Release type
ALBUM
Release options
1970 Warner Records Inc.
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1
War Pigs / Luke's Wall (2014 Remaster)
07:54
Lyrics availableSynced lyrics availablePopularity 7/10 -
2
Paranoid (2016 Remaster)
02:48
Lyrics availableSynced lyrics availablePopularity 10/10 -
3
Planet Caravan (2013 Remaster)
04:29
Lyrics availableSynced lyrics availablePopularity 7/10 -
4
Iron Man (2014 Remaster)
05:55
Lyrics availableSynced lyrics availablePopularity 9/10 -
5
Electric Funeral (2013 Remaster)
04:49
Lyrics availableSynced lyrics availablePopularity 5/10 -
6
Hand of Doom (2013 Remaster)
07:08
Lyrics availableSynced lyrics availablePopularity 5/10 -
7
Rat Salad (2013 Remaster)
02:30
Popularity 4/10 -
8
Jack the Stripper / Fairies Wear Boots (2013 Remaster)
06:12
Lyrics availableSynced lyrics availablePopularity 5/10
Paranoid was not only Black Sabbath's most popular record (it was a number one smash in the U.K., and "Paranoid" and "Iron Man" both scraped the U.S. charts despite virtually nonexistent radio play), it also stands as one of the greatest and most influential heavy metal albums of all time. Paranoid refined Black Sabbath's signature sound -- crushingly loud, minor-key dirges loosely based on heavy blues-rock -- and applied it to a newly consistent set of songs with utterly memorable riffs, most of which now rank as all-time metal classics. Where the extended, multi-sectioned songs on the debut sometimes felt like aimless jams, their counterparts on Paranoid have been given focus and direction, lending an epic drama to now-standards like "War Pigs" and "Iron Man" (which sports one of the most immediately identifiable riffs in metal history). The subject matter is unrelentingly, obsessively dark, covering both supernatural/sci-fi horrors and the real-life traumas of death, war, nuclear annihilation, mental illness, drug hallucinations, and narcotic abuse. Yet Sabbath makes it totally convincing, thanks to the crawling, muddled bleakness and bad-trip depression evoked so frighteningly well by their music. Even the qualities that made critics deplore the album (and the group) for years increase the overall effect -- the technical simplicity of Ozzy Osbourne's vocals and Tony Iommi's lead guitar vocabulary; the spots when the lyrics sink into melodrama or awkwardness; the lack of subtlety and the infrequent dynamic contrast. Everything adds up to more than the sum of its parts, as though the anxieties behind the music simply demanded that the band achieve catharsis by steamrolling everything in its path, including its own limitations. Monolithic and primally powerful, Paranoid defined the sound and style of heavy metal more than any other record in rock history. ~ Steve Huey
1. War Pigs / Luke's Wall (2014 Remaster)
- Bass Guitar
- Geezer Butler
- Primary Artist
- Black Sabbath
- Drums
- Bill Ward
- Lead Guitar
- Tony Iommi
- Vocals
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Composer
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Geezer Butler
Bill Ward
Tony Iommi
Ozzy Osbourne - Producer
- Rodger Bain
2. Paranoid (2016 Remaster)
- Bass Guitar
- Geezer Butler
- Primary Artist
- Black Sabbath
- Drums
- Bill Ward
- Lead Guitar
- Tony Iommi
- Vocals
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Composer
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Geezer Butler
Tony Iommi
Ozzy Osbourne
Bill Ward - Engineer
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Tony Allom
Brian Humphries - Producer
- Rodger Bain
- Remastering Engineer
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Matt Wortham
Andy Pearce
3. Planet Caravan (2013 Remaster)
- Bass Guitar
- Geezer Butler
- Primary Artist
- Black Sabbath
- Drums
- Bill Ward
- Lead Guitar
- Tony Iommi
- Vocals
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Composer
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Geezer Butler
Tony Iommi
Ozzy Osbourne
Bill Ward - Engineer
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Tony Allom
Brian Humphries - Producer
- Rodger Bain
- Remastering Engineer
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Matt Wortham
Andy Pearce
4. Iron Man (2014 Remaster)
- Bass Guitar
- Geezer Butler
- Primary Artist
- Black Sabbath
- Drums
- Bill Ward
- Lead Guitar
- Tony Iommi
- Vocals
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Composer
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Geezer Butler
Tony Iommi
Ozzy Osbourne
Bill Ward - Engineer
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Tom Allom
Barry Sheffield - Producer
- Rodger Bain
- Remastering Engineer
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Dan Hersch
Bill Inglot
5. Electric Funeral (2013 Remaster)
- Bass Guitar
- Geezer Butler
- Primary Artist
- Black Sabbath
- Drums
- Bill Ward
- Lead Guitar
- Tony Iommi
- Vocals
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Composer
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Geezer Butler
Tony Iommi
Ozzy Osbourne
Bill Ward - Engineer
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Tom Allom
Brian Humphries - Producer
- Rodger Bain
- Remastering Engineer
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Matt Wortham
Andy Pearce
6. Hand of Doom (2013 Remaster)
- Bass Guitar
- Geezer Butler
- Primary Artist
- Black Sabbath
- Drums
- Bill Ward
- Lead Guitar
- Tony Iommi
- Vocals
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Composer
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Geezer Butler
Tony Iommi
Ozzy Osbourne
Bill Ward - Engineer
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Tony Allom
Brian Humphries - Producer
- Rodger Bain
- Remastering Engineer
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Matt Wortham
Andy Pearce
7. Rat Salad (2013 Remaster)
- Primary Artist
- Black Sabbath
- Bass Guitar
- Geezer Butler
- Drums
- Bill Ward
- Lead Guitar
- Tony Iommi
- Vocals
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Composer
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Geezer Butler
Tony Iommi
Ozzy Osbourne
Bill Ward - Producer
- Rodger Bain
- Remastering Engineer
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Matt Wortham
Andy Pearce
8. Jack the Stripper / Fairies Wear Boots (2013 Remaster)
- Primary Artist
- Black Sabbath
- Bass Guitar
- Geezer Butler
- Drums
- Bill Ward
- Lead Guitar
- Tony Iommi
- Vocals
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Composer
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Geezer Butler
Bill Ward
Tony Iommi
Ozzy Osbourne - Producer
- Rodger Bain
- Remastering Engineer
- Andy Pearce
Technical Specifications
- Volume
- 1 volume only
- Tracks
- 8 tracks available
- Type
- ALBUM
- Format
- Digital Media
- Duration
- 41 minutes and 47 seconds
- Explicit
- None
- Coverart
- Available and up to 1000x1000 px
- Booklet
- Not available
- Max Quality
CD Quality (Lossless)
16bit / 44.1 kHz
Stereo
- Audio Extension
Lossless: FLAC, M4A, WAV, WV, AIFF
Lossy: AAC, MP3, M4A, MP4, OGA, OGG, OPUS, WMA
- Archive Format
- Available in these formats: ZIP, TAR, RAR
- Lyrics
- 7/8 tracks have lyrics
- Synchronized Lyrics
- 7/8 tracks have synced lyrics
- Genres
- Rock, Hard Rock, Metal, Stoner Rock
- Label
- Rhino/Warner Records
- Music Distribution Service
- Warner
- Country
United States- Language
- English (United States)
- Popularity
- Popularity 6/10
- Release Date
- Sep 17, 1970
- Track Preview
- Available
- Delivery Charge
- Free
- Delivery Method
- Digital download link via Email or Personal Dashboard on this site
- UPC
- 603497905836
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