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US outfits like Iron Butterfly and Blue Cheer released loud, raw, guitar-heavy albums before Paranoid came out, and SabbathвЂ™s English contemporaries Led Zeppelin had put out their hugely significant dГ©but album a full 20 months earlier. Many have claimed that itвЂ™s the most powerful example of heavy metal music in its purest form.

#Paranoid black sabbath album plus#

As Dave Grohl put it: вЂњAlmost every band that made it big in the 90s owed a debt toВ them.вЂќД«lack SabbathвЂ™s Paranoid 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition is out 9 October, a five-LP collection that includes the original album, plus rare Quad Mix along with the vinyl debut of two 1970 concerts.Paranoid was produced by Rodger Bain and recorded in London at two studios, Regent Sound and Island. You can make a compelling argument that Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, and their influence is audible in everyone from Judas Priest, Nirvana, Slayer, Alice In Chains, Metallica and Slipknot, through to newcomers such as Pigsx7. ParanoidвЂ™s legacy is enormous and enduring. In the encyclopedic All-Time Top 1,000 Albums, Colin Larkin wrote: вЂњDoom, death and destruction are Black SabbathвЂ™s staple diet, which they devour with numbing intensityвЂ¦ Sabbath remain the quintessential heavy metal band.вЂќ AllmusicвЂ™s Steve Huey concurred, calling Paranoid вЂњone of the greatest and most influential heavy metal albums of all time.вЂќ Robert Christgau called the record вЂњbullshit necromancyвЂќ and Lester Bangs trashed вЂњinane lyrics that sound like Vanilla Fudge paying doggerel tribute to Aleister CrowleyвЂќ. Rolling Stone later named it the best metal album ever made, and itвЂ™s sold over 1.6 million copies in the US alone. Released in October 1970, Paranoid reached No.4 in the UK album chart and No.12 in the US when it was released there the following March. Image: Chris Walter / WireImage Doom, death and destruction Aside from, perhaps, drum-solo vehicle Rat Salad, thereвЂ™s not a weak song on the album.

The drug-addled horrors of Vietnam are laid bare on Hand Of Doom and Butler predicts a grim, apocalyptic future on Electric Funeral: вЂRobot minds of robot slaves lead them to atomic rageвЂ™. It was originally titled вЂIron BlokeвЂ™, after Osbourne remarked that IommiвЂ™s crushing chords sounded like вЂњa big iron bloke walking aroundвЂќ. The serenity is swept aside by the curdling Iron Man, with one of the most famous riffs in rock history based around a simple B/D/E powerchord progression. The label sensed a hit though, and while the album title was changed from War Pigs, the artwork wasnвЂ™t вЂ“ hence the strange disconnect between cover and title.Д®lsewhere, Planet Caravan is briefly incongruous, IommiвЂ™s gentle soloing, a nod to Reinhardt, and Bill WardвЂ™s gentle percussion making for a beatific respite as Osbourne sings through a Leslie speaker. Butler had misgivings about including it, because he thought it sounded too much like Led ZeppelinвЂ™s Communication Breakdown. Based around IommiвЂ™s sizzling riff, which starts on an E5 powerchord played on the 5th and 6th strings at the 12th fret, it was, Iommi has said, вЂњa bit of nonsenseвЂќ. The title track, the bandвЂ™s only Top 10 single, was written and recorded in anywhere from 25 minutes to two hours, depending on who you believe, because the band didnвЂ™t have enough material to fill an album. In doing so, Iommi inadvertently invented the sludgy, dark sound of British heavy metal, his style full of techniques that became rock staples for years to come вЂ“ chunky powerchords, rhythmic solidity, pentatonic licks, fluid vibrato and searing unison bends. He would later begin tuning down to Cв™Ї, too. Iommi fitted Fairy Liquid bottle tops to his fingers and initially used banjo strings before settling on 8-gauge sets for his SG, because they were easier to bend. Told he would never play again, Iommi was spurred on by the story of Django ReinhardtвЂ™s recovery from severe burns to his hands suffered in a fire. In an industrial accident thatвЂ™s become the stuff of rock legend, 17-year-old Iommi, on his last day at work in a sheet metal factory before becoming a full-time musician, severed the tips of his fretting handвЂ™s middle and ring fingers. Iommi cut his teeth on British guitar greats such as Hank Marvin, Eric Clapton and John Mayall, but his pioneering playing style was forged out of necessity. The genre-defining sound of ParanoidВ owes most to the super-human determination of Iommi, a man who would be a rich source of inspiration for countless heavy-rock players over the next 50 years. Sabbath had perfected the doomy riff-heavy sound previewed on their debut album and conjured a record that would see the Birmingham quartet, along with contemporaries Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple, change the face of British guitar music. With Iommi putting down his Strat and picking up a Gibson SG that he swapped with a right-handed player in a Birmingham car park, and adding a modified Dallas Arbiter Range Master Treble Booster to the mix, the stage was set.