Fire Garden is the fourth studio album by guitarist Steve Vai, released on September 17, 1996 through Epic Records. It reached #106 on that year's Billboard 200 chart. The album, as described by Vai in the liner notes, is divided into two "phases": "Phase 1" comprises tracks 1–9 and is entirely instrumental (with the exception of Devin Townsend's backwards vocals on "Whookam" and some more vocals toward the end of "Fire Garden Suite"), while "Phase 2", the remainder of the album, features Vai on vocals on every song except the instrumental "Warm Regards". Fire Garden was intended to be a double album, but during mastering Vai heard about the new 80 minutes CD format (instead of 74 for a standard CD), which meant that both sides would eventually fit onto a single disc. "Dyin' Day" was co-written by Ozzy Osbourne during the writing sessions for Osbourne's 1995 album Ozzmosis. Another song from those sessions, "My Little Man", made its way onto Ozzmosis and is credited on that album as being co-written by Vai.