The song exemplified the bands musicianship and demonstrated that they were capable of a lot more than bone crushing guitar riffs and smoldering drum fills. Black Sabbath were an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1968 by guitarist Tony Iommi, drummer Bill Ward, bassist Geezer Butler and vocalist Ozzy Osbourne. Along with a pre-requisite drum solo, the album features an unusually quiet and cosmic love song “Planet Caravan,” with bongos and jazzy guitar line, cold, distant, with fantastical lyrics about feeling lost in space. Paranoid was first released September 1970 in the UK, with the USA release delayed to January 1971. Paranoid was the sound of Black Sabbath’s reality, a plea for understanding that would resonate with millions of people feeling the same disaffection. The record’s subjects include imminent doom, cosmically fated love, drug casualties, nuclear war, brutality, and general disillusionment, themes that would be featured over the next few generations of heavy metal recordings. Paranoid ist das zweite Studioalbum von Black Sabbath, das für den Heavy Metal als wegweisend gilt und eines der erfolgreichsten Alben des Jahres 1970 war. Inizialmente, secondo le intenzioni della band. The music is dark and gloomy with blues-inspired guitar riffs that other groups have xeroxed into an unrecognizable oblivion. Paranoid un brano musicale dei Black Sabbath, secondo singolo estratto dal loro omonimo album del 1970. “ Paranoid is important because it is the blueprint for metal and it led the world into a new sound and scene,” Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford said in the liner notes for a 2016 reissue of the album. It’s no accident that Paranoid is considered one of the greatest and most influential heavy metal albums of all time. A look at the second album released by Black Sabbath in 1970 titled Paranoid, that has since become a classic.
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