Black Sabbath - Paranoid CD (album) cover   Black Sabbath   Prog
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Sabbath's second album of 1970 still heavily features the doom
metal sound that they had already perfected on their debut -
unleashed with devastating effect in War Pigs and Hand of Doom -
but the selection of songs this time around are more varied,
proving that the group weren't just a one-trick pony. Never has
a quickie throwaway single been as influential as the title
track, which set a precedent for speed metal in proving that
crunching heavy metal riffs could be played fast to good effect.
The trippy space blues track Planet Caravan proves that the band
were paying attention to the experiments then underway in the
progressive rock genre, and also acts as an interesting
interlude between the speed metal of Paranoid and the doom metal
of Iron Man.  The band even prove they have a sense of humour on
the closing track, Fa