Black Sabbath – Paranoid – 1970

Paranoid

Paranoid is Black Sabbath’s second album. It isn’t hard to hear why these pioneer rockers were such an influence on Hardrock and Heavy Metal. Although the music is obviously based on blues scales they manage to make heavy hifs and nice singable melodies out of it. With ease, it seems.

During this time it sound a little psycadelic, meaning that it sounds a bit experimental still. They still have not decided what they are or what kind of music they like to play. As all bands, well most of them, they later became secure in what their style really was but here it’s just pure genius.

I hold Paranoid to be a little bit better than the first. There are two obvious “hits” Iron Man and the title song Paranoid. They lift up the lesser-known songs a bit but I feel that this is a more even album than the first, even if the title track on that one is one of the heaviest pieces of music known to man.

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Tommy Snöberg Söderberg

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