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Black Label SocietyHangover Music Vol. VI Spitfire/Riot I can't say that Black Label Society has grabbed my attention in the past, bar for the odd song here or there. So it was with a great deal of curiosity and a little trepidation that I first listened to 'Hangover Music'. My first impression was how apt the title turned out to be (I was perhaps expecting ironically a very loud and raucous album); however, all of the 15 songs are at least acoustically driven if not just downright mellow, sharing a great deal more with Zakk Wylde's 1996 solo album 'Book Of Shadows' than anything Black Label Society has done to date. As it turns out this is, in fact, hangover music. Music for the sort of hangover that can only properly be induced by a night of drinking whisky straight from the bottle. There's a surprisingly good album here; not just good songs, but the sort of CD you can listen to all the way through, from the gloomy Steppin Stone to the catchy single House Of Doom, from the touching Layne (about deceased Alice In Chains frontman Layne Staley), to Wylde doing his best Joe Cocker impersonation on a solo piano version of Procol Harum's classic Whiter Shade Of Pale. And for all you guitarists out there - never fear, the shreds are still here. In fact, they're surprisingly frequent for such a mellow album, including a nice bit of acoustic work in the intro to Takillya and some heavy outro work on Fear to end the album.  |
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