>>126860528
I'm gonna hold the urge to insult you and assume you are being serious.
Not only metal,ALL "rock" music today is influenced by Sabbath to some degree, there is an argument to be made that they are the single most important band in the history of alternative/underground/heavy music.
I'm not saying they are the best band of all time, (although it's not a bad pick) but they have absolutely influenced all genres of metal. You clearly haven't listened to all their 70's stuff if you think otherwise, cause it's not only Paranoid.
Each album brought something new to the table that was a precursor for metal and music as a whole, it's ridicoulous
Fenriz from Darkthrone explaining how the notes from the song Black Sabbath are the basis a lot of what he/other people in the Black Metal scene made:
https://youtu.be/DQpMIR6RuaA
>>126861583
an example of proto-thrash metal along with:
https://youtu.be/X01Envh1kSA?list=PLo2VF3ux4qcbTzx1df---2oB2d07gkjFr
Paranoid Along with being a straight up 80's heavy metal song it's also a proto-punk song, that palm muted riff has been ripped off to death:
https://youtu.be/DQpMIR6RuaA
This song from Master of Reality sounds like what those melodic NWOBHM bands would eventually make :
https://youtu.be/qRdNG-8ehU8?list=PLo2VF3ux4qcbTzx1df---2oB2d07gkjFr
Not to mention a goddamn fucking breakdown written in 1973 at 3:19, you know a breakdown, that thing every scene hardcore kid tries to do in their basement the moment they pick up a guitar. PanterA influenced this aspect of hardcore a lot, guess what they listened to? Sabbath:
https://youtu.be/cYZE4vKDqzs?list=PLiN-7mukU_RGGAVaH5ALmykRYYfLaK3_N