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CD: Black Label Society - Alcohol Fueled Brewtality Live +5	Released: 2001
Reviewed By: Dave Elder (FaceInTheSky)	Rating: (3/5)

After just 2 studio albums the guys, well, guy, in BLS thought it was about time to put out a live album. So this album pretty much has half of Stronger Than Death and half of Sonic Brew.

In true Black Label fashion there are lots of alcohol references in the CD booklet. The cover shows a bunch of skeletons at a bar (this album sounds like it was recorded at that bar!) drinking alcohol.

The album contains 18 tracks in total. Disc one has 13 live songs while disc 2 has 5 mostly acoustic tracks. I must say that this album sounds great for a live album and it even sounds better than both of the studio albums. There isn't any cheesy mixing the crowed up during parts of songs or even in-between the songs. You can hear people in-between the songs and even in lighter parts of the guitar solo, but it isn't something that is overpowering *coughLive Insurrectioncough*

For some unknown reason to me the band didn't include their 'hit' song, Counterfeit God, which did make me mad at first since that is my favorite song from the band. But they make up for it with some great performances of songs like "13 Years of Grief," "All For You," "Supperterrorizer," and they even do a GREAT 'cover' of Ozzy's "No More Tears" Which was a great surprise for me to hear on this album. The band really adds some balls to it and cut out the quiet middle part of the original. Plus I'd rather listen to Zakk sing than Ozzy sing.

One of the greatest parts of this album is during "Superterrorizer" the band stops and Zakk yells 'Limp Bizkit sucks dick!' Ha, I love that part. :) Also since the band like to drink they changed the song "Born to Lose" to "Born to Booze"

As for disc 2, the songs on here are studio songs done mostly acoustic and I think I enjoy this disc more than the live stuff. It has a cover of Neil Young's "Heart of Gold" along with "Snowblind" from Black Sabbath. People that know me know that I am not a fan of cover songs at all, but for some reason the ones on this album..I don't know, I just enjoy them a lot. I guess these guy's can just pick the right cover and make it their own.