Black Sabbath has shared a cover of their classic track “War Pigs” as recorded by hometown peers Judas Priest! The performance-style video went live on all of Black Sabbath’s socials today, along with a cross-posted to Judas Priest’s as well. Judas Priest is not appearing at the Black Sabbath/Ozzy concert this weekend. Continue reading
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Ozzy Osbourne took to social media today to attack rapper Kanye West for allegedly using a sample of a Black Sabbath track classic at a listening party for the rapper’s new album. West and Ty Dolla $ign hosted the listening party at the United Center in Chicago on Thursday (February 11) ahead of the Vultures album LP’s release and played a track that sampled Ozzy’s live performance of “War Pigs” from the Sabbath singer solo concert at the US Festival in 1983. Read Ozzy’s disgusted comments below. He called West and anti-semite and said he did not want to be associated with him.
From ‘War Pigs’ to the present day, metal and politics have gone hand in hand and Sacred Reich has never shied away from the subject. As far back as their Draining You of Life demo in 1986, the Arizona thrashers made it abundantly clear that fascism is bullshit, Nazis are the enemy, and that oppression in any form should not be tolerated. This steadfast opposition to dictatorship, corruption, and social injustice has served them well for over thirty years, but recently the band has found themselves in the unbelievable position of actually having to defend those views. Swamping their social media pages with insults and demands to “stop making everything political”, some of their so-called “fans” really seem to have missed the entire fucking point of Sacred Reich.