As the opening repertoire of the influential Black Sabbath album "Paranoid", "War Pig" was originally called "Walpurgis". The night of Walpurgis was held on 30th April to celebrate the eve of the festival of St. Walpurga, the British missionary of Franciscan in the 8th century. It is regarded as a witch's meeting or a night on the Sabbath. The title of the outro of the instrument is "Luke's Wall".
Gize Butler said, this song is like - Hippie - about war - Black Sabbath is completely against it, especially the Vietnam War (then happened):
["The War Pig"] is completely responsible for how these wealthy politicians and wealthy people can start all wars for their benefit and let all the poor die for them I am against the Vietnam War.
Its existence is a type of music like Bob Dylan's "Fierce Rain Falling" or "With God on We Side". The Black Sabbath covered it with songs like "War Pig" and "Power Band", but Iron Maiden and Metallica also joined the rank. Even the punk movement clearly solves the nuclear problem, and the flow of pink Indians is a remarkable opponent. It penetrates even our video game; the "radiation" series includes the survivors of the nuclear dust cover to the wasteland, and the fun lover ratchet & crank condenses the bomb on a handheld grenade launcher. In "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2", if you end the game with tactical nuclear weapons, you will be rewarded for 25 consecutive murders.
As the opening repertoire of the influential Black Sabbath album "Paranoid", "War Pig" was originally called "Walpurgis". The night of Walpurgis was held on 30th April to celebrate the eve of the festival of St. Walpurga, the British missionary of Franciscan in the 8th century. It is regarded as a witch's meeting or a night on the Sabbath. The title of the outro of the instrument is "Luke's Wall".
In the 1970s, some famous songs from the UK protested the war, including "Peace Train" by Cat Stevens (1971) and "Black Pigs" by Black Sabbath (1970). The Sabbath also protested the environmental damage and explained the people who left the destroyed earth (including "Iron Man" "Entering the Boyd"). Renaissance added political repression as the theme of the protest, "Russian mother" is based on the lifetime of Ivan Jenisovich and added the 1974 album "Rotation turns" to "cold existence". The back side of the card. (About ecological destruction) and "black flame" (about Vietnam war)