Black Label Bash featuring Black Label Society with special guests Sevendust

Tickets go on-sale Friday, Jan. 16, at noon. Tickets available at the Verizon Wireless Arena Box Office, charge by phone at (603) 868-7300 and on-line at www.livenation.com Tickets are $29.50, general admission floor and reserved seating, all ages.

Heavy metal band Black Label Society is currently touring Europe, but the rockers have announced plans to bring the party back to North America for an early spring trek. More than 20 dates have been confirmed for the Black Label Bash, including an April 9 stop at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, NH.

The Black Label Bash will be the band's first run of North America since the completion of its 2006-2007 world tour.

The band's last studio effort, "Shot to Hell," was released in 2006 and peaked at No. 21 on the Billboard 200. According to the band's tour announcement, a greatest hits record is in the works for 2009, making March the right time to begin touring. "The time felt good to get back on the bus with the guys back home," leader Zakk Wylde is quoted.

Zakk Wylde was Ozzy Osbourne's guitarist from 1987-1994/95 and from 2001 to present. During the 6 year gap from 1995-2001, Zakk created several other side projects, a southern rock band called Pride & Glory (1994), his own solo acoustic album entitled Book of Shadows (1996), and formed Black Label Society in 1998.

www.blacklabelsociety.com

More than a decade has passed from the moment Sevendust first got together under the name Crawlspace and bonded on their mutual love for heavy music and strong melodies. Three gold records, countless tour dates and seven albums later, the band has funneled all of its collective experience and musical acumen into Sevendust VII: Hope and Sorrow. From the surging guitars and stomping beats of “Enough” to the “haunting strumming and harrowing howls of “Lifeless,” from the staggered riff and marching beat of “Fear” to the yearning vocals and euphoric guitar chords of “Walk Away,” Sevendust have created a record that’s difficult to categorize and impossible to ignore.

There’s no question that Sevendust VII: Hope and Sorrow is one of the band’s strongest and most musically diverse albums to date. Sevendust have always explored various shades of darkness and light, but on the new disc they delve into a new spectrum of vivid colors. “Inside” is mechanized and furious, incorporating industrial samples into framework of chugging guitars, slamming beats and scathing vocals before taking flight with one of vocalist Lajon Witherspoon’s signature choruses. “Hope” intertwines melancholy piano, sparse, repeating guitar swells, heart-rending strings, and soul-searing vocals between volleys of scream-infested animosity. And “Prodigal Son” is a gorgeous string-laden blend of atmosphere and melody that’s custom-made for rock radio, but unlike anything else on the air.

As of January 1st 2009, Sevendust is gearing up to hit the road with Disturbed and continues to write the 8th studio album, due out in late 2009/early 2010.

www.sevendust.com