Black Label Society

Black Label Society

Patience, goons: it's gonna take a while to wrap your metal-plated noggin around Hangover Music Vol. VI. A vast departure for BLS leader Zakk Wylde, it lacks the crushing distorted guitars and detuned riffing you've come to know and love. Instead, feast your ears on a borderline acoustic album that features looming, downtrodden songs. Yes, it's a...
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Hangover Music Vol. VI

Video Of The Day: Black Label Society's "Overlord"

Alright, I didn't know Zakk Wylde had this in him, but his Black Label Society have released an incredibly hilarious video for "Overlord."It features Wylde dressed up in an Uma Thurman-esque yellow, Kill Bill jumpsuit karate punching evil samurai warriors and a John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever lookalike called Dick Assman and two nunchuck-...
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Black Label Society

I Read The News Today... For June 16, 2010

The Walkmen's sixth studio album, Lisbon, is out Sept. 14. What, are they pulling for Portugal in the World Cup or something? Pitchfork Foo Fighters are suing an Australian advertising agency for copyright violation, saying they used part of the Foos' "Learn To Fly" without permission. World Entertainment News Network Mogwai's...
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Zakk Wylde Returns To The Road

Black Label Society's 2009 North American "Black Label Bash Tour" will be the heavy rock band's first headlining jaunt since they played shows last fall in support of Shot To Hell. BLS will release a new album in 2009, while main man Zakk Wylde and Gretchen Wilson will record a cover of Stevie Nicks and Don Henley’s "Leather And...
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Zakk Wylde Will Burn Your Ass

Zakk Wylde is best known as a guitarist for Black Label Society and Ozzy Osbourne. That's followed closely by his reputation as a huge beer drinker. Now he's hoping for a trifecta by introducing a line of four hot sauces. Black Label Society's hardcore fans, known as Berserkers, have a motto of "Strength, Determination, Merciless, Forever....
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Zakk Wylde Shot To Hell With New Black Label Society Album

Guitar guru Zakk Wylde and his band Black Label Society have wrapped up work on their latest studio album and will release Shot To Hell on Sept. 12 via Roadrunner. The new disc is Wylde's eighth since becoming Ozzy Osbourne's lead guitarist and co-songwriter 20 years ago. A fast follow-up to 2005's Mafia, Shot To Hell was produced by Wylde and...
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Zakk Wylde Makes Friends With Theory Of A Deadman

There's lots of news around the Zakk Wylde camp. The latest has his publicist (and his wife) quashing the rumour that Ozzy has fired him for excessive drinking, with there being a link to Buckethead from GN'R as a replacement. Ozzy's European tour has indeed been cancelled, but rather, it is due to Ozzy's medical condition, a bad tremor he'...
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Black Label Society — 1919 Eternal

God almighty, who would’ve ever thought that Zakk Wylde, writer of some of Ozzy Osbourne’s best work, could suck this royally? This shit is so carbon-copied, predictable and boring it comes across like the Creed of heavy music. On one tune, he actually says, "I’d face death to see you smile." With pablum like this, your career’s death is...
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Black Label Society - 1919 Eternal
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