Review by Keith "MuzikMan" Hannaleck
2½ stars out of 4
Ya gotta love guys like Zakk Wylde. He sure keeps everybody guessing
where he is coming from and who he really is. While he is espousing
his beliefs in family and God, in the next gasp of air he is telling
all of you society dwelling motherfuckers (see liner note thank you)
to burn in hell with the rest of the pissin', pukin', and fightin'
idiots. Listen to the words of the track "Berserkers," you will see
what I mean. He is a lot like the crazed Ozzy that he used to play
guitar for. Is it his alter ego coming forth in his blazing guitar
notes that pushes him to spew this filth and anger? Who knows? Its
only rock n' roll in the end anyway.
"Black Label Society" has released their most recent episode of death,
gloom, and doom for all of you aspiring mass murderers and mosh pit
disciples. All of the rhetoric aside, this is a real hell bent for
leather kick ass CD. At times he actually sounds like Ozzy when sings,
and other times he gives the patented death growl to suit his chunky
and foreboding guitar riffs. I have no bone of contention with the
way this man plays his guitar, his philosophy of life leaves a lot
to be desired, and his attitude needs some tweaking, but it's all
just an act any way right? Well, who knows anymore the difference
between what's real and fabricated? Don't think to heavily on that
subject, just get this CD and rock yourself into the abyss of metal
and doom of Zakk Wylde and his own personal society of darkness and
what it provides, if your into it that is. If you stop and think about
it for a moment, aren't a lot of us like Zakk's music? We go to church
on Sunday and cuss like a trooper all week long before Sunday rolls
around again, uh huh. I pray to the almighty and still swear like
I am in still the Navy some days. We all have two sides to our personalities,
and the music is showing us the truth. Life is black and white, good
and evil, a veritable two sided coin. It is what and who we are whether
we want to admit it or not.
Just when he has got you convinced he is straight from Satan's lair
he plays a beautiful acoustic rendition of "America The Beautiful"
to close out the CD. Go figure. Just get the damned CD for old glory
and listen to that track; you will want to enlist in the armed forces
of the good old U.S.A. Just think about it, you will be able to go
to some foreign land and pummel an entire country into submission
and actually kill people you don't even know. Sounds like fun doesn't
it? Nah, just get the CD and pretend like Zakk does.
1. Bleed For Me
2. Lords Of Destination
3. Demise Of Sanity
4. Life, Birth, Blood, Doom
5. Bridge To Cross
6. Battering Ram
7. Speedball
8. Graveyard Disciples
9. Genocide Junkies
10. Lost Heaven
11. Refuse To Bow Down
12. Mass Murder Machine
13. Beserkers
14. America The Beautiful
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