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.