"Walpurgis is sort of like Christmas for Satanists. And to me, war was the big Satan", said bassist and lyricist Geezer Butler. "It wasn't about politics or government or anything. It was Evil itself. So I was saying 'generals gathered in the masses / just like witches at black masses' to make an analogy. But when we brought it to the record company, they thought 'Walpurgis' sounded too Satanic. And that's when we turned it into 'War Pigs'. But we didn't change the lyrics, because they were already finished."
During this time period, national service had recently ended in the United Kingdom but with the Vietnam War still ongoing, many young men feared they'd be conscripted to fight in it. "That's what started this whole rebellion thing about not going to war for anybody", said Butler. "I was dreading being called up", the lyricist recalled.
Prior to its official release, the band often altered the lyrics significantly when performing it live. An example of this can be found on Ozzy Osbourne's compilation The Ozzman Cometh, which features an early version recorded by Black Sabbath for BBC Radio 1 on 26 April 1970. While Butler has said that "War Pigs" is "totally against the Vietnam War, about how these rich politicians and rich people start all the wars for their benefit and get all the poor people to die for them", vocalist Osbourne has stated that the group "knew nothing about Vietnam. It's just an anti-war song."
i loved this album, the one before and after too. But now, after all these years, i can only listen to Roots.
wonder how Sepultura would have evolved if Max was still a part of the group after that album :/
Israel and it's sponsor, U.S.A., are bombing people wherever and whenever but we just want to be "safe" from even the "bad AI" representations of "corpses"
"let them be unidentifiable unsafe slop, i have work to do here"
edit: your account is 2 years old and this is its only contribution to lemmy 🤔
@[email protected], please don't "put a nsfw blur on this image"
didn't U.S. end it's war with Japan with the same move. Nuclear bombing it's way to peace?
it's not ironic 😕 it's horrible
Donald Trump threatens to bomb Oslo too, if he's not awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. He gave an ultimate ultimatum of 2 weeks to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, after which, he truthed, he may or may not, with the help of the Genocidal Israel, turn Oslo into the Riviera of the Atlantic ocean.
Masonry is one of the oldest building crafts in the world. The construction of Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts, and medieval cathedrals are all examples of masonry. Early structures used the weight of the masonry itself to stabilize the structure against lateral movements. The types and techniques of masonry used evolved with architectural needs and cultural norms.
settings > privacy > phone number > who can see my number > nobody
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how many parking spaces are erased? 20?
apparently, in Paris, 1 in 3 households have cars ☞ https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/2012694#tableau-TCRD_001_tab1_departements
curiosity!
i'm a dead cat.
please tell/write me that they're not ticks
i wasn't able to see clearly at that moment but when i looked at the photo back home, i saw these. Only today we removed 2 ticks and it's becoming disturbingly regular. If these are ticks on only one dung beetle, we are damned :/
in 2 years of lurking on lemmy, this is the only "stuff like that nobody seems to care" which required your intervention!
go back to lurking