Let’s call the record Paranoid.’” It was a strange suggestion since Black Sabbath and Warner Bros. Records had agreed to call the album War Pigs and were already working on the cover art.

Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album ... ignominy, Paranoid’s cover is one of the most transformative moments in the early history of Black Sabbath and, by ...

Here is the most and least played song live off each of Black Sabbath ... 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.

seven months after the release of Black Sabbath. Despite the quizzical album art, it went to Number One in the U.K. After appearing on the cover of Paranoid, Brown would continue to work with ...

On Sept. 18, 1970, Black Sabbath released Paranoid. It was the second album for the group who had unwittingly reinvented hard rock as heavy metal just seven months earlier when their self-titled ...

Black Sabbath are celebrating the 50th anniversary of their seminal 1970 album Paranoid with a new vinyl box set. Paranoid: Super Deluxe Edition will include an array of material spread across ...

It seems to be an official release – Sabbath's YouTube has posted songs from it – and we know it's 1970 Paranoid-era because ... with that Moog thing!”: How Black Sabbath took a surprise left turn on ...

Black Sabbath fans will soon be able to add a special collection of vinyl records to their shelves. This August, the band will release Hand Of Doom, a compilation of all eight of Black Sabbath‘s ...

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 ...

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 ...