Blues And Heavy Metal In Black Sabbath's War Pigs

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Black Sabbath has an album called “Paranoid”. One of the songs on it is called “War Pigs”. “War Pigs” is heavily influenced by Blues and Heavy Metal. The song’s most prevalent instruments are the bass guitar and drums. Blues and Heavy metal music usually contains those instruments. This song is distinctly heavy metal though because it doesn’t contain a piano, like blues or rock. Blues music usually contained solos for certain instruments. “War Pigs” had bass guitar solos. Similar to how Paul Mccartney sung in Maxwell's Silver Hammer by the Beatles, Ozzy Osbourne sings for a few seconds and then stops. That continues for a little bit in both songs. “War Pigs” sounds dirty and contains many rifts. It also has a deep and distorted sound.

“War

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