Ozzy Osbourne's lead guitarist for nearly two decades, Zakk Wylde slips the off the leash again to release his seventh album with his band, the Black Label Society, creating a weighty masterwork that stands muscled shoulder to muscled shoulder with anything his liege lord is putting out. But then, the slinger is responsible for co-writing some of Osbournes's most memorable tunes from No Rest For The Wicked, No More Tears and Ozzmosis. Mafia does sometimes feel like Wylde is still in search of the heavy metal grail, especially on the Sabbath-esque "Mr.
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