Watch The Newest Clip From Zakk Wylde’s Black Label Society

Although the metal-tastic imagery is pretty on-point – it's all overcast tones and black-and-white filters, with a sweet slow-motion close-up of a crow or some other similarly terrifying avian at the start – but musically, the song is in sum a jarring wuss-rock ballad that renders the ex-Ozzy Osbourne stringsmith's giant double-necked guitar pretty much entirely superfluous, if not for the one flash of headbang-worthy aesthetic in the form of a wailing solo about three-quarters of the way through the song.

Yes, somehow, this is the same band that was responsible for rough-hewn chug-a-thons such as Stillborn and Suicide Messiah, only everyone's sitting down now to gently croon about how rad they used to be while the piano player maintains he doesn't look that much like Conchita Wurst.

The video was directed by long-time BLS collaborator Justin Reich, of The Antimatter Studio, with the single serving as a point of accessibility for a wider market – the band recently made their network TV debut by performing the track on Late Night With Seth Meyers.

Even My Dying Time, Black Label Society's previous single from recently released ninth LP Catacombs Of The Black Vatican, at least tries to act like its jeans are torn and its hair unkempt; but if the greater album were a party, Angel Of Mercy would spend the entire time sobbing in a corner, desperately hoping for someone to notice it.

Which might explain the flashy guitar, come to think of it.