By Greg Maki-----After the hellscape of 2020, music surged back in a big way throughout 2021. Concerts—even festivals—returned along with a flood of new releases from artists young and old. Metal and hard rock remain far outside the mainstream, but if you put in the effort to look, I’d argue that there’s more quality music... Continue Reading →
By Greg Maki Zakk Wylde has been universally acknowledged and accepted as a guitar god for years, decades even. So how is it that in 2021, nearly 35 years after he skyrocketed to worldwide fame by joining Ozzy Osbourne’s band, he has churned out an album with what might be his most impressive display of... Continue Reading →
Black Label Society will host a special Thanksgiving Day listening party of its new album, "Doom Crew Inc." The record, the band's 11th studio effort, will be released the following day, Nov. 26, 2021, via MNRK Music. Starting at 1 p.m. PT/4 p.m. ET Nov. 25, hear "Doom Crew Inc." a day early, followed by... Continue Reading →
Zakk Wylde, Black Label Society frontman and Ozzy Osbourne guitarist, has joined forces with Death Wish Coffee for Valhalla Java Odinforce Blend. Consistently ranked in the top 100 and ranking as high as the number five best-selling whole bean coffees on Amazon, where it boasts a 4.7-star average from over 10,000 reviews, Valhalla Java is... Continue Reading →
Black Label Society will release its 11th studio album, "Doom Crew Inc.," on Nov. 26, 2021, via Entertainment One (eOne). The album will be available digitally, on CD and vinyl, plus a deluxe edition that includes vinyl, CD longbox, cassette and more. Pre-order here. The band also has debuted a video for the record's first... Continue Reading →
Black Label Society has announced five additional dates on the "Doom Trooping Over North America" tour taking place later in 2021. Last month, the band initially announced more than 40 dates spanning coast to coast this fall and will wrap up the tour at the end of December with Armored Saint and Prong. Tickets for the five... Continue Reading →
Black Label Society will head back out on the road in fall 2021 for a U.S. tour with Obituary and Prong as support. Kicking off Oct. 1 in Sacramento, California, the "Doom Trooping Over North America" tour will span coast to coast before wrapping up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the end of November. Tickets... Continue Reading →
Black Label Society has premiered a music video for "House of Doom," the latest in a new series of videos from the "None More Black" box set, available now via Entertainment One (eOne). "House of Doom” is a ballad reworking by Zakk Wylde and company of the original track taken from the BLS album "Hangover Music... Continue Reading →
Black Label Society has shared a music video for "Heart of Darkness" in continued celebration of its "None More Black" box set, available now via Entertainment One (eOne). The song originally is from the band's ninth studio album, "Catacombs of the Black Vatican" (2014), now remastered and reissued as a double LP in the career-spanning box set... Continue Reading →
Black Label Society has released the "None More Black" box set, featuring remastered versions of all of its studio recordings on colored vinyl, along with two bonus albums, a 32-page hardcover photo book, a bottle opener and the official "Odin's Demolition Squad" patch. The set comes in an "indestructible black on black embossed collection box."... Continue Reading →
