Shot to Hell is the seventh studio album by Black Label Society

Black Label Society

Black Label Society is a heavy metal band formed by Zakk Wylde, with nine studio albums, one live album, two compilation albums, one EP, and three video albums released since formation of the band.-Formation and Sonic Brew :...

. It was released September 12, 2006 and was the band's only record to have been released by Roadrunner Records

Roadrunner Records

Roadrunner Records is an American record label that concentrates primarily on heavy metal bands. It is currently a subsidiary of Warner Music Group.-History:...

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The cover art was originally the three nuns holding shotguns (as seen in the advertisements handed out at Ozzfest 2006), but the artwork was deemed inappropriate and was changed to three nuns playing a game of pool. The band's signature skull, featured on their logo, can be seen on the 8 ball on the table.

Track listing

All music and lyrics by Zakk Wylde

Zakk Wylde

Zachary Phillip Wylde , best known by the stage name Zakk Wylde, is an American musician, songwriter, and occasional actor who is best known as the former guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne and founder of the heavy metal band Black Label Society. He was the lead guitarist and vocalist in Pride & Glory,...

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1. "Concrete Jungle
   Concrete Jungle (song)
   "Concrete Jungle" is the first single from Black Label Society's 2006 album, Shot To Hell and also opens the album. It reached number 29 on Mainstream Rock radio as compiled by Billboard magazine....
   
   " - 3:24
2. "Black Mass Reverends" - 2:37
3. "Blacked Out World" - 3:16
4. "The Last Goodbye" - 4:04
5. "Give Yourself To Me" - 3:18
6. "Nothing's The Same" - 3:01
7. "Hell Is High" - 3:32
8. "New Religion" - 4:36
9. "Sick of it All" - 3:55
10. "Faith is Blind" - 3:36
11. "Blood is Thicker than Water" - 2:58
12. "Devil's Dime" - 2:16
13. "Lead Me to Your Door" - 3:33

Quotes and recording

"I never run out of ideas," Zakk says. "We just came in here and started knocking it out. That's how you make records." That take-no-prisoners attitude is all over such snarling tracks as "Concrete Jungle", "Blood Is Thicker Than Water" and "Give Yourself To Me", while reflective ballads like "Lead Me To Your Door" and "Sick Of It All" mix moody melodies with screaming guitar solos. "It's a real cool mix of heavy shit and mellow shit," Zakk explains.

During the recording of "Shot To Hell", Zakk and crew turned Ameraycan Studios in North Hollywood, CA into a cross between a Guitar Center and a teenage boy's bedroom. "We had a Mellotron in here, a Hammond B-3, a ton of Marshalls and just about every guitar I own," Zakk recalls. "It looked like 'Sanford and Son' out in the parking lot — a whole garage-sale going on with the equipment, you know? And we had pictures taped up on the walls of Randy Rhoads and Jimmy Page, just for inspiration, because you've still gotta listen to music with a fourteen-year-old's ears. Remembering when you were like, 'Dude, we're going to see ZEPPELIN this weekend!' — that's what it's all about, man. Because once you lose that, then you shouldn't be doing it anymore."

Personnel

• Zakk Wylde
  Zakk Wylde
  Zachary Phillip Wylde , best known by the stage name Zakk Wylde, is an American musician, songwriter, and occasional actor who is best known as the former guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne and founder of the heavy metal band Black Label Society. He was the lead guitarist and vocalist in Pride & Glory,...
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , vocals, talkbox, piano
  Piano
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  , keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  , mellotron
  Mellotron
  The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic tape replay keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. It superseded the Chamberlin Music Master, which was the world's first sample-playback keyboard intended for music...
  
  , organ
  Organ (music)
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• Nick Catanese
  Nick Catanese
  Nick Catanese is Black Label Society's second guitarist at live shows. He supports lead player Zakk Wylde, who has commented that "If I'm Keith Richards, he's Mick Taylor"...
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• John DeServio
  John DeServio
  John "JD" DeServio, is the current bass guitarist in Black Label Society, joining after the departure of James Lomenzo in 2005.JD was also a member of Pride & Glory, Wylde's southern rock trio for a short time in December 1994 , and was also Black Label Society's original bass guitarist, playing on...
  
   – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Craig Nunenmacher
  Craig Nunenmacher
  Craig "Louisiana Lightning" Nunenmacher is best known as the former drummer for Black Label Society and Crowbar. He joined Black Label Society in July 2000 while playing for Crowbar, who were touring with BLS at the time...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
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Production

• Produced
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
   by Zakk Wylde
• Executive producer
  Executive producer
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   – Michael Beinhorn
  Michael Beinhorn
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• Associate producers and engineers
  Audio engineering
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   – Barry Conley, David Allen
• Mixed
  Audio mixing (recorded music)
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   by Randy Staub
  Randy Staub
  Randy Staub is a Canadian recording engineer. He has been nominated for the Juno Awards' "Recording Engineer of the Year" award nine times. He won in 2002 for the songs "How You Remind Me" and "Too Bad" by Nickelback. Staub also mixed Alice in Chains' fourth studio album, Black Gives Way to...
  
  , except "Faith Is Blind", mixed by Dave Allen
• Mastered
  Audio mastering
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   by Ted Jensen
  Ted Jensen
  Ted Jensen is an American recording engineer. Jensen is the chief mastering engineer at Sterling Sound. He started his career as a mastering engineer in 1976 and is currently the most active Mastering Engineer in the industry...
  
  

• Artwork concept – Zakk and Barbaranne Wylde
• Artwork production – Barbaranne Wylde
• Artwork photography – Neil Zlozower
• Artwork design and layout – Rob "RA" Arvizuae
• Artwork casting – Deborah German Casting
• Wardrobe – Bobbie Mannix
• Makeup – Ralis Kahn
• Nuns – Pat McNeely, Mary Lou Secor, Nan Taylor
• Devils – Frank Bettag, David Case, Richard Summers
• Management – Bob Ringe (Survival Management)
• Assistant management – Barbaranne Wylde
• Founding Father (A&R) – Mike Gitter

Album

Year	Chart	Position
2006	The Billboard 200	21
2006	Top Internet Albums	18

Singles

Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
2006	"Concrete Jungle"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	29
2007	"Blood is Thicker than Water"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	31