Black Label Society - Mafia

Put on your best flannel, huff some gasoline and shove Black Label Society into your pick-up’s tape deck before you peel out of your parent’s driveway. It’s gonna be a good night. Alright, so this album is a little backwards, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun with it. Just don’t damage your brain in the process. Mafia sounds like what one might expect coming from a guy (Zakk Wylde) who played guitar for Ozzy Osbourne for years and years. Mr. Wylde even sings like Ozzy, eerily enough. Translation: Don’t expect any surprises here. The lyrical content is as consistent as the driving sound. Offered below are choice lyrics from each song to give you a better idea of the album’s focus: 1. “Hellfire, doom / Watch the hatred spin” 2. “Satan’s coming on his way” 3. “Crawl through the flames that eat your flesh” 4. “The floodgates of the damned / Shall crash and burn again” 5. “All shall fade to black again and again” 6. “No salvation and the grave is coming fast” 7. “Pray for war, pray for death, pray for hate” 8. Instrumental 9. “Hell is rolling, ‘round the bend” 10. “Insane and lost confusion” 11. “Electric hellfire / Higher, higher” 12. “Never return hell before heaven” 13. “The pain, the hate, the misery” 14. “Hell is so close and heavens so far” If any of the above topics pique your interest, Black Label Society’s Mafia may be an album for you. Even I found myself banging my head along, when caught in a certain hell-bent mindset. [www.blacklabelsociety.net]