Black Sabbath
(Português)
War Pigs é uma canção da banda britânica de heavy metal Black Sabbath. Abre o álbum Paranoid, de 1970, e tornou-se o terceiro single do mesmo. É uma das canções mais conhecidas da banda.
A letra é sobre líderes que instigam a guerra (os Porcos da Guerra do título), causando morte e destruição, mas que terminam recebendo seu castigo. Originalmente a canção chamava-se Walpurgis em referência à Noite de Santa Valburga (ou Noite das Bruxas), tendo seu título sido mudado mais tarde.
Trata-se de uma canção anti-guerra mas, ao invés da atmosfera festiva hippie típica da época, a letra sombria e os riffs de Tony Iommi dão à canção uma atmosfera pesada, típica da banda.
(English)
The original title of "War Pigs" was "Walpurgis", dealing with the witches' sabbath.]Vertigo Records felt that this version of the song might be construed as "too Satanic" and asked the band to alter the lyrics. The title, lyrics, and theme were subsequently changed during the recording of the Paranoid album to take on an anti-war stance. 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 4/26/70.
Drummer Bill Ward's first memory of performing the song was at The Beat Club inSwitzerland in 1968. The band were required to play multiple sets every night and had little material in their repertoire at that point, so they would perform lengthy jam sessions to fill out the sets. Iommi has said that "War Pigs" originated from one of those live jam sessions. Bassist Geezer Butler, who composed the song's lyrics, has said that the song was "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", while Osbourne, Black Sabbath's lead singer, has stated that the group "knew nothing about Vietnam. It's just an anti-war song."
The song's ending was sped up by producer Rodger Bain and engineer Tom Allom. The band knew nothing of this decision until the album was released.
