First listen to Black Sabbath - Hand of Doom (REACTION)

[@iommiozzy5745]

Sabbath best band ever

[@Yngwulff]

Bill Ward beats those drums like they owe him money!

[@scottcolman9757]

One of their best songs.

[@jerryward3311]

Paranoid is one of those rare albums that you can listen from start to finish, every song is amazing.

[@ΝικοςΡαπτης-ξ2ψ]

Maybe the most impressive rock song i ever heard.Some young british put the listener in a drug s addict experience from pleasure of drug to the sad end.The moment of drumms like a heartbeat and then a solo so desperate like the man trying to find something to save him.Brilliant like whole Paranoid LP.Every song is musically and lyrically a cry for help for this world we live.There were a lot of bands at 70s to entertain people but only one to make people think about what we humans must do to change the world

[@moefeaux1442]

The "first it was the bomb" in the lyrics he was referring to I think was Nagasaki [WWII], then he states Viet Nam napalm which came years later to put it in perspective.

[@mora1948]

I’d recommend watching War Pigs live in paris 1970 it’s a killer performance and u get to see them in action!

[@micko11154]

Too true!

[@shspurs1342]

You said the bass was sick. The bass player wrote the lyrics.

[@tonyanderton3521]

Yes, Dicon, you pretty much got it; the song is about a Vietnam War vet who turns to heroin use. The song describes both musically and lyrically his own destruction. The genius in the composition, for me, is how the dynamics of the music changes to paint the picture according to the unfolding of the story. I first heard this album (Paranoid) as a 13/14-year-old, in 1972/3. It took me another 40 years or so to realise that Hand of Doom is one of the greatest rock songs ever written - probably in the top 10. You will do the same, albeit you seem to be ahead of me at your age in your perceptive analysis. Black Sabbath lyrics are usually extremely deep. Our friend WSN000, below, recommended that you try A National Acrobat, and I would go along with that. Best wishes from the UK.

[@alejandromahlknecht5131]

One of my favorite Sabbath songs...

[@mojobag01]

They played a pair of gigs for US soldiers returning from Vietnam. The guys that needed a bit more patching up before they could make the parade, so to speak. Geezer is an attentive little weirdo and took a lot of it in.

[@wsn0009]

Another lyrically deep song by Sabbath that's underrated is A National Acrobat. Musically, it's also top notch... definitely worth checking out.

[@brucecronin6396]

Vietnam Vet, PTSD !! Sad. They still need help. I'm 73 years young and these Vets were mistreated when they returned. God Bless them !! and all our troops !!

[@ratdad48]

I'm a Nam vet. Experienced a lot, I did. This ptsd acronym is the modern word for shell shocked. This problem was very rare and in my fighting days and also during the time my father and his brothers were fighting in ww2. (Now that was real scary). I know it's real, but they never had the problem. Now, it seems everybody has it or some other type of disorder.

[@ChicagoBeaver]

I saw Van Halen/Black Sabbath live in frikkn concert, Chicago International Ampitheatre, 1978. I was 16. David Lee Roth and Ozzy Osbourne. Still have the concert ticket stub.

[@navinspurpose7609]

Black Sabbath original members. Ozzy Osbourne =lead vocals Tony Ioomi= guitar Geezer Butler=bass Bill Ward=drums All 4 are in their 70's

[@pmR32red]

Tony Iommi *

[@NicoCasadoZ]

Ward is under the ground :(

[@ClaudiaMitchell-jn7fw]

I’m 69, forever young ! 🔥🌼✌🏻🦋💋✨⚡️🌹🌺🌼🌈🌸🤟🏻🇺🇸.

[@moefeaux1442]

Spot on. Give "Fairies Wear Boots" a listen. I'm curious to see your interpretation.

[@CarySmith1968]

Anger, depression, anxiety, nightmares, hyper vigilance, sleeplessness, withdrawn and loss of interest in things you once enjoyed are a few of the symptoms of PTSD/Shell Shock. I would never compare my experiences in the first Gulf War to what many of the Vietnam Vets went through, but living with PTSD is still an everyday struggle. When I first returned, I went from never tasting alcohol to trying to stay intoxicated for the first 5 years. Luckily, I never turned to drugs and I don't carry a half gallon of Bacardi around with me everywhere I go anymore. I haven't quit drinking, but it's nothing like it was before.

[@DiconDissectionalReactions]

I'm glad you came back to us.

[@CarySmith1968]

@@DiconDissectionalReactions Thank you!

