Classic Tracks: Black Sabbath's "Paranoid"

Classic Tracks: Black Sabbath's "Paranoid"

In the fall of 1970, Black Sabbath mounted an aural assault on the music world with the release of their second album, Paranoid, storming the charts in their native England and in America. The album showcased the band’s innovative, uncompromising hard rock sound with songs like “War Pigs,” “Iron Man,” “Electric Funeral” and the title track, a relentlessly driving ode to alienation. Black Sabbath formed in Birmingham from the remains of the Briti…