Children of the Grave
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| "Children of the Grave" | ||
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| Song by Black Sabbath | ||
| from the album Master of Reality | ||
| Released | July 21, 1971 | |
| Recorded | Record Plant, Los Angeles, California | |
| Genre | Heavy Metal | |
| Length | 5:17 | |
| Label | Vertigo (UK) Warner Bros. Records (US) |
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| Writer(s) | Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward | |
| Producer(s) | Rodger Bain | |
| Master of Reality track listing | ||
| Embryo (3) |
"Children of the Grave" (4) |
"Orchid" (4) |
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.
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.
The band White Zombie covered "Children of the Grave" for the Black Sabbath tribute album Nativity in Black. Also, American band Racer X released a cover of the song that can be heard on the Japanese version of Technical Difficulties.
In System of a Down's "Boom" song, we can hear a break that heavily sounds like the one that's featured on "Children of the Grave".
