For all the labours of love that find their way onto a final master tape, some songs were never meant to be listened to past an artist's rehearsal space.

Indeed, as far as musical virtuosities go, Alex Van Halen went more or less unmatched until Cornell entered the fray, and then he had no option but to bow to his mastery. It even got to the point ...

The infamy surrounding the Norwegian black metal scene of the early 1990s has a way of drowning out the music. Thanks to ...