Shot To Hell
*Shot to Hell* starts with “Concrete Jungle,” one of the catchiest and most successful songs of Zakk Wylde’s career. With its mix of guitar tones, a forward-moving groove, and a snarling blues-based refrain, “Concrete Jungle” feels like the song Wylde had been waiting his whole life to write. The rest of *Shot to Hell* is propelled by a similar energy and focus. “Black Mass Reverends,” “Blacked Out World,” and “Faith Is Blind” are swirling, heaving masses of heavy riffing in which Wylde’s guitar squeals and screams with inimitable bravura. At the same time, *Shot to Hell* returns Wylde to his early solo albums, on which he showed his rootsier, \'70s-oriented side. Aside from his lifelong devotion to metal, Wylde also appreciates such classic rock staples as Elton John, Neil Young, and Pink Floyd, influences that are prominent on piano-driven ballads like “Nothing’s the Same” and “The Last Goodbye.” With this album, Wylde went for the whole classic rock package: the naturalism, the aggression, and the grandeur.
Shot to Hell marks Black Label Society's debut for Roadrunner Records, following a six-year relationship with Spitfire summarized on the previous year's Kings of Damnation: Era 1998-2004 compilation.
Talk about a prolific writer! Guitar god Zakk Wylde kicks out albums like rabbits produce offspring. On BLACK LABEL SOCIETY's "Shot to Hell" (Zakk's eighth),the only real surprise is a more varied mix of material, that being the traditional Zakk hard ass riff-n-squeal rockers along with several mel...
That Zakk Wylde and his band Black Label Society has put out eight studio albums and one best-of compilation in just eight years is astounding in this day...