Children of the Grave is a song by Black Sabbath from their 1971 album Master of Reality. The song lyrically continues with the same themes brought on by War Pigs and Electric Funeral from Paranoid. This article is about the British heavy metal band. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... Master of Reality is a heavy metal album by the rock band Black Sabbath, released in 1971 (see 1971 in music). ... War Pigs is an anti-war song by British heavy metal rockers Black Sabbath from their 1971 album, Paranoid. ... Electric Funeral was the fifth song off of Black Sabbaths second album Paranoid, released in 1970. ... Paranoid is the breakthrough second album by British heavy metal band Black Sabbath, released in 1970; it soon topped the British music charts. ...

Even though it is lyrically a little more optimistic than War Pigs, it sounds even more monolithic and scary. The song is very popular and well-known with Black Sabbath fans and has been featured on several greatest hits and live albums. As well as being performed by Black Sabbath in Concert, in its various incarnations, Ozzy Osbourne performed it in concert many times as a solo artist. A notable version of the song was performed by Ozzy and Randy Rhoads, which had been placed on Ozzy's live album Tribute. War Pigs is an anti-war song by British heavy metal rockers Black Sabbath from their 1971 album, Paranoid. ... Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne John Michael Osbourne (born December 3, 1948 in Aston, Birmingham, England), known as Ozzy Osbourne, was the lead singer of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath and is also a popular solo artist and reality television star. ... Randall William Randy Rhoads (December 6, 1956 – March 19, 1982) was an American virtuoso guitarist, considered to be one of the greatest rock guitarists ever. ... Tribute is a live album by Ozzy Osbourne. ...

The band White Zombie covered this song for the Black Sabbath tribute album Nativity in Black. White Zombie was an American Groove metal band named after the 1932 film White Zombie, which starred Bela Lugosi. ... Nativity in Black is the name of a series of Black Sabbath tribute albums that came out in the 1990s and 2000s. ...

In System of a Down's "Boom" song, we can hear a break that heavily looks like the one that's featured on "Children of the Grave". System of a Down (sometimes referred to as S.O.A.D., or System) is an alternative metal band from Hollywood, California that formed in 1995. ...

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