Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Iron Man by Black Sabbath

Today's Metal Track a classic from Black Sabbath's 1970 album Paranoid. Iron Man has one of the most iconic riffs in all of heavy metal. Surprisingly the song was not connect in any way to the comic book character that originated 7 years prior to the release of this song. However, the band and song were later featured in the Iron Man and Avengers films. In the former, an instrumental version is included in the credits and in the latter, Tony Stark can be seen sporting a Black Sabbath T-Shirt.

Instead, the song is about a man who travels to the future, witnesses the apocalypse, and returns to the present to warn mankind. On the way back he is caught in a magnetic field where he is turned into steel which leaves him mute. He is unable to warn people and is ignored and mocked to the point where he becomes angry and seeks revenge on mankind.