10 Hard Rock Bands That Made The Same Song Twice
3. Black Label Society - House Of Doom
House of Doom is not one of Black Label Society's greatest hits, but then, as the band's frontman Zakk Wylde says, "we don't have any hits".
Nonetheless, House of Doom is a classic slice of doom-troopin' hard rock, cut from the band's now-classic 2004 record Hangover Music Vol. VI (volumes I-V still pending). With a driven chorus, pinch harmonics galore and higher-range, doom metal vocals from Wylde, the track is the vintage Black Label sound in a tight, three-and-three-quarter-minute package.
Recently re-recorded as something of a slow-tempo ballad, the new House of Doom was included on The Song Remains Not the Same II, a 2021 album of covers and remakes exclusive to None More Black, the band's career-spanning, all-album boxset. This version features a full-band electric setup, minus the heavily distorted sound that characterises most of their work, taking the harder edge off the track and blending it into something that more closely resembles Wylde's acoustic-led solo records than Black Label's back catalogue.
The guitars are fuzzy, bluesy and sedate, the tempo is slower, and an electric organ gives the whole affair a pleasant sprinkling of the 1970s. And yet, there may have been better choices for the slow-n-steady treatment, as what were undoubtedly provocative hard rock lyrics at the time, like "Rape, rape me again", don't quite land at this pace.