{"id":35902,"date":"2013-10-22T19:46:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T00:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=35902"},"modified":"2013-10-22T19:46:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T00:46:29","slug":"rocket-review-black-label-society-unblackened-2-cd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=35902","title":{"rendered":"ROCKET REVIEW: BLACK LABEL SOCIETY &#8211; &#8220;Unblackened&#8221; (2-CD)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zakkunblackened.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zakkunblackened-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Zakkunblackened\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-35903\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zakkunblackened.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zakkunblackened-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zakkunblackened-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tmdsite435x751lk-2-1.gif\" alt=\"TMD\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nBLACK LABEL SOCIETY led by mainman Zakk Wylde returns in 2013 with a double live album entitled Unblackened. It was recorded at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, and offers diehard fans BLS music from the past to present that essentially strips down their songs. That&#8217;s not to stay it is one of those boring all-acoustic albums neither, for it&#8217;s still got some goddamn electric shredding no doubt.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nZakk Wylde&#8217;s lead guitar playing is phenomenal all throughout and adds simply gut wrenching vocals on stellar performances for songs such as &#8220;Losin\u2019 Your Mind&#8221;, &#8220;Won\u2019t Find It Here&#8221;, and &#8220;The Blessed Hellride&#8221;. There is also some fantastic electric slide guitar. But I have to say my favorite is Zakk&#8217;s out of this world jamming on the track &#8220;Throwin&#8217; It All Away&#8221;.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nZakk continues to prove why is he is hands down the best all around guitar player going today. Absolutely blistering fretwork is all he knows and that&#8217;s all he delivers here. Are you cool with that? Old and new fans will be floored at just how gutsy Zakk&#8217;s peformance is and how he continues to reinvent the BLS sound and make it even more appealing to a wider audience. Bravo, brother. This was a ballsy move but it delivers big time for this reviewer. I dare anyone of any musical persuasion to listen to these songs and not be impressed by the high level of musicianship.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/RocketREDBLACKwithLOGOEND-257x300.jpg\" alt=\"Rocket rules\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rocKETlogo201210-300x71.gif\" alt=\"TMD\" \/><\/p>\n<p><big><br \/>\n<strong>ROCKET REVIEW:<br \/>\n[starreview tpl=16]<br \/>\nBLACK LABEL SOCIETY &#8211; &#8220;Unblackened&#8221; (CD)<\/strong><small><br \/>\n<em>(eOne music\/2013)<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\nCD1:<br \/>\n01 \u2013 Losin\u2019 Your Mind<br \/>\n02 \u2013 The Blessed Hellride<br \/>\n03 \u2013 Sold My Soul<br \/>\n04 \u2013 Road Back Home<br \/>\n05 \u2013 Spoke in the Wheel<br \/>\n06 \u2013 House of Doom<br \/>\n07 \u2013 Queen of Sorrow<br \/>\n08 \u2013 Machine Gun Man<br \/>\n09 \u2013 Sweet Jesus<br \/>\n10 \u2013 In This River<br \/>\n11 \u2013 Throwin\u2019 it all Away<br \/>\n<br \/>\nCD2:<br \/>\n01 \u2013 Takillya (Estyabon)<br \/>\n02 \u2013 Won\u2019t Find It Here<br \/>\n03 \u2013 Rust<br \/>\n04 \u2013 Speedball<br \/>\n05 \u2013 I Thank You Child<br \/>\n06 \u2013 Stillborn<br \/>\n07 \u2013 Ain\u2019t No Sunshine When She\u2019s Gone<br \/>\n08 \u2013 Lovin\u2019 Woman<br \/>\n09 \u2013 Queen of Sorrow (Unplugged)<br \/>\n10 \u2013 Song For You<br \/>\n11 \u2013 Won\u2019t Find It Here (Unplugged)<br \/>\n12 \u2013 Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blacklabelsociety.com\/home\/\">http:\/\/blacklabelsociety.com\/home\/<\/a><br \/>\n<\/small><\/big><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLACK LABEL SOCIETY led by mainman Zakk Wylde returns in 2013 with a double live&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metal-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}