BLACK LABEL SOCIETY

Release Year: 2014
Artist Origin: USA
Style: powerful expressive southern metal rock

this haunting eleven track recording finds BLS at their most introspective and compositionally tempered, abandoning much of berserker bravado that fueled earlier releases for a darker, more brooding palette where Zakk Wylde’s guitar tone shifts from war-axe to scalpel, cutting through ballads and mid-tempo grooves with eerie clarity, while his vocals - less bark, more gravel-stained lament - explore weariness, isolation, and spiritual ambiguity rather than the usual swagger, making this album a rare moment of vulnerability and atmosphere in their catalog; subtle Hammond organ textures and unconventional melodic turns lend a kind of Southern weight, offering not bombast but gravity, not chaos but haunted reflection, marking it a singular, inward-facing chapter in otherwise defiant lineage; deluxe digipak edition comes with sixteen page booklet and two bonuses in shape of Dark Side of The Sun and The Nomad, US import