The Freedom Tower is finally finished. Looks good, nice addition to the skyline. I wish they had rebuilt the towers as they used to be though, or built another one like this. Building just one just doesn't feel like we've bounced right back, the skyline is forever changed like this. Then again, the nation has been forever changed, and many don't want to forget.

I won't be able to listen to this until later today, but I really liked the first single they put out from this new album, and I'm excited to listen to the rest when it comes out.

Alter Bridge Wanted Unpredictable Album
(TeamRock Radio) Alter Bridge guitarist Mark Tremonti says that the band did everything that they could to make their new studio album "Fortress" as unpredictable as possible.

"The last thing we wanted was verse-chorus, verse-chorus and all that. We messed with time signatures, tones, key changes," Tremonti tells MusicRadar. "Everything we could throw at these songs, we did. They have you never knowing what you're getting next."

Part of the process was refusing to take any arrangement for granted. "We didn't want to be easily satisfied," Tremonti says. "It's so tempting to say, 'That's it – it's perfect' the first time you have something.

"But you never really know it's as good as it can be until you exhaust every possibility. That's what we did." Read more and check out the video for the album's first single here.

http://www.teamrockradio.com/news/alter … everything

I'm a little surprised with the results so far. I was expecting masters to win it, but we've got the black album ahead. And it's nice to see people voting for something other than those two, since they're all really good in their own right.

I don't think I'll ever get sick of Enter Sandman. And I'm a NY Yankee fan, so I've been hearing that intro every other game for years.