Zakk Wylde has been on this planet for 59 years, and he’s been famous for nearly 40 of them. He rose to prominence in the late 80s as the fresh-faced teenage guitarist in Ozzy Osbourne’s band, and stood at the Double O’s side, on and off, until the former Black Sabbath frontman’s death last year.
Along the way, the man born Jeffrey Wielandt in New Jersey has launched the one-and-done southern rock band Pride And Glory and the more durable Black Label Society, whose new album, Engines Of Demolition, is their first in five years. In the past couple of years, he’s taken the place of the late Dimebag Darrell in the current version of Pantera, which he’s at pains to call a “Pantera celebration” rather than a full-blown reunion.
