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Judas Priest Can’t Make It to Final Black Sabbath Show, So They Dropped a Killer ‘War Pigs’ Cover Instead
Judas Priest can't make it to Saturday's (July 5) final Black Sabbath show, so they honored Ozzy Osbourne's band with a killer 'War Pigs' cover.
So on Tuesday, Halford’s band did the next best thing: they posted their killer cover of Sabbath’s 1970 anti-war anthem “War Pigs,” complete with a slick performance video in which the group rip through the song’s thundering attack. Halford, dressed in his signature all-black studded leather, bellows the ominous song’s lashing of leaders who carelessly send their constituents to battle as they hide behind their desks in tribute to the 76-year old Osbourne and his original band. “Politicians hide themselves away/ They only started the war/ Why should they go out to fight?/ They leave that all to the poor/ Time will tell on their power minds,” Halford howls as bassist Ian Hill plucks out the song’s rumbling bottom and guitarists Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner serve up the 8-minute classic’s punishing riffs.
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