NEW ALBUM ORDER OF THE BLACK OUT AUGUST 23
At Altsounds.com we are proud to announce that we have the UK exclusive album stream of the brand new Black Label Society album "Order Of The Black Out". Starting today, visitors can listen to this album in its entirety right here on Altsounds.com and we are very glad to be able to showcase it for you all.
Details about the album are included below as is the album stream. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on this album so please leave your comments below.
Details about the album are included below as is the album stream. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on this album so please leave your comments below.
Album Details:
In the two decades since Ozzy Osbourne hired him away from his job at a New Jersey gas station to become his new guitarist, Zakk Wylde has established himself as a guitar icon known and revered the world over. Writing and recording with Osbourne led to multi-platinum success, inspiring him to create the now legendary band Black Label Society in 1998. Over the last decade, diehard BLS fans - the Berserkers - along with Wylde have created a heavy metal institution true to his vision of uncompromising, unfiltered, and unrestrained rock ‘n’ roll. Now, 2010 sees Black Label Society on the verge of releasing their eighth studio album. Titled Order of the Black, the new record is a cacophony of heavy riffing, heartfelt ballads, and thunderous metal.
In somewhat unknown personal territory for this album, the last 12 months have seen Wylde’s life radically altered. First, doctors discovered blood clots in his leg. “The doc was like, ‘you have, what, a drink a day?’ Six? 12? A case?’ I’m like, ‘It’s a liquid diet,’” says Wylde, laughing. “I mean, I’d drink beer while lifting weights. That’s Black Label Society style for you right there. But the doc told me if I kept this up, I’d be dead by the time I was 50. So I stopped drinking. No big deal.”
Then, the second bomb dropped. Ozzy announced he was looking for a new guitarist. “I heard that, and to me, hey, the glass was half-full,” he says. “It’s like, thanks for letting me be there for 23 years! I’ll always cherish that. What more could Ozzy do for me at this point?” Still friends, BLS will perform on this summer’s US Ozzfest tour. “I look at it this way: instead of 24-7, Black Label Society is now my life 25-8,” he says. Come September, Black Label will embark on their own inaugural US headlining festival tour too - The Black Label Berzerkus.
For the new Black Label Society opus, Wylde recorded with his bandmate JD DeServio and new drummer Will Hunt in his recently completed home studio, dubbed the Black Label Bunker. “I gutted the whole place, made it state-of-the-art, mixed, and recorded there – the whole thing came out slammin’,” he says.
Order of the Black isn’t a radical departure from the band’s previous work – it’s simply a refinement. There are brutal riffs (“Crazy Horse”), Southern doom (“Southern Dissolution”), gentle contemplation (the piano ballads “Darkest Days” and “Time Waits for No One”) and epic thrash (“Godspeed Hellbound”). The album’s first single, “Parade of the Dead,” features some vintage shredding from Wylde as well as an infectious groove.
While tracks like “Darkest Days” and “Shallow Grave” may portend a darker, more personal record, Wylde doesn’t necessarily see the album going one particular direction, be it heavier, moodier or lighter. “It’s just whatever the songs are,” says Wylde. “I hate bands who are like ‘This is our heaviest yet’…so it’s just picking and screaming now? Or, ‘this is the fastest guitar playing I’ve ever done.’ Then you’re listening to notes. My favourite artists – Zeppelin, Sabbath, Elton John – the whole thing is songs. Back in Black wasn’t the heaviest or most vulgar AC/DC album – it has the best songs.”
Set for release in August with four different front cover artworks – which one depending where in the world you are – the album will be made available digitally and as a standard CD but also as part of a very special box set, that will retail exclusively from the band’s webstore. In addition to the standard CD, box set buyers will also get a 3 Nail Cross Pendant, a 5x7” Lithograph autographed by Zakk Wylde, a Keg Tap Handle, and an exclusive T-Shirt , all housed in a Thor’s Hammer box.
This phenomenally successful musician has won nearly every guitar award imaginable and is a major influence on the new battalion of young axe-men. Zakk also continues to have custom guitar lines for Gibson and Epiphone - which include the Les Paul “bullseye” signature that you may have seen used recently by none other than…Justin Bieber guitarist Dan Kanter. Wylde only has admiration for Bieber and his guitarist. “Right now, I think a bunch of people see me on stage and think I’m playing a Dan Kanter guitar,” he says, laughing. “All I know is, right after that photo came out of him with that guitar, our Twitter feed went from 20,000 to like 18 million. We’re bringing a lot of young chicks to the dark side!”
Black Label Society perform at the High Voltage festival in London on July 24.
