BLACK LABEL SOCIETY Signs Australia/New Zealand Deal With RIOT! ENTERTAINMENT

March 30, 2010

Riot! Entertainment has announced the signing of BLACK LABEL SOCIETY for Australia and New Zealand.

Commented Riot! Entertainment owner/CEO John Howarth: "Riot's and my history with Zakk Wylde and BLACK LABEL SOCIETY goes way back to the beginning of BLACK LABEL SOCIETY's career. We have released every BLS album down here ever since, except for one.

"Zakk is like family and it's an honor to work with BLS again.

"We are really excited about the reports we are receiving and can't wait to hear the finished product.

"We are getting ready to fire up the machine and really push the new album over the top here in Australia. Zakk knows we will get down and dirty again to push this album.

"We are really looking forward to Zakk and the boys touring again here in 2011!"

Zakk Wylde added, "John and the Riot team have done the BLS camp proud Down Under.

"We're glad to be back with our Aussie brothers and sisters and look forward to tearing it up in Australia in early 2011."

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY's longtime drummer Craig Nunenmacher recently left the band and was replaced by veteran rock skinsman Will Hunt (EVANESCENCE, STATIC-X, DARK NEW DAY, TOMMY LEE, STUCK MOJO).

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY's as-yet-untitled studio album is due for release this summer via Roadrunner Records in Europe and E1 Music in North America.

With the new flexibility of having a studio literally outside his home, Wylde expects to deliver his best material yet.

"With the home studio I have this flexibility when inspiration hits to lay down new ideas at anytime — day or night — for re-recording later," he said. "This freshness should prove inspiring — and some of these first takes might even make it on the album," he enthused.

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY's last studio album, "Shot to Hell" (2006),sold just under 32,000 copies in the United States during its first week of release — less than the 45,000 copies shifted by BLS's "Mafia" (Artemis) back in March 2005 — to land at position No. 21 on The Billboard 200 chart.

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