Description

Double album on clear vinyls with gatefold cover. Limited 500 copies

Take about a keg of beer, a Gibson guitar, and a hick with the talent to play it, and you’ll get something resembling Sonic Brew. This is a hefty slab of suth’n frahd heavy metal, very similar in style to some other bands as Corrosion of Conformity, Crowbar, Eyehategod, and some of Phil Anselmo’s (Pantera singer, for the uneducated) various bands. Zakk Wylde, long known for his work with Ozzy Osbourne, formed his brief band Pride & Glory (another redneck metal band) back in 1994, but they broke up after their first and only album. Then in 1996 he released his solo album, Book Of Shadows, which was mostly acoustic folk and country music. Then, slightly overlapped by this boozy southern rock-influenced period, he released this album under the moniker Black Label Society in 1998. This album is heavy as SIN. Just listen to…well, any song. Almost every song is so damn heavy, with overdubbed, chugging, no doubt downtuned guitars and endless levels of distortion. The bass rumbles with the sound of the breaks of an 18-wheeler, and the drums (kudos to Phil Ondich, formerly of another southern metal band, Raging Slab) pound away with talented power. No two songs sound the same, yet at the same time, the whole album just trucks on by with it’s uber-heavy southern-influenced metal. All of them, of course, except T.A.Z., which is a short acoustic instrumental. Now pop out the beers and turn up the volume, because Black Label Society is here to rock your world with southern-fried heavy metal! YEE-HAW!

Track listing:
1. Bored To Tears
2. The Rose Petalled Garden
3. Hey You (Batch Of Lies)
4. Born To Lose
5. Peddlers Of Death
6. Mother Mary
7. Beneath The Tree
8. Low Down
9. T.A.Z.
10. Lost My Better Half
11. Black Pearl
12. World Of Trouble
13. Spoke In The Wheel
14. The Beginning…At Last
15. No More Tears