Offering examples, he explains, “'War Pigs' was an anti-war song and 'Hand of Doom' was about drug addiction. 'Electric Funeral' was about the threat of nuclear war. 'Iron Man”'was based on Jesus Christ, the notion that he was a hero one minute and persecuted the next. But instea...
Meanwhile, their sophomore set is one of metal’s signature moments, giving us stadium anthems “Iron Man,”“Paranoid,”“War Pigs” and classic cuts “Faeries Wear Boots,”“Planet Caravan” and “Hand of Doom.” Simply put, Black Sabbath brought something new and heavy to the table, cha...
Meanwhile, their sophomore set is one of metal’s signature moments, giving us stadium anthems “Iron Man,”“Paranoid,”“War Pigs” and classic cuts “Faeries Wear Boots,”“Planet Caravan” and “Hand of Doom.” Simply put, Black Sabbath brought something new and heavy to the table, cha...
Meanwhile, their sophomore set is one of metal’s signature moments, giving us stadium anthems “Iron Man,”“Paranoid,”“War Pigs” and classic cuts “Faeries Wear Boots,”“Planet Caravan” and “Hand of Doom.” Simply put, Black Sabbath brought something new and heavy to the table, cha...
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Black Sabbath fans more than “It’s Alright” -- a laid-back, Beatles-esque ballad written and sung by drummer Bill Ward. At the time, it was seen by many fans as insulting; today, the reaction may just as often be described as “whatever”; but what’s certain is that releasing ...
‘Paranoid,’ is lined start to finish with not only great Sabbath cuts, but all-time heavy metal classics. Fortifying their sound into indisputable heavy metal, the Birmingham quartet cranked out war anthems “War Pigs” and “Hand of Doom” while staying political by bashing skinheads on “...
Though Metallica are literally the biggest metal band in the world, they still have a few releases in their catalog that have received a lot of scrutiny over the years. One of those albums of Buzz Osborne of Melvins' favorite, which is actually pretty unsurprising....
Geezer Butler felt a range of emotions when Black Sabbath played the final notes of its last-ever show on Feb. 4 in its home town of Birmingham — captured in the filmBlack Sabbath: The End,whose clip of the closing number “Paranoid” is below. ...
Van Halen, despite their chart numbers, were beginning to fracture, opening the door for Alice in Chains to make their name, much like a young Van Halen did when supporting an ailing Black Sabbath in 1978. While fan reports of Alice in Chains’ sets are mixed (a fair amount of it is ...