10 Hidden Details In Hard Rock Tracks You Never Noticed

Hard rock is a genre that does not rely on subtlety. From the opening blast of guitar or the pounding of drums, a lot of bands tend to get straight to the point when pummeling you over the head with great riffs. On the other side, some bands give little sonic rewards for those listening a little closer.

From thrash metal to alt-rock, there have always been bands that have gone the extra mile to make their songs truly extraordinary. This can boil down to a certain guitar track, an added vocal section, or even just sonic experimentation for the hell of it. Sometimes, the band's will voluntarily hide these tricks just so the hardcore fans will be able to spot them. These are the kind of moments that fans will latch onto even after listening to the song a million times.

Whether it be through an added extension or just a greater story, these are the subtle touches that have made rock fans come back for more time and time again. As long as there is still great hard rock, there will always be bands out there willing to push the envelope that much more. Here are the hidden details that you may not have caught from some of your favorite bands.

Ozzy Osbourne's solo career really took off after the success of "Crazy Train." With the help of guitar god Randy Rhoads, The Prince of Darkness fully distanced himself from his Black Sabbath past and blossomed into his own separate entity. That doesn't mean everything that he did was serious though.

Shortly before the fade of Osbourne's biggest hit, there is a tiny sped-up voice that most fans believe is meant to mimic some kind of demonic child. While it's certainly up to interpretation what the message is, the actual meaning has more to do with Ozzy's dietary habits then, say, witchcraft. As the band were finishing up the recording, they had decided to add on the extended voice but were unsure of what it would say. After going through so many different ideas, the producer just stuck a microphone in front of an engineer and asked him what he had eaten for breakfast that morning.

The man's answer of "an egg" can be heard ever so slightly on the extended motif at the end of the track. Though Ozzy may have been holding onto his more sinister reputation, there was always a bit of tongue-in-cheek humor to the madman's recording processes.