Legendary BLACK SABBATH bassist Geezer Butler spoke with IGN recently about a number of topics including the newly-released Classic Albums: Black Sabbath – Paranoid. Here are a few excerpts from the chat:

IGN: What sort of special features and behind-the-scenes material should the fans expect to see?

Butler: "Well it's each of us talking about the experiences - that we can remember anyway - and me and Tony [Iommi] play bits of some of the bass lines. Tony plays the guitar stuff and it sort of blends in with the actual studio recordings. And we go through each track individually, just talking about what we can remember of it, who did what and that kind of thing."

IGN: It's been 40 years since Paranoid was recorded. What's your perspective on that album now, looking back years later?

Butler: "I wish that I had remembered more about it, but it was all done in such a rush back then because before the first album was even out we had to do these shows in Germany and Switzerland, and they each had us do six to eight hours every day. We only had about an hour's worth of stuff back then because most of Paranoid was actually written on stage in these little clubs we used to do for eight hours a day. We wrote most of the Paranoid album while we were on tour before the first album even came out, and then we took about five days out and recorded Paranoid, then [we] went back on the road."

IGN: 'Paranoid' and 'War Pigs' are both tracks on that album. Originally the title of Paranoid was actually going to be War Pigs, named after that track. How exactly did that change come about?

Butler: "Well we were gonna call the album War Pigs and that's where the record company came up with that stupid album cover... that none of us liked. We didn't have any say in anything back then. So the record company came up with that album cover thinking the album was going to be called War Pigs, and 'Paranoid' (the song) was a last minute thing. We needed three or four minutes more for the album, and we quickly wrote 'Paranoid' as a throwaway song, and when the record company heard it they thought it was the strongest song on the album. So they made us change the name of the album to Paranoid."

Read the entire interview here.