Riot Entertainment has announced the signing of BLACK LABEL SOCIETY to its roster for Australia and New Zealand. Riot Entertainment Owner/CEO John Howarth stated: “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 honour 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."

In the two decades since OZZY OSBOURNE hired him away from his job at a New Jersey gas station to become his new guitarist, Zakk Wylde has established himself as a guitar icon known and revered the world over. Writing and recording with Osbourne led to multi-platinum success, inspiring him to create the now legendary Black Label Society in 1998. In the decade plus since, BLS has turned the notion of what a rock band should be upside down by inspiring legions of fans (known as Berserkers) all over the world to follow the mantra: Strength, Determination, Merciless, Forever (SDMF for short).

Wylde and BLS have a busy few months ahead of them as they will soon head into the studio to record the first new Black Label Society album in three years. The band will be holed-up in Wylde’s newly-constructed state-of-the-art home studio. Veteran drummer Will Hunt has signed on for the new album and upcoming tour around the release of the new Black Label Society album, due out in summer 2010.