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Order of the Black

by Black Label Society

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Crazy Horse 04:04
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Overlord 06:05
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Darkest Days 04:17
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Black Sunday 03:23
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Chupacabra 00:49
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January 02:20

about

Order of the Black, the band’s eighth album, isn’t a radical departure from the band’s previous work –it’s simply a refinement. There are brutal riffs (“Crazy Horse”), Southern doom (“Southern Dissolution”), gentle contemplation (the piano ballads “Darkest Days” and “Time Waits for No One”) and epic thrash (“Godspeed Hellbound”). The album’s first single, “Parade of the Dead,” meanwhile, features some vintage shredding from Wylde (or, as one very satisfied Berzerker posted online, “It’s a bit Randy Rhoads-ian. I love it!”)...as well as one wicked, bad-ass groove.

While tracks like “Darkest Days” and “Shallow Grave” may portend a darker, more personal record, Wylde doesn’t necessarily see the album going one particular direction, be it heavier, moodier or lighter. “It’s just whatever the songs are,” says Wylde. “I hate bands who are like ‘This is our heaviest yet’...so it’s just picking and screaming now? Or, ‘this is the fastest guitar playing I’ve ever done.’ Then you’re listening to notes. My favorite artists –Zeppelin, Sabbath, Elton John –the whole thing is songs. Back in Black wasn’t the heaviest or most vulgar AC/DC album –it has the best songs.”

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released August 10, 2010

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