Black Label Society

What's everyone's opinion on BLS? I love Zakk's playing and that is the main reason i like BLS. I think he is an underrated singer as well.

Favorite songs include

Life,Birth,Blood,Doom ,Genocide Junkies, Spoke in the Wheel, Rust, 13 Years of Grief, Funeral Bell, and many more..

Good, not great. He's too in love with the harmonic squeal lately. 1919 Eternal is my fave.

I like 'em a lot. I actually like the slow/melodic songs as much as the heavier stuff.

^ Yea i love his acoustic work and def the more mellow songs from Book of shadows, even though i think that was just under the name Zakk Wylde.

As for the Squealies thats his trademark and being a guitar player some of them pinch harmonics are hard to pull off on some of his songs..

One of my favorites. I love the heavy stuff and the slow stuff. And I think Zakk is getting better as a songwriter and a singer. Kind of weird how as his voice gets stronger and he's actually singing in a clean tone he's sounding a bit like Ozzy.

I never could get into them because of the overuse of the pinch note. I should dig them out again and give them another shot.

the only album Zakk has played on that i liked was No Rest For The Wicked.

I really like their stuff too. I think Zakk Wylde is an exceptional guitar player. At times, his voice can get a bit on the annoying side, but overall, it's good stuff. I dig Zakk's acousticly inclined stuff too.

Tall Tyrion wrote:

I never could get into them because of the overuse of the pinch note. I should dig them out again and give them another shot.

I love the pinch notes in his songs. Thats his trademark. There are a lot of songs without the pinch harmonics in them.

I really liked BLS for the longest time until I saw them live. The show was the most boring, by-the-numbers concert I had ever seen and the sound was awful. Since then, I have a hard time listening to the cd's because it brings back bad memories of the show.

I really liked Pride and Glory. He needs to do another in that vein.

catchy, slow, grimy music? gotta love it

BLS are ok.

I've been a fan of ZW for years, did a one on one interview with him on Ozzy's No MOre Tears tour! I've since done several phoners with him with his BLS project, he's a real down to earth nice guy to talk to. I do love the BLS albums and looking forward to the next creation! I guess my fav would be Sonic Brew-TJ

emptytomb1 wrote:

I really liked Pride and Glory. He needs to do another in that vein.

Nooooo! That's my least favorite Zakk album.

You don't have to buy it you know?

emptytomb1 wrote:

You don't have to buy it you know?

Um...yeah I do.

I like em alot even though I only have about half of his catalogue + the Pride and Glory stuff. He is certainly, imho, getting better at songwriting and the albums seem to flow pretty well. Eventualy, I will have them all.

I really like Bls and Zakk good song is Hell is high and i agree he does use squeal's a bit to much but he makes it work. Also i think hes a pretty good singer

What do you think of Ozzy's sound becoming more like Zakk's?

EvyMetal wrote:

What do you think of Ozzy's sound becoming more like Zakk's?

I don't like it. Ozzy needs to sound like Ozzy. Zakk has BLS to make music, so he doesn't need to make Ozzy's cd's sound like BLS as well.

Despite what Sharon or Ozzy may say about how much Oz contributes, I believe at this point, Zakk writes a bunch of tunes, maybe some lyrics, and some other writers polish up those turds. They prop Ozzy in front of a mic stand for 2 hours, getting what they can on tape, then engineers and producers perform their "studio magic" and *snap* a new album appears.

I don't think it will ever happen at this point (short of Zakk's liver exploding), but I'd like to see Ozzy dump Zakk and get a new shredder. Inject some fresh blood into that band and see what happens.

emptytomb1 wrote:

I really liked Pride and Glory. He needs to do another in that vein.

I like the Pride and Glory disc better than any of his BLS stuff,although some of it isnt bad.

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I don't think it will ever happen at this point (short of Zakk's liver exploding), but I'd like to see Ozzy dump Zakk and get a new shredder. Inject some fresh blood into that band and see what happens.

I agree. Black Rain (harmonic squeal here) sounds too much like (harmonic squeal) a BLS (double harmonic squeal) record.

thrasher73 wrote:

emptytomb1 wrote:

I really liked Pride and Glory. He needs to do another in that vein.

I like the Pride and Glory disc better than any of his BLS stuff,although some of it isnt bad.

I don't care much for the Pride & Glory record. Too much southern-rock vibe for my tastes. And Zakk's vocals sound too forced, like he's trying to sound like Greg Allman or something. He's from New Jersey, not the deep south.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

thrasher73 wrote:

emptytomb1 wrote:

I really liked Pride and Glory. He needs to do another in that vein.

I like the Pride and Glory disc better than any of his BLS stuff,although some of it isnt bad.

I don't care much for the Pride & Glory record. Too much southern-rock vibe for my tastes. And Zakk's vocals sound too forced, like he's trying to sound like Greg Allman or something. He's from New Jersey, not the deep south.

I guess the Southern vibe is why I like it so much.