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Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past ... a century of heavy metal history. Paranoid, after all, captures Black Sabbath at a moment when the future ...

In early 1971, when Black Sabbath released its second album, “Paranoid,” in the United States, the band was among only a few groups pioneering hard rock driven by metallic-sounding guitar ...

Happy anniversary to Black Sabbath's Paranoid album! When fans and critics look back at the early career of Black Sabbath they recognize that the band released six groundbreaking albums in a row ...

Geezer Butler recalled the moment Tony Iommi played the song “Paranoid” to his Black Sabbath bandmates ... a last-minute addition to their second album in 1970. Guitarist Iommi previously ...

In an effort to capitalize on the success of their debut album, Black Sabbath returned to the studio in 1970 to begin working on what would become the follow-up: Paranoid. Generally considered one ...

A nine-song tour de force including War Pigs, Iron Man, NIB and Paranoid. There are no listings ... drove us nuts with that Moog thing!”: How Black Sabbath took a surprise left turn on the classic ...

Here is the most and least played song live off each of Black Sabbath‘s studio ... The dramatic shift in album cover art ・And just how many times they played Paranoid” through the years.

Fifty years ago today, a genre-defining album was released. Black Sabbath's Paranoid came out in Europe on Sept. 18, 1970, and its title track reached No. 4 on the UK charts shortly after.