Black Label Society
May 5, 2022
Black Label Society features Zakk Wylde – Vocals, Lead Guitar, John DeServio – Bass, Backing Vocals, Jeff Fabb - Drums, and Dario Lorina – Rhythm Guitar, Backing Vocals. A dedicated disciple of Zeppelin, Sabbath, and Deep Purple, Zakk Wylde looks to the massive guitar hooks in classics like “Whole Lotta Love,” “Into the Void,” and “Smoke On the Water” as guiding lights. Wylde says, “The main ingredient in any Black Label soup is the riff."
Black Label Society builds their music on this simple truth, as evident on "Back in Black" as on the dozen songs comprising "Doom Crew Inc.", the band's eleventh album. "Doom Crew Inc." is both a tribute to the band’s “first to bleed, last to leave” road crew and a salute to the legion whose support, stretching back to 1998, rivals that of the KISS Army.
Wylde rose to prominence when Ozzy Osbourne chose him as his loyal axe-man, based on a cassette he mailed in as a teen. Guitar World put him on their cover more than a dozen times in recognition of his work on multiplatinum albums by the icon Ozzy he calls “the Boss” and the two decades of music made by BLS.
Like every BLS album since 2010, the band tracked "Doom Crew Inc." at Zakk’s home studio, aka the Black Vatican. The latest single from the album is "You Made Me Want To Live" and is another example of the simplicity of BLS bangers and the lessons Wylde first heard on "We Sold Our Soul for Rock N’ Roll." “Less is more with everything,” says Wylde, “Except the guitar solos.”