Black Label Society - May 12, 2026 - 7:30pm
w/ Zakk Sabbath & Dark Chapel
Tickets go on sale this Friday, Nov 14 at 10am
The stomping, heavy, bluesy, recklessly unhinged hard-rock-metal quartet that is Black Label Society are part invading horde and part traveling carnival, summoning caffeine-fueled cacophony on records and the stage. BLS along with Zakk Sabbath & Dark Chapel turn the volume up in Salem Tuesday night, May 12. Tickets go on sale this Friday, November 14 at 10 AM at the Salem Civic Center Box Office and online at Ticketmaster.com.
A dedicated disciple of Zeppelin, Sabbath, and Deep Purple, Zakk Wylde looks to the massive guitar hooks in classics like “Whole Lotta Love,” “Into the Void,” and “Smoke On the Water” as guiding lights.
“The main ingredient in any Black Label soup is the riff,” says the larger-than-life frontman.
Black Label Society builds their music on this simple truth, truth as self-evident on Back in Black as on the dozen songs comprising Doom Crew Inc., the eleventh album from the dependable stalwarts. Doom Crew Inc. is both a tribute to the band’s “first to bleed, last to leave” road crew and a salute to the legion whose support, stretching back to 1998, rivals that of the KISS Army. The Black Label Society biker-style battle vest “kutte” is as ubiquitous at hard rock and metal shows as a black t-shirt.
A charismatic heavy metal marauder recognized worldwide as a living legend, Wylde rose to prominence when Ozzy Osbourne chose him as his loyal axe-man, based on a cassette he mailed in as a teen. Guitar World put him on their cover more than a dozen times in recognition of his work on multiplatinum albums by the icon he calls “the Boss” and the two decades of music made by BLS.
The beautiful simplicity of BLS bangers owe everything to the lessons Wylde first heard on We Sold Our Soul for Rock N’ Roll. “Less is more with everything,” he says. “Except the guitar solos.”
Black Label Society with Zakk Sabbath & Dark Chapel
May 12, 2026
$33.75, $43.75, $53.75, $63.75, & $73.75
Preferred Parking $10.00
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