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Mafia by Black Label Society
Mafia is an album by Black Label Society, released in 2005. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 6 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Suicide Messiah”, on 2 lists with a best position of #36.
Mafia, the sixth studio album from Black Label Society, hit the racks on Artemis on March 8, 2005, with Zakk Wylde not only singing and playing guitar but sitting in the producer's chair too. The band he'd formed in Los Angeles in 1998 was a proper gang by now: Nick Catanese on guitar and backing vocals, James LoMenzo on bass, Craig Nunenmacher behind the kit.
The sound is what the faithful came for: riffs like steel girders and Wylde's bellow cutting through the sludge on "Suicide Messiah" and "Fire It Up". The emotional core, though, is "In This River", which Wylde wrote before he lost his friend and fellow guitarist Dimebag Darrell, and which has been dedicated to him ever since. It became one of the band's biggest sellers, shifting over 250,000 copies in America and reaching 15 on the Billboard album chart.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Mafia on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Suicide Messiah | 2 | #36 | – | 2005 | |
| 2 | In This River | 2 | #27 | – | 2005 | |
| 3 | Fire It Up | 2 | #52 | – | 2005 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.