The Hall of Judgement: Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Daniel has requested that this release be submitted into the Hall of Judgement.

Request: Daniel would like to see Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" album removed from The Guardians so that it resides solely in The Fallen under the Stoner Metal genre.

This change will remove the Heavy Metal genre from the release.

Member comment: "During my recent research for the 'Roots of Metal Project' we're currently running, I proved something to myself that I'd long suspected to be the case. Black Sabbath's 'Paranoid' album simply doesn't sit all that well alongside other supposed 'heavy metal' releases as it sounds very different to the Iron Maidens & Judas Priests. After genre-tagging each individual track it became clear to me that the general tendency to want to label 'Paranoid' as a heavy metal/hard rock hybrid isn't correct. These were my track-by-track taggings:

1. War Pigs - Stoner Metal

2. Paranoid - Heavy Metal

3. Planet Caravan - Psychedelic Folk

4 Iron Man - Traditional Doom Metal

5. Electric Funeral - Traditional Doom Metal/Stoner Metal

6. Hand of Doom - Stoner Rock

7. Rat Salad - Heavy Psych

8. Fairies Wear Boots - Heavy Psych

As you can see, I've only tagged a single track as Heavy Metal which led to me posting a Hall of Judgement entry to have 'Paranoid' added to The Fallen under the Stoner Metal genre. As that poll has subsequently been successful, I'd now like to move ahead with the second half of my proposed change by having 'Paranoid' removed from the Guardians where I don't feel it should rightfully belong. Three of the four songs I've tagged as metal fall into genres encompassed by The Fallen rather than The Guardians & there's a significant psychedelic rock component that doesn't sit well with your classic heavy metal sound. Stoner Metal is defined as 'combines elements of Doom Metal with elements of Psychedelic Rock and Blues Rock to create a melodic yet heavy sound' & that seems to be far more appropriate than the heavy metal definition of 'heavier outgrowth of Hard Rock featuring greater distortion and intensity along with lesser Blues influences' as far as I can see. Please vote YES to see 'Paranoid' removed from The Guardians & the Heavy Metal genre so that it can reside solely in The Fallen under Stoner Metal."

NOTE: Only members of The Guardians &/or The Fallen could vote on this judgement.