BLACK LABEL SOCIETY mainman Zakk Wylde (ex-OZZY OSBOURNE) is currently working on the band's new album in his newly-constructed home studio just outside of Los Angeles, CA. Recording will continue throughout January/February with the hopes to being mixing the follow-up to 2006's Shot To Hell in April. The album is expected in June and as for a tour, Wylde says that "we'll be hittin' everywhere worldwide for well over a year."

In a recent interview with Ultimate-Guitar.com, Wylde explained his exit from the Ozzy camp: "Well, you know, I love Ozz and I’ve always got his back so whatever it is he wants to do. Without Ozzy, there’d be no Zakk Wylde; there’d be no Black Label. When Ozz would do the SABBATH stuff, he’d say, 'Guys, I’m going away for a while; I’m gonna be doing Sabbath.' This is back when Mike [Bordin] joined ALICE IN CHAINS and I started doing the P&G; stuff even before Black Label. He was like, 'Guys if anything comes up, you guys should do somethin’ because I don’t know how long I’ll be with the guys [Sabbath]. It could be a year or two years.'

Ozz has always been cool. Even when we did Down To Earth, Ozz was like, 'Zakk, I write these songs with all these other guys and I don’t want to fuckin’ rewrite a whole record. Can you just come in and wail on the fuckin’ songs and shit like that? And we’ll go out on the road.' And I said, 'Yeah, Ozz, no problem; whatever the fuck you want to do, man'."