Black Sabbath released Paranoid in 1970 and almost ignored it, yet it became one of their most iconic songs of all time.

The Black Sabbath song Paranoid has been streamed one billion times on Spotify. The Birmingham-based band, often considered the founding fathers of the heavy metal genre, announced that their 1970 ...

Ozzy Osbourne is a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer twice over — both for Black Sabbath and his solo career. But which is the better Ozzy-featuring album — Black Sabbath's Paranoid or Ozzy's No More Tears?

Today’s metal bands are a bunch of slackers, relatively speaking. You think releasing an album every three years is hard work? Imagine what it was like four decades ago, when heavy metal barely ...

King Charles III’s Band of the Coldstream Guards paid tribute to late heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne with a rendition of Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid.” Guards dressed in their iconic red tunics and fur ...

Geezer Butler recalled the moment Tony Iommi played the song “Paranoid” to his Black Sabbath bandmates, and they initially refused to work on it. The band’s breakthrough single was a last-minute ...

Toyah and Robert Fripp didn’t always just have Sunday Lunch in their kitchen. In the early peak-Covid days, sometimes it was in their garden, and sometimes it was in their cellar which looked kinda ...

If you’ve never experienced depression, consider yourself a very lucky person. If you have, then you know that it can be crushing, debilitating, and devastating. It’s one hell of a mean disease and it ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Black Sabbath is one of the bestselling rock bands in the history ...