Grimmest Hits

Led by longtime Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Zakk Wylde\'s searing six-string pyrotechnics and soulful vocals, Black Label Society play groove-laden rock with a deep melodic undercurrent. On their 10th album, the band delivers brawny swamp riffs (\"Trampled Down Below,\" \"Seasons of Falter\") and huge power grooves (\"A Love Unreal,\" \"Room of Nightmares\") alongside wistful guitar ballads (\"The Only Words,\" \"The Day That Heaven Had Gone Away,\" and \"Nothing Left to Say\") and the bluesy slow burn of \"All That Once Shined.\"

Grimmest Hits, the band’s tenth full-length studio album and follow-up to Billboard Top 5 entries Catacombs of the Black Vatican (2014) and Order of the Black (2010), Black Label Society submit new anthems like radio single “Room of Nightmares,” the bluesy “Seasons of Falter,” and Southern-fried “The Day That Heaven Had Gone Away” to the BLS faithful; 12 unstoppable tracks to add to that lifestyle soundtrack.

The Zakk Wylde-led, heavy riffage machine's tenth full-length, and the follow-up to 2014's well-received Catacombs of the Black Vatican, Grimmest Hits is not the cherry-picked best-of that its winking title would suggest.

Zakk Wylde has entered a unique phase in his venerated career. Of late, he has been running about with his tribute band, ZAKK SABBATH. After dropping 2016's compelling "Book of Shadows" sequel album, Wylde is set to rejoin his patron papa bear on the road. Ozzy Osbourne, who recently completed a boo...

Black Label Society - Grimmest Hits review: A contrast of white-knuckled excitement and tedium.