Black Sabbath has been signed on the Philips label in December 1969 and released his first single, "Evil Woman" through subsidiaryFontana Philips Records in January 1970. Later releases are handled by the progressive rock label newly formed Philips, Vertigo Records. Although the single did not chart, the band is given within two days in the studio late January to record their first album with producer Rodger Bain. Iommi is planning a live recording: "We thought 'We have two days to do and one day is to mix." So we play live Ozzy sing along, we just put it in a separate cabin and we left. We never had a second round of most things .. "
The eponymous Black Sabbath was posted on Friday, February 13, 1970. The album reached number 8 on the map of the United Kingdom Album, and following the release in the United States and Canada in May 1970 by Warner Bros. Records, the album reached number 23 above, the Billboard 200, where it stayed for over a year. Although the album was a commercial success, is widely highlighted by critics, with Lester Bangs of Rolling Stone dismissed the album as "discordant jams with bass and guitar reeling like Speedfreaks velocitised perimeter of their music, but never found harmony. It is sold in large numbers while being highlighted, giving the band's first major exhibition [28] It has since been certified platinum in the U.S. by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the British Phonographic byBritish Industry (BPI).
To build on the success of their album in the U.S., the band quickly returned to the studio in June 1970, four months after Black Sabbathwas published. The new album was originally set to be named after the War Pigs "War Pigs" song, which is critical of the Vietnam War. However Warner changed the title of the album Paranoid, fearing the game by supporters of the Vietnam War. Lead-off single, the album "Paranoid" was written in the studio at the last minute. As Bill Ward explains: "We do not have enough songs for the album, and Tony just played the guitar riffs (Paranoid) and it takes twenty, 25 minutes up and down .." The single was released before the album in September 1970 and reached number four on the UK charts, is only ten hits from Black Sabbath. Their first concert on American soil took place at Glassboro State College (now Rowan University) on October 30, 1970.
Black Sabbath released their second album Paranoid in the United Kingdom in October 1970. Encouraged by the success of "Paranoid" single, the album hit number one in England. U.S. release was held until January 1971, as a Black Sabbath album was still on the cards at the time of release Paranoid UK. The album reached # 12 in the United States in March 1971 and will go to sell four million copies in the United States, with almost no radio airplay. The album was re-scheduled by the rock critic at the time, but the modern views as Allmusic cites Steve Huey Paranoid as "one of the album the biggest and most influential heavy metal band of all time "who" defined the sound and style of heavy metal, more than any other document in the history of rock. "[2] In 2003, the album was ranked number 130 on Rolling Stone magazine list of 500 greatest albums of all time. Paranoid album success enabled the group to tour the U.S. for the first time in December 1970, which gave birth to the second single from the album "Iron Man." Although the single has not reached the top 40, "Iron Man" remains one of the most popular songs Black Sabbath, and the highest band of U.S. single path until 1998 "Psycho Man".
