{"id":348261,"date":"2026-03-26T04:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T04:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/348261\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T04:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T04:47:09","slug":"black-label-societys-new-album-to-offer-a-limited-digital-bonus-track-that-you-could-miss-out-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/348261\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Label Society\u2019s New Album To Offer A Limited Digital Bonus Track That You Could Miss Out On"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems like we\u2019ve got another somewhat anti-consumer thing that people have to consider when buying anything they enjoy, as Black Label Society<\/a> becomes another band with an anticipated album that\u2019s offering a limited digital bonus track. You may recall that Lamb Of God did this with Into Oblivion and the bonus track \u201cWire\u201d earlier this month and it\u2019s looking like BLS\u2019 Engines Of Demolition will follow suit.<\/p>\n

According to the band, the digital deluxe edition of the forthcoming album will feature two exclusive tracks: \u201cBroken Pieces (Unblackened)\u201d and \u201cBack To Me (Unblackened)\u201d. The catch, however, is that the digital deluxe edition is only available for pre-order until midnight tomorrow. After that, you\u2019re shit outta luck.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s very similar to the situation with Lamb Of God\u2019s Into Oblivion, which confused fans so much that the band had to issue a statement<\/a> explaining what was going on with the bonus track.<\/p>\n

With this Black Label Society release, fans are vacillating between frustration, anger, and confusion over the bonus track situation. Some are complaining that they only buy physical media so they were screwed from the start, while othesssady preordered the standard edition because it was the only one available at the time feel like they were duped. It\u2019s not a good look, really.<\/p>\n

For the longest time, bonus tracks were used as a way to incentivize people to buy the physical version. Now, it\u2019s just an attempt for bands and record labels to tap into consumers\u2019 sense of FOMO and pushing them into preordering a more expensive version of the album.<\/p>\n

And though Black Label Society is also offering some cool physical versions of the album, including a limited edition vinyl that includes even more unique bonus tracks in \u201cName In Blood (Unblackened)\u201d and \u201cLord Humungus (Unblackened)\u201d, it might have soured some people to the entire situation.<\/p>\n

In a time when people are getting pinched financially, it\u2019s totally reasonable to see why people would be frustrated by this whole ordeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It seems like we\u2019ve got another somewhat anti-consumer thing that people have to consider when buying anything they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[185033,156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-348261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-black-label-society","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}