{"id":16136,"date":"2016-07-06T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=16136"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:50:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:50:13","slug":"content-needed-album-review-zakk-wylde-book-of-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=16136","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Zakk Wylde – Book of Shadows II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zakk Wylde – Book of Shadows II<\/strong>
\n Release Date:<\/strong> April 8, 2016
\nLabel<\/strong>: EOne Music<\/p>\n

In 1996, when Zakk Wylde released his Book of Shadows<\/a><\/strong>\"\" album, I remember being absolutely floored by it.\u00a0 At this point in time, I had pretty much written off Zakk Wylde because I couldn’t stand his style of playing any more.\u00a0 Those god awful pinch harmonics just made it impossible for me to listen to but that aside, I was always a fan of his songwriting.\u00a0 I was already a fan of his Pride and Glory album from 1994 and after hearing Book of Shadows, I really hoped that this might be a new direction for Zakk.\u00a0 Well, it just wasn’t to be as after this album, he started Black Label Society and continued to make music that I couldn’t connect with.<\/p>\n

Over the years, I would find myself always gravitating back to that Book of Shadows album but the older I got, the less it seemed to stand the test of time as a whole.\u00a0 Don’t get me wrong.\u00a0 There are some fantastic songs on Book of Shadows such as\u00a0 “Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell”, “Dead as Yesterday”, and “Road Back Home” that are truly timeless but as a whole, the album just had me longing for more of that.\u00a0 I just knew that Zakk had it inside of him to pull these songs from but would we ever see it?\u00a0 \u00a0Well, 20 years later, my wish would be granted with the release of Book of Shadows II<\/a><\/strong>\"\".<\/p>\n