One thing this merry band of Metal Nerderers will agree on: we LOVE us some Black Sabbath! And with fall being the quintessentially ideal season for Sabbath (and with Witches Night right around the corner), we felt it was the perfect time to jump deep into the ultra-creepy end and get into the brutally heavy modern day classic that really freaked people out a half a century ago in 1970 (!): Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid”.

Anytime we get to talk about Black Sabbath, it’s always a good time! It’s the fall, so take a get-ready pill, prepare your favorite relaxer, shut out the rest of the world for a while while you enjoy said relaxer and JOIN US as we head back to 1970, back to dark wood paneling and orange shag carpeting and back to a time when the darkest, heaviest metal band on earth was about to completely change the game with an album that would go down in history as one of the finest (if not also one of THE most critically important) moments in ALL of metal.

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Show Notes:

(00:00): Squeeze it…#noteven / Black Sabbath: Paranoid (check out our Deep Cuts Episode.Podcast)/ The perfect backdrop for a Black Sabbath Dive (#onmicburp)

(04:10): – The album cover (weirdest album cover ever???) / One half of a century of Black Sabbath’s Paranoid goodness / Blessed be the #sabbathjams / #Walpurgis (Wait, WHAT?) #woe2you / Various covers of War Pigs / #metalnerderyASMR / ***RANT ALERT*** #thehatetank

(13:47): – Iron Man and WrAstlin’ #twomohawks #dontworryaboutit / Implications involving Paranoid #dontdenythepowerof / Paranoid: more punchy and better songsmanship / #prenwobhmnwobhm / Metal Bane wishes to read your emails, EMAIL US at [email protected] /Various releases from 1970 (and the Jethro Tull vs Metallica incident; check out our Black Sabbath Episode, to find out the tangentionalality of Jethro Tull to Black Sabbath)

(23:06): – A time machine to go to shows? YES PLEASE!! / War Pigs/Luke’s Wall (www.metalnerdery.com/podcast/) #cantbeloudenough #cble / The Evil Dead + Edibles (#ohlordyeah #readthoselyrics) / #theblackalbum gag will never die / Those moments of greatness you don’t realize you’re creating when you’re actually creating those moments of greatness

(31:00): – Paranoid (a song about depression): it’s the Primal Concrete Sledge of Paranoid the album / Planet Caravan (#rollanotherbowl of your favorite #relaxer) / Iron Man (#readthoselyrics): definitely NOT related to the comic book hero / Backstory regarding the story behind those lyrics

(38:00): – Side 2 (check out the Sabbath Deep Cuts episode) Electric Funeral (that middle part tho…): ½ a century later and it’s STILL creepy af/ Tracking and Sequencing changes and/or recommendations from our perspective (JOIN US on Facebook and let us know what YOUR tracking changes might be) / Hand of Doom (It has a very “70’s” sound and feel)

(46:51): – Rat Salad / Fairies Wear Boots (one of THE best Sabbath Tracks EVER!) #70sSound #alrightnow (Fairies wear boots and dancin’ with the dwarves…) probably one of the most delicious servings of #riffcasserole ever created/ #ALLRIGHTNOW!!!! #smokin and #trippin #yeah (Metallica tangentionalalitynessnessnesque) / #itsthere #fucking #brilliant / THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO METAL NERDERY (and NOT on behalf of all of us…WOOOOOOOO!!!!!!)