Written and recorded by the group Black Sabbath as the title cut of their 1970 debut album, it was ranked #1 on VH1’s 40 Greatest Metal songs and #250 on Rolling Stones Top 500.

Black Sabbath actually recorded the song as a filler for their album, and as the story goes originally intended to call their album ‘War Pigs’ but the label leaned on them to make a more PC choice.

The song never mentions the title in the lyrics.

In June of 2012 some of the biggest rock and metal bands put together a three disc compilation of Black Sabbath and Ozzy cover songs.

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Vince Neil (Motley Crue) George Lynch (Dokken) Stu Hamm (various bands) Gregg Bissonette (various bands) with ‘Paranoid’ plus check out a 1970 original version from Black Sabbath

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