Rat Salad
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| “Rat Salad” | |||||
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| Song by Black Sabbath | |||||
| Album | Paranoid | ||||
| Released | 1970 | ||||
| Genre | Heavy Metal | ||||
| Length | 2:30 | ||||
| Label | Vertigo (UK) Warner Bros. Records (US) | ||||
| Producer | Rodger Bain | ||||
| Paranoid track listing | |||||
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"Rat Salad" is a two-and-a-half minute instrumental by Black Sabbath, from their 1970 album Paranoid. The song is structured similarly to Led Zeppelin's "Moby Dick" or Cream's "Toad" in that the most prominent feature is a drum solo by Bill Ward, bookended by guitar riffs by Tony Iommi.
Van Halen considered adopting the name "Rat Salad" early on in their career, until then-lead singer David Lee Roth suggested simply using "Van Halen."[citation needed] An early incarnation of the doom metal band Iron Man was known as Rat Salad for a time in the late 80s.
The song features on the B-side on the "Paranoid" single.
In 2006, the author Paul Wilkinson released the book, "Rat Salad", a critical analysis of Black Sabbath's first six albums.
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