Zach Bryan explores heartbreak, sobriety in 'With Heaven On Top'

Zach Bryan has released an acoustic version of his new album With Heaven On Top amid his main project’s debut.

The 29-year-old's sixth studio album arrived on Friday, January 9. This follows the fully acoustic rendition of the entire album, three days later.

The recent release includes over 25 songs, reflecting the star's journey of heartbreak, his new marriage to Samantha Leonard, and substance abuse following sobriety.

On the track Skin, Bryan seemingly references an ex, singing, “I’m taking a blade to my own skin/And I ain’t ever touching yours again,” and asking, “Do you love people just to win when it’s over?”

He also adds, “Do you still talk s--- on all of your friends?/Need to take it all to the chin this time stone-cold sober.”

Fans purport that the song points to Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia, whom Bryan separated from in October 2024.

Notably, LaPaglia later accused him of emotional abuse and even claimed that he offered her $12 million and a house to stay silent. 

However, Bryan has not publicly addressed the allegations.

On another track, Plastic Cigarette, he sings about meeting someone “evil” in Queens, where the former couple first met, “My brother had told me to leave but I didn’t believe the evil beneath some people you meet out in Queens.”

In contrast, Bryan celebrated Leonard, whom he married in Spain on New Year’s Eve, marking occasions with his wife.

In one song, Slicked Back, he sings, “When I get to hell or heaven, can I bring my girl?” and praises her love of “romance, good s**, music and ruling the world.”

He also shared conflicting thoughts on sobriety and fatherhood on Appetite, he sings, “Everyone I know got older/Told my drunk ass to get sober,” adding, “What if I don’t want children that grow up like their father?”

With Heaven on Top was written and produced by Bryan in Tulsa, Oklahoma.