Zakk Wylde was only 19 when he joined Ozzy Osburne as the bands guitarrist. He played with Ozzy for nearly 20 years and released a number of albums with his band Black Label Society which he started in 1998. BLS plays what Zakk says, no bullshit rock'n'roll. I'd like to describe it as beer- and boozeaffected heavy-as-hell bikermetal, the way heavy metal should be played. This album is the best I've heard with BLS. The bassist James LoMenzo has played with White Lion for some years He left BLS in 2005. Nick Catanese is an original member of BLS and has another band, Speed X, which has released an album.

1)Fire it up (8,0) Heavy as hell!

2)What's in you (8,5) Even heavier!

3)Suicide messiah (9,0) Heaviest there is and a superb track.

4)Forever down (8,0) Balladintro that bursts into a damn good and as usual heavy but melodic song.

5)In this river (7,5) A wonderful ballad dedicaded to Zakk's good friend Pantera's Dimebag Darrell that was shot on stage in 2004. A little too repetitive refrain though. Ozzy appears on guestvocals.

6)You must be blind (5,0) A very strange track with the same riff all the time. Don't like it.

7)Death march (7,0) Just a normal song.

8)Dr. Octavia (-) Fill-out guitarmadness.

9)Say what you will (8,0) A good uptempo rocker.

10)Too tough to die (7,0) Midtempo, nothing special.

11)Electric hellfire (7,0)

12)Spread your wings (8,0) Back to the heavy and good stuff!

13)Been a long time (8,0)

14)Dirt on the grave (7,5)

15)I never dreamed (9,0) A wonderful cover of the old Lynyrd Skynyrd-song from the 70's. Perfect ending to the album.

Score: 7,68

Zakk Wylde-vocals, guitar, piano (b.1967)

Nick Catanese-guitar

James LoMenzo-bass

Craig Nunenmacher-drums

www.blacklabelsociety.com

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