When today’s legendary band came out, they were unlike anything anyone had ever heard back in… Black Sabbath! Their music was hardcore and at first, they almost called themselves a three-word title that started with Polka, thankfully they saw a horror movie around that time and took its much cooler title as their name.. Their first record was destroyed by the critics but out of nowhere fans bought a million copies of it and they readied their sophomore record. Needing only 3 more minutes of music to finish it, the band created a track that inadvertently affected the future of rock & roll. Paranoid would change everything. It was the unfolding of a heavy metal anthem was it inspired by dark mysticism or the highs and lows of drug indulgence….find out next on Professor of Rock.

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“Paranoid,”… the frenetic charging anthem by the trailblazing British band Black Sabbath, is one of the most influential songs that ushered in the heavy metal movement, and arguably, the track that birthed the sub-genre of Thrash Metal.

Guitarist Tony Iommi & drummer Bill Ward played together in a defunct band named Mythology. The pair wanted to form a heavy blues rock band, and enlisted vocalist Ozzy Osbourne, and bassist Geezer Butler who were refugees from the group Rare Breed.

The first name they came up with for the new band was Polka Tulk Blues (tulk rhymes with sulk) Thankfully, that moniker did not stick, and they eventually decided on Black Sabbath, after witnessing a crowded matinee screening of the Boris Karloff movie of the same name. The group landed a small advance from Vertigo Records and recorded their self-titled debut album the same day they got the money.

Black Sabbath, the album, was released in early 1970- featuring the lead single “Evil Woman."The critics HATED Black Sabbath’s debut record, but the record-buying public LOVED it. The heavy blues-influenced arrangements and dark, provocative lyrics attracted an immediate following for Sabbath around the world.

After defying critics, and selling over a million units with their introductory record, expectations were significantly higher for the band’s sophomore offering: Much of the material for the 2nd LP was written during the same period that songs were recorded for Black Sabbath’s debut, including a track originally titled “The Paranoid."

“The Paranoid" was recorded in less than 3 days- with the band performing live in the studio. The band dropped “the” and changed the title of the song to “Paranoid,” not because of an intended lyrical hook. The fact is, the word “paranoid” is never used in the song. “Paranoid” was named for its dark messaging- the nexus to the sorcery of Black Sabbath. The band wanted to name the second album War Pigs- referring to the title of one of the most popular cuts on the record, but the label felt the title was “too offensive” and convinced the band to go with Paranoid.