Order Of The Black

ご存知ザック・ワイルド(g)率いるブラック・レーベル・ソサイアティの8枚目となるスタジオ・アルバム登場！オジー・オズボーン・バンドから離脱し、荒野へと解き放たれた野獣は、もう誰の手にも負えない！真のギター・ヒーロー、ザック・ワイルド率いるBLS、会心のアルバムが遂に完成。今作から、モトリー・クルーのトミー・リーのバンド、メソッズ・オブ・メイヘムや、エヴァネッセンスにも在籍しているウィル・ハント(ds)が加入し、さすがのタイトなドラミングを披露している。こちらは、北米圏オリジナル・アートワーク仕様。
Victor Entertainment

Black Label Society have a new drummer for 2010’s Order of the Black, but the overall big picture hasn’t changed much for Zakk Wylde’s Southern-fried metalheads: they’re still an unholy cocktail of Skynyrd, Sabbath, and Metallica, all the sounds that fuel a white trash night out. Wylde does have a tendency to growl like Axl Rose when he slows thing down for a piano ballad, but that downshift doesn’t happen that often: Black Label Society are as close as you can get to unapologetic heavy guitar rock in the 21st century, holding true to the power of two guitars, bass, drums, and overwhelming amplification. Songs don’t necessarily stick but riffs do, as do Wylde’s dexterous solos, which pull off a tricky thing -- they’re breakneck but have a bluesy, almost soulful, undertow. The only real affectation the band has is Wylde’s exaggerated growl, something that grows wearisome over the course of an album, but as pure music, Black Label Society remain as effective as they ever were on Order of the Black. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine