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Reportedly Black Sabbath performed their final show in January 2016 in their Birmingham England home, but remember that this band has said goodbye more often than the Von Trapp Family Singers. Little did they know that fifty years later we’d be marking the release of the album that defined a whole new genre, heavy metal. In this classic rock interview original Black Sabbath singer / lyricist Ozzy Osbourne has fond memories of those days when he and his mates from the working-class neighborhood Aston decided to ditch their trendy blues music, cut the band down from a 6-piece to four, and started doing what Ozzy characterizes in this classic rock interview as “spooky music”. 'Even my 17-year old ears could hear the dramatic strides that the “underground’ hardscrabble British band had made on their sophomore effort Paranoid only six months after their debut. Yet many detractors who had watched Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, and Lon Chaney in such classic scary movies as Dracula and Frankenstein, nevertheless felt that Black Sabbath’s fantasy deadpan doomsday warnings on Paranoid and Masters Of Reality, in such songs as 'Iron Man', 'War Pigs', and 'Children of the Grave', were somehow a Marshall amplifier too far.

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BLACK SABBATH paranoid NO CASE CD ALBUM free uk postage. The album contains several of the band’s signature songs, including. 'Beginning with their debut in early 1970, while music critics were not hesitant to slag off every Black Sabbath release, it became the band’s first gold record in America. Paranoid is the second studio album by Black Sabbath. Black Sabbath’s sound and subjects, which would be lampooned by most critics then as cartoonish, were forged as much by these deadly concerns as by Animal House debauchery.

And all of this violence was set against the pernicious incessant white noise of the nuclear arms race between the US and Soviet Union in a thermonuclear game of “chicken”. It seemed that time was marked and US policy formulated by a seemingly endless stream of violent acts including assassinations, bombings, race riots, the slaughter of college students on the Kent State campus, and the almost decade-long Viet Nam War. Paranoid refined Black Sabbaths signature sound - crushingly loud, minor-key dirges loosely based on heavy blues-rock - and applied it to a newly consistent. Says Host Redbeard: 'In September 1970 the world into which the Birmingham England band Black Sabbath quickly rose to popularity with their second album, Paranoid, felt increasingly like a dangerous place. North American syndicated rock radio show and website, InTheStudio With Redbeard: The Stories Behind History’s Greatest Rock Bands, celebrates the 50th anniversary of Black Sabbath's Paranoid album. Black Sabbaths influential second album Paranoid will be reissued as vinyl and CD super deluxe box sets in October in celebration of the 40th anniversary.