1983’sLick It Up, showed they could play ball with the fresh crop of glam metal miscreants who grew up air-guitaring toDestroyerin their bedrooms. The deliciously
Eddie Van Halen brought a completely fresh bag of tricks to his game, [which] would also come to dominate the way the Eighties generation of guitarists played their instruments.” Adding insult to injury, Sabbath couldn’t even minimize the damage by kicking those young upstarts off their ...