Metal Insider’s Top 5: Live Albums

Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. At its best, the live album is a more intense version of a greatest hits album. In a perfect world, the band is firing on all cylinders, carefully choosing the ebb and flow...

Metal Insider’s Top 5: Riffs And Solos By Randy Rhoads

Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. On this day in 1982, guitarist Randy Rhoads died in a plane crash. By the age of 25, Rhoads had made an enormous impact in heavy metal, having helped transform Ozzy Osbourne...

Diary Of An Oldman – Ozzy Turns 61

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSnj8X1zAZI[/youtube]Today is more than just another Thursday, for 61 years ago on this day in Birmingham, John Michael “Ozzy” Osbourne was born. The first 19 years of his life were pretty unremarkable until 1968,...