Black Sabbath: War Pigs During The Vietnam War

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Black Sabbath was a band popular in the 1970’s who made primarily hard Rock and heavy Metal music. Their most famous album was Paranoid which features their top three most famous songs such as “War Pigs”, “Iron Man”, and “Paranoid”. The song that had resonated the most in young audiences during the decade was the song “War Pigs”. In this era the Vietnam War was taking place, by writing “War Pigs” it gave a path for the band to communicate their protest of the war. Due to the era in which the song was produced and the use of lyrics, one can properly assume that the song is based on the Vietnam War or just on war in general. At the time of the songs release the Vietnam War was in full swing, and became popular to the “silent majority”. The

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