Hot Stew and Limoncello
I do like this for its pulverising persistence and
occasional Zakk Wylde ballad where prettiness is not by contrast and carried on
such macho beauty. There are plenty of Sabbath/Ozzy echoes in the vocal and the
riffs [check out the pulsing strut on Bury Your Sorrow], and this is no surprise considering their working together, that’s Wylde
and Osbourne, and Wylde’s tribute band Zakk Sabbath. But Black Label Society is
distinctive enough, and beyond its heavy metal tropes, with scorching guitar
solos and effects to modernise. All That
Once Shined is grunged to much heavy sweetness and this leads in to the
first blackened croon of ballad The Only
Words which then leads to the Room of
Nightmares where heaviness reasserts itself. Just another note on the other
ballad The Day That Heaven Had Gone Away
– like the guitar work and vocal harmonies here. The whole album is like a basic
but hotly spiced stew with limoncello aperitif breaks.
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