12-08-2010, 10:38
released August 10th, 2010
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from the album - Parade Of The Dead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuCtL5SrW94
from all music
After falling out with mentor Ozzy Osbourne following the recording sessions for 1995's Ozzmosis, guitarist Zakk Wylde struck out on his own with his first solo album, Book of Shadows, in 1996. When it failed to score any mainstream success, the six-stringer took an extended break before resurfacing with a new album and band called Black Label Society in 1999, featuring Wylde on vocals, guitar, and bass and drummer Phil Ondich. A number of different musicians would sift through the band's ranks during the convoluted tour that followed, but Ondich was back on the drum stool by the time Black Label Society recorded 2000's Stronger Than Death album for new label Spitfire Records. The subsequent tour included a slot on the second stage of his old boss' Ozzfest tour and yielded the Alcohol Fueled Brewtality Live!! album in 2001. The band returned to Ozzfest the following year (this time on the main stage) in support of the 1919 Eternal LP. Blessed Hellride appeared in 2003 and Hangover Music, Vol. 6 followed a year later. Mafia, Black Label Society's seventh album, was released in spring 2005. The following October, Spitfire Records issued the Wylde work compilation Kings of Damnation: Era 1998-2004. In 2006, the band began their relationship with the Roadrunner label with a new album, Shot to Hell.
The Black Label Societyâs engagement with Roadrunner was short-lived, with the band departing the label the following year. Most of 2007 was spent with the members pursuing other projects - Wylde once again toured with Ozzy, while current members bassist JD Deservio and guitarist Nick Catanese concentrated on their own bands. A compilation called Skullage appeared in 2009, then Wylde pulled the band - now featuring Catanese and Deservio and drummer Will Hunt - into the studio for Order of the Black, Black Label Societyâs eighth album, released in the summer of 2010.
album review
Black Label Society have a new drummer for 2010âs Order of the Black, but the overall big picture hasnât changed much for Zakk Wyldeâs Southern-fried metalheads: theyâre still an unholy cocktail of Skynyrd, Sabbath, and Metallica, all the sounds that fuel a white trash night out. Wylde does have a tendency to growl like Axl Rose when he slows thing down for a piano ballad, but that downshift doesnât happen that often: Black Label Society are as close as you can get to unapologetic heavy guitar rock in the 21st century, holding true to the power of two guitars, bass, drums, and overwhelming amplification. Songs donât necessarily stick but riffs do, as do Wyldeâs dexterous solos, which pull off a tricky thing â theyâre breakneck but have a bluesy, almost soulful, undertow. The only real affectation the band has is Wyldeâs exaggerated growl, something that grows wearisome over the course of an album, but as pure music, Black Label Society remain as effective as they ever were on Order of the Black.
Track Listing
1 Crazy Horse 4:04
2 Overlord 6:05
3 Parade of the Dead 3:36
4 Darkest Days 4:17
5 Black Sunday 3:23
6 Southern Dissolution 4:56
7 Time Waits for No One 3:36
8 Godspeed Hellbound 4:43
9 War of Heaven 4:09
10 Shallow Grave 3:37
11 Chupacabra :49
12 Riders of the Damned 3:23
13 January 2:20
from the album - Parade Of The Dead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuCtL5SrW94
from all music
After falling out with mentor Ozzy Osbourne following the recording sessions for 1995's Ozzmosis, guitarist Zakk Wylde struck out on his own with his first solo album, Book of Shadows, in 1996. When it failed to score any mainstream success, the six-stringer took an extended break before resurfacing with a new album and band called Black Label Society in 1999, featuring Wylde on vocals, guitar, and bass and drummer Phil Ondich. A number of different musicians would sift through the band's ranks during the convoluted tour that followed, but Ondich was back on the drum stool by the time Black Label Society recorded 2000's Stronger Than Death album for new label Spitfire Records. The subsequent tour included a slot on the second stage of his old boss' Ozzfest tour and yielded the Alcohol Fueled Brewtality Live!! album in 2001. The band returned to Ozzfest the following year (this time on the main stage) in support of the 1919 Eternal LP. Blessed Hellride appeared in 2003 and Hangover Music, Vol. 6 followed a year later. Mafia, Black Label Society's seventh album, was released in spring 2005. The following October, Spitfire Records issued the Wylde work compilation Kings of Damnation: Era 1998-2004. In 2006, the band began their relationship with the Roadrunner label with a new album, Shot to Hell.
The Black Label Societyâs engagement with Roadrunner was short-lived, with the band departing the label the following year. Most of 2007 was spent with the members pursuing other projects - Wylde once again toured with Ozzy, while current members bassist JD Deservio and guitarist Nick Catanese concentrated on their own bands. A compilation called Skullage appeared in 2009, then Wylde pulled the band - now featuring Catanese and Deservio and drummer Will Hunt - into the studio for Order of the Black, Black Label Societyâs eighth album, released in the summer of 2010.
album review
Black Label Society have a new drummer for 2010âs Order of the Black, but the overall big picture hasnât changed much for Zakk Wyldeâs Southern-fried metalheads: theyâre still an unholy cocktail of Skynyrd, Sabbath, and Metallica, all the sounds that fuel a white trash night out. Wylde does have a tendency to growl like Axl Rose when he slows thing down for a piano ballad, but that downshift doesnât happen that often: Black Label Society are as close as you can get to unapologetic heavy guitar rock in the 21st century, holding true to the power of two guitars, bass, drums, and overwhelming amplification. Songs donât necessarily stick but riffs do, as do Wyldeâs dexterous solos, which pull off a tricky thing â theyâre breakneck but have a bluesy, almost soulful, undertow. The only real affectation the band has is Wyldeâs exaggerated growl, something that grows wearisome over the course of an album, but as pure music, Black Label Society remain as effective as they ever were on Order of the Black.
Track Listing
1 Crazy Horse 4:04
2 Overlord 6:05
3 Parade of the Dead 3:36
4 Darkest Days 4:17
5 Black Sunday 3:23
6 Southern Dissolution 4:56
7 Time Waits for No One 3:36
8 Godspeed Hellbound 4:43
9 War of Heaven 4:09
10 Shallow Grave 3:37
11 Chupacabra :49
12 Riders of the Damned 3:23
13 January 2:20