I remember this album from my uncle's record collection in the late 70's when I started exploring he's records. The Black Sabbath albums were frightening and strange and I did not really get the music by then but as time has flown by I really really like the sheer quality of the early Sabbath albums. This, their 2nd is no exception and it's super heavy, melodic, variated with great attacking vocals and tempo changes and guitar solos to kill for. They were of course inspired by the progressive movement of the time that was huge in heavier music and I not many bands were NOT inspired by that and it can clearly be heard even on this album and they make the best possible of it.

The album was recorded only 4 months after their debut album was released and it reached nr. 1 in the british charts and the single Paranoid nr. 4. The album has sold 10 million copies worldwide! It was released in USA the year after and reached nr. 12 there and is ranked as nr. 131 on the Rolling Stone-magazine 500-list of the best albums of all time.

What is sure as hell is that this album inspired all heavy music to follow and created a way for heavy music to reach the top lists and people all over the world.

1)War pigs (9,0) 8-minute oozin' slow heavy metal with brilliant progressive and melodic parts.

2)Paranoid (8,0) Simple riff and short hit song.

3)Planet caravan (7,0) Strange sounds from hell...

4)Iron man (8,5) See song 1.

5)Electric funeral (8,5) Super slow and devilish...

6)Hand of doom (9,5) My favourite song on the album, see song 1. but better!

7)Rat salad (8,0) 2-minute progressive and great chaos.

8)Fairier wear boots (8,5)

Score: 8,38

Ozzy Osburne(John Michael Osburne)-vocals (b.1948)

Tony Iommi(Anthony Frank Iommi)-guitars and flute (b.1948)

Geezer Butler(Terence Michael Joseph Butler)-bass (b.1949)

Bill Ward(William Thomas Ward)-drums (b.1948)

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