Advantages: The final performances of Randy Rhoads. Disadvantages: Inferior and not-very-long-awaited follow-up to 'Blizzard of Ozz.'
...6. Tonight
7. S.A.T.O.
8. Diary of a Madman
Only serving to further prove the desperate stretching of ideas, the first two songs not only deal with madness, or more specifically an alternative and criticised point of view, but are also, and this is the regrettable but admittedly ironic part, about flying. Planes have been a consistent subject in heavy metal, from Iron Maiden's appreciation of the Spitfire experience to Queensr’che, and more recently ... ...melodic guitar riff from Rhoads, before Ozzy's legendary voice (not for all the right reasons) harks back to the glory days of several months earlier, with the previous album. Deserving special attention is Bob Daisley's bass guitar, wrongly credited to Rudy Sarzo in the booklet, which makes its presence felt on both of these early albums more prominently than many similar bands would attempt, especially in the slower, and more blues-based songs ...
Frankingsteins 23.04.2008
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