BLACK LABEL SOCIETY guitarist Zakk Wylde is featured in a new interview with IHeartGuitarBlog.com. An excerpt is available below.

Q: Last time we chatted you were still building your studio. Now that it’s all done, what’s it like?

Zakk: "It’s killer, man. We test-drove the Black Label Bunker – we recorded the record in there and mixed it. I couldn’t be happier, man. Because the thing is, a lot of the time you could record in the studio but you want to mix somewhere else, but this just sounds great. We took it out of the bunker to mix it in another studio with a big SSL board and all that sort of stuff, and our studio sounded better. It’s one stop shoppin’, ya know what I mean? I can make the donuts in there, wrap ‘em, box ‘em and send ‘em out."

Q:Do you feel there’s an energy there that you couldn’t get if you were watching the clock all the time?

Zakk: "Um, well no, to be honest with you, I never watched the clock anyway when I was recording. Nah. The way we make a Black Label album, we go in and we knock ‘em right out. It’s just like, me and you going down to the studio today, we could hear ZEPPELIN on the radio, ‘Whole Lotta Love’ or something like that, and go ‘Dude, let’s do something like that, that pounding driving riff, then we’ll start with the drums, come in with the vocal,’ you know what I mean? It’s like, by the time we get to the studio, everyone’s just chilling and next thing you know we’ll start tracking. So I mean it’s like, if we want to do a mellow thing we’ll do something mellow. I’ve never had any problems recording anywhere. When we did a lot of the sessions for Hangover Music, we had about eight days off in the middle of Nashville so I was like, ‘Tim, just book us some studio time. We’ll go in and do a bunch of mellow stuff.’ Cos I’d been playing a bunch of acoustic guitar in the bus, as opposed to us doing the heavy stuff, because we were touring at the time. A lot of those sessions ended up on that record. The way I look at it, it’s just like when you’re going to any studio – Olympic, where all my favourite bands recorded, Abbey Road studios, Electric Lady Land, as soon as you get into the studio you’re just like a kid with a million crayons and you’ve got a massive colouring book. It’s always a good time, man."

Go to this location for the complete interview.

The tracklisting for Black Label Society's new album, Order Of The Black, is as follows:

'Crazy Horse'

'Overlord'

'Parade Of The Dead'

'Darkest Days'

'Black Sunday'

'Southern Dissolution'

'Time Waits For No One'

'Godspeed Hell Bound'

'War Of Heaven'

'Shallow Grave'

'Chupacabra'

'Riders Of The Damned'

'January'

A limited-edition version of the album featuring the bonus track 'Can't Find My Way Home' will be made available internationally. Order Of The Black will feature four different CD covers; one for each territory: North America, Europe, Australia and South America/Asia.