Black Sabbath: 10 Most Underrated Songs

There's not much more that needs to be said about Sabbath's sophomore release Paranoid. Even though their debut was a proof of concept for metal music, the second outing proved to be their first huge success, with tracks like Iron Man and the title track still being celebrated to this day. However, a lot of people forget that Sabbath could cut much deeper than your average doom and gloom song.

Written around the concept of the Vietnam War, Hand of Doom is a nasty tale of the drug habits that occur within the service. When talking about the background of the song, Geezer Butler talked about the kind of graphic lifestyle you didn't see on the news, where soldiers would be abusing heroin just to hold on to their sanity during all the carnage.

Much like the drug of choice, the riff almost sneaks up on you, starting off slow and groovy before turning into this colossal piece of music washing over your eardrums. Even though Iommi typically gets put up front, the real star of this show is the rhythm section of Geezer Butler and Bill Ward, who keep everything low to the ground as you sink deeper into this demented abyss. At a time when Sabbath were looked at as the bastard children of hard rock, this track proved that there was some genuine genius at work behind the riffs.