| | Amazon.com: The Blessed Hellride: Music: Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | The Blessed Hellride finds former Ozzy Osbourne's guitarist and Black Label Society frontman Zakk Wylde playing all instruments bar the drums, yet retaining an intensity that Osbourne has sadly lacked for some years. |
 | | Combining the bludgeoning heaviness of Black Sabbath, the Southern flavor of the Allman Brothers, and the flashy pyrotechnics of Eddie Van Halen, Wylde delivers crushing riffs and head-spinning solos throughout such highlights as the grand "Blackened Waters," the stomping "Suffering Overdue," and "Stillborn," a pained lament for dead love that features Osbourne. |
 | | Granted, there are a couple curve balls thrown into the mix on "The Blessed Hellride"--the title track is the album's token acoustic ballad, and the last track is somewhat pretty because it is driven by a piano. |
| www.amazon.com /Blessed-Hellride-Wyldes-Label-Society/dp/B00008V600 (1487 words) |