Black Sabbath · 1970 · 1970s · Entry 15 of 272

Paranoid

Heavy metal's foundation document. 'War Pigs', 'Iron Man', 'Paranoid' written in a single afternoon. Iommi's riffs invent a genre on contact.

— Jason Chletsos, curator

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