Paranoid black sabbath1/8/2023 ![]() It starts off with a 4/4 crotchet drum beat (which I often get confused with Slow Ride by Foghat), then it goes into vibrato-laden semibreves in F (which are a pain in the backside to play on guitar) that set the scene and give you chills. In fact, it’s one of the most recognised metal songs ever and is considered a metal anthem among many. It has everything you could ask for from a Black Sabbath song: atmospheric string-bending – check simple but heavy riffs – check bone-chilling lyrics – check. It could change your life.Īnother track that is worthy of mention is Iron Man. If all that about the musical jargon confuses you, just take a few minutes out and listen to it. Some a capella from Ozzy “generals gathered in their masses… Just like witches at black masses, …Oh lord yeah!” it’s not just the lyrical themes dealing with Satan and witchcraft that grab your attention, it’s Ozzy’s photogenic (or should I say CDgenic) voice that goes perfectly with their style. Musically it has what you expect of Sabbath, some slow, stoned-esque power chords in the intro, and then silence… D and E power chords come in then a hi-hat rhythm comes in to set the scene, D and E chords again. It gets you, as the listener, hyped for the rest of the album. The first track, War Pigs, is an absolute monster of a tune. I was one cool 10 year old I’ll give you that.Įnough of that, let’s get down to the nitty-gritty. The chances are, you probably know someone who owns this record, or at least spent the whole of Year 5/6 playing it on Guitar Hero 3. It is often described by critics old and new as one of the quintessential metal albums. It contains the band’s three signature songs: Paranoid, Iron Man and War Pigs. Only a few months after releasing this milestone record, the then-lineup of bassist and lyricist Geezer Butler, songwriter and guitarist Tony Iommi, drummer Bill Ward and singer Ozzy Osbourne, released an album much bigger… This is evident in the whole album, especially The Wizard, N.I.B and Black Sabbath, the latter of which Judas Priest’s Rob Halford said is the most evil song ever written. Their original self-titled debut album invented heavy metal, characterised by it’s doomy, evil sound and it’s thumping basslines. A group of four twenty-somethings had just finished their debut, one that invented the genre that shook my world as a writer.
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