Bman's Blues Report

Zakk Wylde has today announced that a brand new BLACK LABEL SOCIETY studio album "Catacombs of the Black Vatican" will be released in Europe on April 7th 2014 via Mascot Label Group. Mascot Label Group are honoured to welcome the band to the label, having recently signed BLS exclusively for European territory. The band will join, amongst others, Joe Bonamassa , Volbeat , Gov't Mule, Beth Hart, Vandenberg’s MoonKings , Black Country Communion and Kenny Wayne Shepherd on the Rotterdam-based record company's roster. "Catacombs of the Black Vatican" is Black Label Society ’s first new studio album since 2009’s "The Order of the Black", which debuted at #4 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. Since their late nineties inception, Black Label Society , formed by guitar legend Zakk Wylde , has been at the forefront of their genre. Their taste for hard riffs and blazing solos has resulted in a slew of hugely successful albu...

I just received a copy of Leslie Wests new recording, Unusual Suspects. The release is well put together and has all the pyrotechnics expected from a Leslie West recording. I don't know how many of you have been keeping up with West's recent releases but his last 4 or 5 releases have been primarily blues recordings and really spectacular. West has a great voice for blues and of course then there's his guitar tone!! Alas no videos from these releases so I'm happy to be able to finally present you with some real footage!! This release is more rock in nature but still has the blues overtones and plenty of guitar to go around. Leslie West, Legendary guitarist and the founder of one of rocks most influential bands, Mountain, will release a brand new solo album, 'Unusual Suspects', on Monday September 19th. The album features West alongside a hand-picked line-up of the world's finest guitar players; including Slash, blues-rock guitarist Joe Bona...