September 13, 2025

Doors: 5:00 PM - Show: 8:00 PM

All Ages

Bottlerocket Presents...

PARANOID: Live Album Series

Bottlerocket Social Hall

1226 Arlington Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, 15210


Date & Time

Saturday, September 13, 2025

8:00 PM

Location

Bottlerocket Social Hall

1226 Arlington Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, 15210

We're saluting the Prince of Darkness with the Sabbath record that defined a band, a sound - hell, an entire genre. It's PARANOID, the second album from BLACK SABBATH and the one that convinced folks in September 1970 that the devil was real, and he played a mean electric guitar.


Just four months after their genre bending debut record hit shelves - Ozzy and Co. found themselves back in the studio. The songwriting was free and easy, springing out of improvised jams at their legendary live shows - and in quick succession the band found themselves stumbling upon the iconic fuzzy riffs of Paranoid, Iron Man, and Electric Funeral. They even got into the headspace to turn out the sublimely subdued Planet Caravan - a song that showcased Sabbath's true musical brilliance even a little Satanic Panic couldn't deny.


So - nine months after they had first created the very idea of "Heavy Metal", Paranoid hit the shelves. And the sirens that open War Pigs made it clear. The 60's were over. Grab a ticket for Altamont. Take the flowers out of your hair and shout at the devil. Or, as Ozzy said - "Geezer came up with these heavy duty lyrics about death and destruction. No wonder we never got any chicks at our gigs."


What better way to celebrate it all than LIVE, IN FULL, and IN ORDER - just like when you first dropped the needle on it all those years ago. Plus a few extras at the end too.


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