"Hand of Doom" | |
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Song by Black Sabbath | |
from the album Paranoid | |
Released | 18 September 1970 |
Genre | Heavy metal |
Length | 7:08 |
Label | Vertigo |
Songwriter(s) | Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward, Ozzy Osbourne |
Producer(s) | Rodger Bain |
"Hand of Doom" is a song by the English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, originally appearing on their second album Paranoid, released in 1970.
The song was conceived after the band had observed a growing number of US soldiers arriving in England from the Vietnam War in the late 1960s with severe drug addictions. [1] The song paints an unflattering picture of hard drug use for the purpose of self-medication. The lyrics were written by Geezer Butler while the music is credited to the entire band.