Working class hero tab ozzy osbourne biography
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For the third installment of Metal Maniacs, we asked Cory Fagan, guitarist of local St. John’s folk metal upstarts Sons of an Eastern Moon and bassist at as-of-yet under wraps project Metaphora, to name ten albums that inspired his musical journey and led him to become the shredder he is today. Read on to discover the records that were important to him!
Good day folks, Pagan Fagan here from Sons of an Eastern Moon, Metaphora, Last Soul Down and Monolithic Sorcerer. I’m very pleased to be included in this list of Metal Maniacs and wanted to share some albums with you that helped shape me and my playing into the metalhead I am today. I mostly stuck to my teenage years when I was a budding rebellious metalhead getting kicked out of school for wearing my Zakk Wylde chain, haha. I will preface this by saying I went through my teens during the heyday of burnt CD’s and my discman so I had a lot more “mixtapes” than proper albums but I tried to include the ones I owned or stole 😉
I’ll include some of my biggest influences as an “adult” in the honourable mentions at the end 😀
Here we go!
Death – The Sound of Perseverance
What a way to start a list! Every song on this album is my favourite and the guitar wor
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Reviewed: December 2022
Released: 2022, Epic Records
Rating: 4/5
Reviewer: Simon Wiedemann
Even for people who know absolutely nothing about heavy metal, Ozzy Osbourne is a man who needs no introduction because of his…peculiar behaviour. But he is much more than a bit eccentric: with his first band Black Sabbath, he pioneered not only heavy metal, but doom and even sludge metal, too. When his band fired him in 1979 for being, let’s say TOO peculiar, he quickly formed his solo project with guitar legend Randy Rhoads and released two of the greatest heavy metal albums of all time. After Randy’s death, he released another great album with Jake E. Lee called ‘Bark at the Moon’, and when Ozzy took on guitarist Zakk Wylde, he released more great material such as the classic album ‘No Rest for the Wicked’. Is Ozzy’s latest album ‘Patient Number 9’ just as good? Let’s find out!
Perhaps one of the more interesting features of this music, is the choice of some of the guest musicians. How does it sound when relatively light rock guitarists such as Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton (!) play on heavier metal songs? A bit weird to me, at least. Not terrible, not even bad, but a bit ill-fitting, maybe. There is some soloing by the guitarists in question over lighter backings, but still
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