserts, the only experimental concession to a record that is otherwise faithful to the line but which would have benefited from a slightly more streamlined tracklist (“Tomorrow We Will Fail” and “The Bottom,” for example, slip by quite anonymously.)
As in the MCU – replace Napalm with Marvel and Michael Baskette with Kevin Feige – Mark Tremonti now seems to have become part of a larger system where all the various protagonists (Alter Bridge, Tremonti, Myles Kennedy, Sevendust, Mammoth WVH…) are linked together of them in a script that is now consolidated and has become quite predictable, if still successful.
Cynicism aside, “The End Will Show Us How” still remains a good modern hard rock record, with excellent guitar textures and always effective choruses.