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“We Basically Needed a Three-Minute Filler for the Album”: How Black Sabbath Turned a Throwaway Song Into a Heavy Metal Classic
Black Sabbath threw together one of the most popular songs in heavy metal history in an afternoon as an afterthought.
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The Most + Least Played Song Live Off Every Black Sabbath Album
Here is the most and least played song live off each of Black Sabbath‘s studio albums ... The dramatic shift in album cover art ・And just how many times they played Paranoid” through ...
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“The idea was to make an album heavier than anything that had ever before”: Tony Iommi on Black Sabbath’s classic debut
Credit: Getty Images/Chris Walter Black Sabbath’s first album is effectively ground zero for heavy metal - and as guitarist Tony Iommi recalled, it was an album made under intense pressure.