{"id":314604,"date":"2025-11-26T10:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T10:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/314604\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T10:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T10:35:10","slug":"zakk-wyldes-best-albums-a-buyers-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/314604\/","title":{"rendered":"Zakk Wylde’s Best Albums: A Buyer’s Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of us know New Jersey native Zakk Wylde as Ozzy Osbourne<\/a>\u2019s former axeman, then as the force of nature behind badass heavy metallers Black Label Society, but his impressive and deceptively broad catalogue is one that demands proper examination.<\/p>\n

Born Jeffrey Phillip Wielandt in January 1967, Wylde\u2019s music career skyrocketed following a successful audition to replace lead guitarist Jake E Lee<\/a> in Ozzy\u2019s band. The story goes that a friend of a friend of Wylde, who at the time was playing on the local circuit with a Bon Jovi<\/a>-aping band called Zyris, managed to deliver his demo tape to Ozzy\u2019s people. When Sharon Osbourne called to arrange a meeting, Wylde assumed it was one of his buddies taking the piss.<\/p>\n

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While No Rest For The Wicked \u2013 Wylde\u2019s first album with Ozzy \u2013 introduced the guitarist to the world, it was 1991\u2019s blockbuster No More Tears<\/a> that cemented his status as one of the most influential and exhilarating players in rock.<\/p>\n

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As well as playing on further albums with Ozzy, Wylde released a record with the southern rock trio Pride & Glory, and the Book Of Shadows duology under his own name, but his bread is buttered elsewhere. That\u2019s Black Label Society.<\/p>\n

Wylde\u2019s band is one of the most uncompromising and consistently great metal bands of the century. He\u2019s a self-professed Black Sabbath<\/a> mega-fan, and you\u2019ll find plenty of that here. BLS have released 11 albums to date, and as says himself he\u2019s playing the music he loves.<\/p>\n

Add one of Wylde\u2019s signature bullseye guitars, along with his unmistakable kilt and leather battle jacket combo, and you have a Viking-looking guitar god ready to bring the noise. Yet looks can deceive.<\/p>\n

Wylde is a prodigiously talented musician, whether he\u2019s delivering hammerhead riffs, blinding solos, or perched behind a piano making us misty-eyed with his tender, plinking ballads about life and death.<\/p>\n

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On that note, not many will have been hit harder by Ozzy\u2019s passing. His first guitarist Randy Rhoads<\/a> has legendary status, but Wylde was Ozzy\u2019s mainstay and fellow hellraiser until the very end.<\/p>\n

At 58, Wylde is still willing to challenge himself. He\u2019s been involved with the reactivated Pantera<\/a> since 2022, taking up the formidable mantle of his late friend Dimebag Darrell<\/a>. And, as with Wylde\u2019s stellar Sabbath cover band, Zakk Sabbath, if anyone can pull it off with aplomb, it\u2019s him.<\/p>\n

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