[@ClaudiaMitchell-jn7fw]

I struggle w/ PTSD too. Off alcohol and Morphine, but it’s a daily and nightly thing. Take care my friend. Thank you for serving America ! ❤️✌🏻

[@sagittarius420cheefie]

A lot of war vets were put on opioids after being hit with grenades an such.

[@jonnyyen7169]

Obviously wallowing in darkness is pointless and can lead to nihilism. However, to ignore it is just as bad. The lyrics can be a glimpse into the abyss, but usually with a purpose, a message to be delivered. The best comedians get the message across with a laugh. Sometimes you have to be shocked, to get a shocking truth.

[@davidfinnell1660]

I think you nailed it!

[@mikeymikebw]

Fairies wear boots! Oh and electric funeral!

[@mckgarth]

This was written DURING the Vietnam war. He's talking to the soldiers in Nam at the time

[@julieheywood8832]

another great british band .

[@scottcolman9757]

Fairies wear boots, sweet leaf.

[@davidzornes6863]

Our rock station in 87ish,, I bribed them with pizza so they would play this and " Heart of the Sunrise"

[@mintstateamericana7234]

I am in my 7th decade of life and hard core Black Sabbath from the beginning. As a heavy surf/skate party animal in the 70’s this song scared the absolute Shiite out of me ad well as everyone around me. As with all of Sabbaths early work, it is not a glorification of saten and drugs but instead a WARNING. This piece stopped countless 70’s casual drug users dead in their tracks and saved countless lives!

[@mrshiney2]

Most lyrics are written by Bass player Geezer. melody by the OZ

[@richardquinlan8199]

1970 anti drug message.

[@joethebassplayer]

Okay!! I was going to suggest this song but I assumed it would be too obscure and/or not "your thing" but such a groovy as tune... If you want to to really go dark/sublime and maddening... Check out King Crimson's "Starless"... One of the few songs that make we "well-up" and get teary eyed from its beauty and sorrow... Enjoy!! Great Videos!

[@BigLou5150]

Toni Iommi does it all with a plastic fingertip...he cut the tip of his finger off at a butcher shop...that's why they sound so heavy cause they had to tune down so he could play the notes...

[@garya7893]

The Warning is Tonys best guitar work you will like it

[@waynestumbo2408]

agreed

[@shspurs1342]

Is Black Sabbath’s version of The warning. The greatest cover of all time.

[@garya7893]

@@shspurs1342 I like Hearts cover Stairway to heaven played to Zeppelin at the Pres. honors I tear up a bit every time i see it

[@shspurs1342]

Gary A I have never listened to the Heart version. Because i have never liked Led Zeppelin.

[@lucypoopies]

This track MUST have inspired Metallica to write both "Master of Puppets" and "Disposable Heroes" at the very least.

[@thomasklempin542]

Look into Budgie! Very similar from Wales. Heavy

[@chriscollier7469]

The Budgie tracks : hammer & tongs, parents, zoom club & young is a world

[@supercudaone]

Top 5 album by a Top 5 band. Listen to The album that scared the world the first album "Black Sabbath" by Black Sabbath. listen to "the rest of the Paranoid album" also the Never Say Die album "Junior's Eyes" "Over To You" "Swinging The Chain"

[@jasonrichardson1208]

I think the song itself is a metaphor for " a trip ". The different tempos represent the different stages of the eventual assent into death through drug use. Just my interpretation.

[@scottcolman9757]

This is about heroine it was a drug many in Nam got hooked on. Snowblind was about cocaine. Sweet leaf well you can guess that. These tunes were act anti-drug telling the ultimate demise of the users.

[@raydotzler9117]

Electric Funeral 🔥🤘🔥

[@tanyablalock7186]

The best song Geezer Butler and Bill Ward song yo👊

[@chrishickey7502]

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.

[@daveswallow8351]

Spot on, heroin addiction

[@waynestumbo2408]

about Heroin

[@shspurs1342]

It about USA soldiers who were coming back from Vietnam. They stoped of in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. Butler saw them so he wrote this song. It was some of the soldiers who had PTSD.

[@johndrake3472]

What’s groover than the bass and drums at the beginning of this?! Come on now - you know it can’t be touched.

[@jllucas39]

👍✌

[@chewiebacka4377]

You cut it off too soon. The base actually drifts off then comes to a sustained note to end the song...your heart beat analogy right on.

[@luisutil9070]

Yeah, this guy isn't fake 😂 ....