ORDER OF THE BLACK TRACKLIST
1. Crazy Horse
2. Overlord
3. Parade Of The Dead
4. Darkest Days
5. Black Sunday
6. Southern Dissolution
7. Time Waits For No One
8. Godspeed Hell Bound
9. War Of Heaven
10. Shallow Grave
11. Chupacatra
12. Riders Of The Damned
13. January
14. Can't Find My Way Home
In the two decades since Ozzy Osbourne hired him away from his job at a New Jersey gas station to become his new guitarist, Zakk Wylde has established himself as a guitar icon known and revered the world over. Writing and recording with Osbourne led to multi-platinum success, inspiring him to create the now legendary band Black Label Society in 1998. Over the last decade, diehard BLS fans - the Berserkers - along with Wylde have created a heavy metal institution true to his vision of uncompromising, unfiltered, and unrestrained rock ‘n’ roll. Now, 2010 sees Black Label Society on the verge of releasing their eighth studio album. Titled Order of the Black, the new record is a cacophony of heavy riffing, heartfelt ballads, and thunderous metal.
In somewhat unknown personal territory for this album, the last 12 months have seen Wylde’s life radically altered. First, doctors discovered blood clots in his leg. “The doc was like, ‘you have, what, a drink a day?’ Six? 12? A case?’ I’m like, ‘It’s a liquid diet,’” says Wylde, laughing. “I mean, I’d drink beer while lifting weights. That’s Black Label Society style for you right there. But the doc told me if I kept this up, I’d be dead by the time I was 50. So I stopped drinking. No big deal.”
Then, the second bomb dropped. Ozzy announced he was looking for a new guitarist. “I heard that, and to me, hey, the glass was half-full,” he says. “It’s like, thanks for letting me be there for 23 years! I’ll always cherish that. What more could Ozzy do for me at this point?” Still friends, BLS will perform on this summer’s US Ozzfest tour. “I look at it this way: instead of 24-7, Black Label Society is now my life 25-8,” he says. Come September, Black Label will embark on their own inaugural US headlining festival tour too - The Black Label Berzerkus.
For the new Black Label Society opus, Wylde recorded with his bandmate JD DeServio and new drummer Will Hunt in his recently completed home studio, dubbed the Black Label Bunker. “I gutted the whole place, made it state-of-the-art, mixed, and recorded there – the whole thing came out slammin’,” he says.
Order of the Black isn’t a radical departure from the band’s previous work – it’s simply a refinement. There are brutal riffs (“Crazy Horse”), Southern doom (“Southern Dissolution”), gentle contemplation (the piano ballads “Darkest Days” and “Time Waits for No One”) and epic thrash (“Godspeed Hellbound”). The album’s first single, “Parade of the Dead,” features some vintage shredding from Wylde as well as an infectious groove.
While tracks like “Darkest Days” and “Shallow Grave” may portend a darker, more personal record, Wylde doesn’t necessarily see the album going one particular direction, be it heavier, moodier or lighter. “It’s just whatever the songs are,” says Wylde. “I hate bands who are like ‘This is our heaviest yet’…so it’s just picking and screaming now? Or, ‘this is the fastest guitar playing I’ve ever done.’ Then you’re listening to notes. My favourite artists – Zeppelin, Sabbath, Elton John – the whole thing is songs. Back in Black wasn’t the heaviest or most vulgar AC/DC album – it has the best songs.”
Set for release in August with four different front cover artworks – which one depending where in the world you are – the album will be made available digitally and as a standard CD but also as part of a very special box set, that will retail exclusively from the band’s webstore. In addition to the standard CD, box set buyers will also get a 3 Nail Cross Pendant, a 5x7” Lithograph autographed by Zakk Wylde, a Keg Tap Handle, and an exclusive T-Shirt , all housed in a Thor’s Hammer box.
This phenomenally successful musician has won nearly every guitar award imaginable and is a major influence on the new battalion of young axe-men. Zakk also continues to have custom guitar lines for Gibson and Epiphone - which include the Les Paul “bullseye” signature that you may have seen used recently by none other than…Justin Bieber guitarist Dan Kanter. Wylde only has admiration for Bieber and his guitarist. “Right now, I think a bunch of people see me on stage and think I’m playing a Dan Kanter guitar,” he says, laughing. “All I know is, right after that photo came out of him with that guitar, our Twitter feed went from 20,000 to like 18 million. We’re bringing a lot of young chicks to the dark side!”
Black Label Society perform at the High Voltage festival in London on July 24.
ORDER OF THE BLACK TRACKLIST
1. Crazy Horse
2. Overlord
3. Parade Of The Dead
4. Darkest Days
5. Black Sunday
6. Southern Dissolution
7. Time Waits For No One
8. Godspeed Hell Bound
9. War Of Heaven
10. Shallow Grave
11. Chupacatra
12. Riders Of The Damned
13. January
14. Can't Find My Way Home
