Order of the Black, by Black Label Society

Order of the Black

by Black Label Society

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DOOM Lots headbanging Doom rockers on this album. Mix/Master of Crazy Horse hits harder on the album than the single version. Favorite track: Overlord.

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1.	Crazy Horse 04:04	buy track
2.	Overlord 06:05	buy track
3.	Parade of the Dead 03:36	buy track
4.	Darkest Days 04:17	buy track
5.	Black Sunday 03:23	buy track
6.	Southern Dissolution 04:56	buy track
7.	Time Waits For No One 03:36	buy track
8.	Godspeed Hellbound 04:43	buy track
9.	War of Heaven 04:08	buy track
10.	Shallow Grave 03:37	buy track
11.	Chupacabra 00:49	buy track
12.	Riders of the Damned 03:23	buy track
13.	January 02:20	buy track

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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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