Começando com o album de estreia homónimo em 1970, a mestria da música criada por Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler e Bill Ward - jovens amigos do Norte de Inglaterra - foi a fundação que definiu o heavy metal. Durante os anos 70 este grupo de músicos fabulosos editou oito albums que marcaram a história do género, como Paranoid de 1970.

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Starting with Sabbath's eponymous 1970 debut album, the menacing and masterful music made by Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward - youthful friends from Northern England - laid the blueprint for, and ultimately defined, heavy metal. Throughout the '70s, this stellar original lineup - whose signature sound fused crushing minor key intensity, indelible riffs, and a blues rock foundation - delivered eight landmark albums. At the decade's end, Ozzy departed for astronomical solo fame, but his lead vocals on this astounding octet set the standard for every head banger to come.

"...nearly every heavy-metal and extreme rock band of the last three decades — from Metallica and Nirvana to Marilyn Manson, Slipknot and all of those acts lining up each year to play Ozzfest — owes a debt of worship to Tony Iommi's crushing, granite-fuzz guitar chords, the Visigoth rhythm machine of Bill Ward and Geezer Butler, and Ozzy Osbourne's agonized bray in "Para-noid," "Iron Man" and "War Pigs."" - Rolling Stone

"When an accident left guitarist Tony Iommi without the tips of two fingers, it seemed like the end of the road for Black Sabbath. But, inspired by the great, handicapped guitarist Django Reinhardt, Iommi fashioned thimbles out of plastic, and developed a heavy playing style that would define metal forever." - Rolling Stone

"After Sabbath’s first U.S. tour, Iommi was at Regent Studios in London trying to write one more song for their next album. 'I started fiddling about on the guitar and came up with this riff,' he said. 'When the others came back [from lunch], we recorded it on the spot.'" - Rolling Stone

Lista de Faixas:

1. War Pigs
2. Paranoid
3. Planet Caravan
4. Iron Man
5. Electrical Funeral
6. Hand Of Doom
7. Rat Salad
8. Fairies Wear Boots

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