Twenty-eight years into a career built on unapologetic heaviness, Black Label Society brings the American Crusade tour to Palace Theatre on Tuesday, August 25. It is the kind of booking that rewards patience: a band that fills amphitheaters playing one of Albany’s most storied rooms — 2,807 seats of John Eberson’s 1931 Austrian Baroque masterwork, where the ornate plasterwork and the grand brass chandelier will have to coexist, for one night, with Zakk Wylde’s wall-of-Marshall assault.
About Black Label Society
Founded in 1998 by Wylde — then best known as Ozzy Osbourne’s six-string architect — BLS has spent more than a quarter century carving out a lane that resists easy categorization: too blues-drenched for pure metal, too heavy for classic rock radio, too idiosyncratic to be anything but itself. The current lineup — Wylde on vocals, guitar, and piano; John DeServio on bass; Jeff Fabb on drums; and Dario Lorina on second guitar — has been intact long enough to function as a genuine band rather than a vehicle for one man’s guitar heroics.
Engines of Demolition, the twelfth studio album released on MNRK Heavy in March 2026, anchors the tour. BLS has never trafficked in reinvention, and this record doesn’t attempt one. What it does demonstrate is that Wylde’s playing remains a serious instrument and that the band’s capacity for both crushing riffs and genuine melodic weight hasn’t softened with repetition.
The bill carries an unusual internal logic: Zakk Sabbath — Wylde’s Black Sabbath tribute project, featuring DeServio and Fabb performing double duty — opens the evening, while Dark Chapel, the riff-heavy act fronted by Lorina, rounds out the bottom of the card. Essentially every performer on stage will be a current or closely associated BLS member, which makes for a coherent if deliberately insular night of heavy music.
About Palace Theatre
The Palace opened in October 1931 as an RKO movie palace and was, at the time, the third-largest movie theatre in the world. John Eberson designed it in his Austrian Baroque atmospheric style, and the room has carried National Register of Historic Places status since 1979. At 2,807 seats — 1,505 orchestra, 1,302 balcony — it is not a small room, but it is a theater, not a shed, and for a show like this that distinction matters: the sound will be focused, the sightlines clean, and Wylde’s guitar will land the way it was meant to.
Tickets & Pricing
General on-sale for the Albany date began April 24, 2026. Tickets are available via Ticketmaster. Showtime is 7:30 PM.