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Zakk Wylde cups his hand to his ear as he asks the crowd for more during a 2026 Black Label Society performance.
“Look at AC/DC. Whatever was popular, it didn’t matter. It’s like McDonald’s. ‘We make the Big Mac and we make fries and we don’t care about doing sushi’”: Zakk Wylde on musical identity, jailhouse rocking with Ozzy and the return of Black Label Society

By Jonathan Horsley Published

The maestro of the pinched harmonic and pentatonic blitzkrieg sits in to talk Engines Of Demolition, Randy Rhoads' greatness, and the origin of his style

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Zakk Wylde [left] plays a lightning blue electric guitar live on the Pantera tribute tour. Randy Rhoads [right] plays his iconic polka-dot V.
“Without Ozzy as a foil, Randy would have never been able to do it": Zakk Wylde's favourite Randy Rhoads solo

By Jonathan Horsley Published

Plucked from Quiet Riot, Rhoads was the transfusion of virtuosity Ozzy needed to launch his solo career. But Wylde says it goes both ways, and the Prince Of Darkness was the "perfect foil" for Rhoads' classically trained style

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Ozzy Osbourne and Zakk Wylde shirtless onstage in 1989, with Wylde playing his Gibson Les Paul Custom Grail
Why Zakk Wylde brought his “Grail” Les Paul Custom out of retirement for Ozzy Osbourne tribute song

By Jonathan Horsley Published

The iconic cream Les Paul Custom with the bulls-eye graphic completed a full circle moment as Wylde salutes his old boss on new Black Label Society album

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Zakk Wylde [right], Phil Anselmo and Rex Brown perform as Pantera during their 2023 reunion/tribute tour honouring late members, Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul
“You never know”: Zakk Wylde says its possible that the Pantera tribute lineup could record music together

By Jonathan Horsley Published

The Black Label Society frontman/guitarist says "never say never" – but if they did it might end up like the Eagles

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Ozzy Osbourne and Zakk Wylde tear it up onstage in 1989. Ozzy is shirtless. Wylde his shirtless, too – and he plays his bullseye graphic Les Paul.
“That actually came from me and Oz jamming on the piano in my apartment in North Hollywood”: From Ozzy Osbourne to Papa Roach, Fleetwood Mac to George Harrison, here's 5 career-defining songs you didn’t know were written on the piano

By Daryl Robertson Published

We take a deep dive into classic guitar-driven songs that actually started life on the piano

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Ozzy and Zakk
“I figured we’d see him later on. But no”: Zakk Wylde reflects on the last time he saw Ozzy Osbourne

By Will Simpson Published

He says metal icon was “like an older brother”

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Ozzy Osbourne and Zakk Wylde tear it up onstage in 1989. Ozzy is shirtless. Wylde his shirtless, too – and he plays his bullseye graphic Les Paul.
How a Mike Inez bassline kick-started Ozzy classic No More Tears – but he wasn't there to record it

By Jonathan Horsley Published

Ozzy's top-tier guitarists get all the glory but on No More Tears you've got to give the bass player his dues. Make that bass players, plural

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Ozzy Osbourne and Zakk Wylde onstage in 1989. Both shirtless, Wylde takes a drink as he holds his bulleseye Les Paul Custom.
“We were doing that riff and cracking up laughing the whole time”: Zakk Wylde on how a “joke” riff won Ozzy Osbourne his first ever Grammy

By Jonathan Horsley Published

The No More Tears sessions found the Ozzy camp in high spirits and ready to lay down a record that would take the Prince of Darkness' solo career to new heights

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Zakk Wylde on stage with Pantera
Zakk Wylde says the current Pantera line-up may record new music from Dimebag’s old demos

By Paul Elliott Published

Wylde reveals that Dimebag left behind “tons of cassettes”

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Wylde Audio Berzerker: the new outlandish made-for-metal guitar designed for Zakk Wylde
Paging all “shred warriors,” Wylde Audio’s Berzerker takes the shape of metal guitar to new extremes

By Jonathan Horsley Published

OMG... Or should that be EMG. Wylde's new Berzerker is a shape and a half...

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