Ep544: Zakk Wylde - Ozzy's Final Chapter, Pantera's Future, and Black Label Society
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Zakk Wylde opens up about Ozzy's final show, the 17 days that followed, Dimebag's unfinished recordings, and the making of Black Label Society's crushing new album Engines of Demolition.
Topics Include:
- Zakk runs on 14 pots of Valhalla coffee every single day.
- He was invited to Back to the Beginning well in advance.
- Tony Iommi, Jimmy Page, and Ritchie Blackmore are mythical heroes to Zakk.
- No More Tears was rehearsed but Ozzy pulled it on the day.
- Ozzy was giddy meeting Axl Rose — couldn't believe it was happening.
- Zakk watched Sabbath's final set alongside Axl Rose and Sharon Osbourne.
- Just 17 days after the show, Ozzy passed away unexpectedly.
- They'd been texting memes and planning another record together right until the end.
- Zakk envisioned a global Back to the Beginning charity tour series.
- A sober Zakk and Ozzy watched their blasted crew destroy a Tokyo restaurant.
- Dimebag left hours of unfinished song ideas on tape for potential release.
- Playing Dime's solos means staying faithful — like Stevie Ray covering Hendrix.
- Zakk and Eddie Van Halen's amp, calling it life-altering history.
- Engines of Demolition was built across several years alongside the Pantera Celebration tour.
- Zakk confirms BLS, Zakk Sabbath, and more Pantera shows are all coming.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Vinyl Guide, the podcast for record collectors and music nerds. |
| 0:10.1 | Here's your host, the biggest record nerd of them all, Nate Goyer. |
| 0:13.5 | Well, hello, everyone. |
| 0:14.7 | It's Nate. |
| 0:15.8 | Welcome to episode 544 of the Vinyl Guide, the podcast for record collectors and music nerds. |
| 0:21.7 | So ladies and gentlemen, got another absolute legend on the show today, Mr. Zach Wilde, who had a few minutes. |
| 0:28.9 | We wanted to talk about his new Black Label Society album, so he called in from the tour bus. |
| 0:34.6 | We talked all about the new record, as well as caught up with all sorts of other |
| 0:39.5 | things going on in his life. We talked about Ozzy's final show. Of course, the 17 days that |
| 0:44.9 | followed before Ozzy's passing. We talked about dime bags unfinished riffs that are looking |
| 0:51.5 | to be assembled in a new Pantera record. |
| 0:58.1 | We talk about the making of Black Label Society's crushing new album, |
| 0:59.6 | Engines of Demolition. |
| 1:02.3 | Man, that is a fucking cracker of an album. |
| 1:05.9 | It's available now on streaming, so you can just dial it up right now. |
| 1:11.4 | And while you do that, you could march down to your local record shop and grab a copy on vinyl. |
| 1:16.6 | There's a bunch of killer design, splatters and swirls and all that kind of stuff. |
| 1:22.9 | So grab your favorite copy of engines of demolition, take it home, and play it loud. |
| 1:31.4 | And real quick, before we get into the conversation with Zach, a quick shout out to all our Patreon supporters at patreon.com slash vinyl guide. |
| 1:35.5 | And you may notice I'm not doing sponsorships anymore, no more commercials. |
| 1:41.1 | So if you want to show your love for this podcast, and we certainly hope you do, that's where you go. |
| 1:43.6 | Patreon.com slash vinyl guide. |
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