ZAKK WYLDE Says BLACK LABEL SOCIETY’s Subsequent Album Might 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 can comply with 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 house. I imply, clearly it is gonna be loads of — we’re gonna be doing a Pantera celebration tour all through 2025, after which there’s going to be Zakk Sabbath reveals peppered in there as effectively. So I might think about someplace — I do not know — possibly 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 artistic course of. “All it does to me, it simply offers you extra time to simply preserve 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 every little thing like that. ‘Trigger often, more often than not after I do the information, I will 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 believe in case you ask any musician, they’re going to inform you, once you’re in a recording studio, it is only a breeding floor for inspiration. As a result of every little thing sounds good… Whether or not you are sitting with an acoustic guitar, otherwise you’re sitting behind a piano, otherwise you acquired the massive distorted guitars going, the drums sound like cannons. So, every little thing simply sounds wonderful. And it simply may be very inspiring.”

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