Credit: Justin ReichBlack Label Society will fire it up again this spring.
As frontman Zakk Wylde tells Billboard, he plans to start writing a new Black Label record, the follow-up to 2018’s Grimmest Hits, in April.
“[In] May and June, we’ll [record] and have that one ready to roll,” Wylde says. “I don’t demo or stockpile s***. Never have. I’m not like Prince, where he’s recording stuff all the time. I just like to come up with a riff or an idea and be like, ‘Why don’t we track that one today?’ It’s like the beginning of a new season. It’s always fun.”
Wylde, who’s also the lead guitarist in Ozzy Osbourne‘s live band, will have some unexpected free time to work on the album, since The Prince of Darkness postponed his North American tour due to his ongoing recovery from a variety of health issues.
“If it was up to Ozzy, we [would have been] doing shows six months ago. He wants to go,” Wylde says. “He’s like, ‘F***, this sucks. I can still do it. The last tour was so good!'”
“I’m just like, ‘You’ll know when you’re ready. No one’s going away, dude. You’ll know when you’re ready. It’s just a matter of time.'”
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