Exactly 50 years ago, a genre-defining album was released. Recorded in just a few days, Black Sabbath's 'Paranoid' delivered unforgettable songs about war, corruption and trauma — and helped turn the world on to heavy metal.
and its title track reached No. 4 on the UK charts shortly after. The band's first, self-titled release had just come out months earlier, but it wasSinger Henry Rollins is a self-proclaimed Black Sabbath advocate. He fronted the band Black Flag for a while, and he's now a writer and music presenter for NPR member station KCRW. Rollins says Sabbath's first release was more like a"sketchpad." On their second album, the musicians found their focus.album.
All four original members were born in the late 1940s to a bleak future, according to McIver. Birmingham had been largely destroyed by bombs in World War II, and many families were struggling. "If you were a lad back then in this environment, your future was 45 years on a factory assembly line," McIver says."That's literally the truth. That's what so many people faced."
That firsthand experience with postwar tragedy drove the musicians' sound and songwriting."War Pigs" is a rebuke of politicians and war."Hand of Doom" is about the horrors of Vietnam and the many soldiers who came home addicted to opium."Electric Funeral" imagines a world destroyed by nuclear bombs.
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