Black Sabbath - Paranoid [Deluxe Edition] (2016) FLAC Beolab1700

Black Sabbath - Paranoid [Deluxe Edition] (2016) FLAC Beolab1700

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Black Sabbath - Paranoid [Deluxe Edition]
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Artist...............: Black Sabbath
Album................: Paranoid [Deluxe Edition]
Genre................: Rock
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2016
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 59 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment
Information..........:
Posted by............: Beolab1700 on 2/4/2016

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Tracklisting
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Disc 1: Original album (Vertigo/6360 011 (U.K.), 1970/Warner Bros. WS 1887 (U.S.), 1971)

War Pigs/Luke’s Wall
Paranoid
Planet Caravan
Iron Man
Electric Funeral
Hand of Doom
Rat Salad
Jack the Stripper/Fairies Wear Boots

Disc 2: Bonus material, Regent Sound Studios – 6/16-17/1970

War Pigs (Instrumental)
Paranoid (Alternate Lyrics)
Planet Caravan (Alternate Lyrics)
Iron Man (Instrumental)
Electric Funeral (Instrumental)
Hand of Doom (Instrumental)
Rat Salad (Alternate Mix)
Fairies Wear Boots (Instrumental)

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The deluxe edition includes the 2012 remaster of the original album, available on CD for the first time, along with a second disc of outtakes that are previously unreleased in North America.
Paranoid was not only Black Sabbath’s most popular record (it was a number one smash in the U.K., and “Paranoid” and “Iron Man” both scraped the U.S. charts despite virtually nonexistent radio play), it also stands as one of the greatest and most influential heavy metal albums of all time.
Paranoid refined Black Sabbath’s signature sound — crushingly loud, minor-key dirges loosely based on heavy blues-rock — and applied it to a newly consistent set of songs with utterly memorable riffs, most of which now rank as all-time metal classics. Where the extended, multi-sectioned songs on the debut sometimes felt like aimless jams, their counterparts on Paranoid have been given focus and direction, lending an epic drama to now-standards like “War Pigs” and “Iron Man” (which sports one of the most immediately identifiable riffs in metal history). The subject matter is unrelentingly, obsessively dark, covering both supernatural/sci-fi horrors and the real-life traumas of death, war, nuclear annihilation, mental illness, drug hallucinations, and narcotic abuse. Yet Sabbath makes it totally convincing, thanks to the crawling, muddled bleakness and bad-trip depression evoked so frighteningly well by their music. Even the qualities that made critics deplore the album (and the group) for years increase the overall effect — the technical simplicity of Ozzy Osbourne’s vocals and Tony Iommi’s lead guitar vocabulary; the spots when the lyrics sink into melodrama or awkwardness; the lack of subtlety and the infrequent dynamic contrast. Everything adds up to more than the sum of its parts, as though the anxieties behind the music simply demanded that the band achieve catharsis by steamrolling everything in its path, including its own limitations.

Monolithic and primally powerful, Paranoid defined the sound and style of heavy metal more than any other record in rock history.

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