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On September 24th, Unblackened, the new live DVD, Blu-ray, and Digital Video from BLACK LABEL SOCIETY, will be released on September 24th via Eagle Rock Entertainment. Additionally, Zakk Wylde‘s label home, eOne Music, will release the audio version of Unblackened under the same name.

Wylde recently talked about the release with Billboard.com:

Wylde: “It’s not me just sitting around with an acoustic (guitar) or whatever, playing real quiet and pretty. This stuff is intense, too. And I’m playing piano. There’s some electric slide guitar. There’s a bunch of Marshalls for some of the choruses. It’s just another way to hear Black Label Society, y’know?”

Unblackened captures Wylde and company mostly live at Club Nokia in Los Angeles, but it also has six new studio recordings — including a cover of Bill Withers’ ‘Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone’ and ‘Song For You’ and new versions of the BLS tracks ‘Queen of Sorrow’, ‘Won’t Find It Here’ and ‘Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow’ — recorded with a string section.

Wylde. “That was an adventure. We had these four guys come down — union guys, right? They play two hours to the dot, then take a break and stay for one more hour — and we put the sheet music in front of them and we start playing and dude, it was right up there as far as disasters go with the fuckin’ Hindenberg, the fuckin’ Titanic, the fuckin’ Michael Dukakis running for president. We were laughing our fuckin’ balls off. (The string players) were like ‘We can stay an extra hour,’ and I go, ‘An extra HOUR! Are you out of your fuckin’ minds?! You’re gonna have to stay here for an extra fuckin’ two months!’ But they really wanted to do, so we worked it out.”

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Listen to the album, streaming in it’s entirety, at this location (restricted in some regions).

The band previously released a video for their cover of the classic BILL WITHERS song ‘Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone’, one of two covers on Unblackened.

Directed by Justin Reich, the video portrays Wylde’s widely known sense of humor.

A special one night only Unblackened performance by Zakk Wylde and Black Label Society at Club Nokia in Los Angeles on March 6th, 2013. This limited deluxe box set is the best way for you to experience and commemorate this special evening. It includes:

– Double CD containing the live performance from the show and six studio tracks
– DVD of entire show
– Custom pewter dagger necklace, the same that Zakk wears
– Extended photo book with live shots from the show
– One of a kind custom packaging

DVD tracklisting:

‘Losin’ Your Mind’
‘The Blessed Hellride’
‘Sold My Soul’
‘Road Back Home’
‘Spoke In The Wheel’
‘House Of Doom’
‘Queen Of Sorrow’
‘Machine Gun Man’
‘Sweet Jesus’
‘In This River’
‘Throwin’ It All Away’
‘Takillya (Estyabon)’
‘Won’t Find It Here’
‘Rust’
‘Speedball’
‘I Thank You Child’
‘Stillborn’

CD tracklisting:

Disc 1
‘Losin’ Your Mind’
‘The Blessed Hellride’
‘Sold My Soul’
‘Road Back Home’
‘Spoke In the Wheel’
‘House Of Doom’
‘Queen Of Sorrow’
‘Machine Gun Man’
‘Sweet Jesus’
‘In This River’
‘Throwin’ It All Away’

Disc 2
‘Takillya (Estyabon)’
‘Won’t Find It Here’
‘Rust’
‘Speedball’
‘I Thank You Child’
‘Stillborn’
‘Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone’ (cover)
‘Lovin’ Woman’
‘Queen Of Sorrow’ (unplugged)
‘Song For You’ (cover)
‘Won’t Find It Here’ (unplugged)
‘Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow’