ZAKK WYLDE Says BLACK LABEL SOCIETY’s Subsequent Album May Probably Arrive In Late 2025

In a latest sit-down with Lipps Service With Scott Lipps, Zakk Wylde shared insights into Black Label Society‘s upcoming twelfth studio album, which is able to observe their 2021 launch, Doom Crew Inc., launched underneath MNRK Heavy.

Whereas reflecting on their present songwriting and recording periods, Zakk revealed: “We have been recording a batch of stuff whereas we’re dwelling. I imply, clearly it is gonna be a number of — we’re gonna be doing a Pantera celebration tour all through 2025, after which there’s going to be Zakk Sabbath exhibits peppered in there as effectively. So I might think about someplace — I do not know — perhaps late 2025, early ’26, or no matter, placing out one other Black Label album.

Wylde expressed how the prolonged timeline permits for a extra reflective inventive course of. “All it does to me, it simply provides you extra time to simply hold writing and listening to stuff and going again and going, ‘No, what? Let me put extra orange on that versus purple,’ the place you may truly sit again and take a look at it and all the things like that. ‘Trigger normally, more often than not once I do the information, I am going to go in, whether or not it was Stillborn, Suicide Messiah, something like that, with nothing.”

For Wylde, recording periods are fertile floor for inspiration. As he describes: “I feel in the event you ask any musician, they will inform you, whenever you’re in a recording studio, it is only a breeding floor for inspiration. As a result of all the things sounds good… Whether or not you are sitting with an acoustic guitar, otherwise you’re sitting behind a piano, otherwise you obtained the massive distorted guitars going, the drums sound like cannons. So, all the things simply sounds wonderful. And it simply could be very inspiring.”

We obtained a style of Black Label Society’s evolving sound with their latest single, “The Gallows,” which was launched final September.