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 comply with their 2021 launch, Doom Crew Inc., launched beneath MNRK Heavy.

Whereas reflecting on their present songwriting and recording periods, Zakk revealed: “We have been recording a batch of stuff whereas we’re residence. I imply, clearly it is gonna be plenty 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 nicely. So I would 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 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, you realize what? Let me put extra orange on that versus purple,’ the place you possibly can really sit again and have a look at it and every part like that. ‘Trigger normally, more often than not once I do the data, 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 when you ask any musician, they’re going to inform you, whenever you’re in a recording studio, it is only a breeding floor for inspiration. As a result of every part sounds good… Whether or not you are sitting with an acoustic guitar, otherwise you’re sitting behind a piano, otherwise you acquired the large distorted guitars going, the drums sound like cannons. So, every part simply sounds superb. 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.