Begging mercy for their sins”.ĥ0 Top Political Songs, “The lead track to the album (Paranoid) is the crushing 'War Pigs', an anti-war anthem that elegizes the pointless deaths of millions of soldiers as the politicians responsible profit off of their sacrifice. Poisoning their brainwashed minds”Īnd then, “Day of judgement, God is calling. In the fields the bodies burning, As the war machine keeps turning. This is evident in lyrics “Generals gathered in their masses. Instead of black magic and satanic ritual, the song is actually about the Vietnam War and consequently, judgment day for war-hungry politicians. I left home a week after and never went back.” Thomas, Songfacts. He barreled into the room, grabbed the vinyl off the turntable, yelled about demons and witches and Black Sabbath and smashed my new record on the table. I was listening to this album in my room one day and all he heard from the other end of the house was "just like witches at black masses". “I'll never forget a confrontation with my Dad over this song. 'War Pigs', from the explosive 1970 album Paranoid, was no exception.įocused on words throughout the song like “witches at black masses” and “Satan laughing spreads his wings”, War Pigs was often thought to represent the band’s so-called fascination with death and destruction. Their fierce reputation as the world’s first heavy metal band often caused misrepresentation when it came to the true meaning of their song lyrics. However, ‘peace-loving’ is probably not often used to describe Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward.
We were the last hippie band – we were into peace.”īlack Sabbath has been called many things – satanic, dark, evil, sick and twisted. We’d get invitations to play witches’ conventions and Black Masses in Highgate Cemetery. Ozzy Osbourne: “We couldn’t conjure up a fart.
Rolling Stone’s David Fricke asked Ozzy Osbourne in 2002: “Were you guys interested in black magic? Even a little bit?” takes an indepth look at the BLACK SABBATH classic 'War Pigs'.
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