Children of the Grave
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| Song by Black Sabbath | |||||
| 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 | Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward | ||||
| Producer | Rodger Bain | ||||
| Master of Reality track listing | |||||
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| Single by White Zombie from the album Nativity in Black: A Tribute to Black Sabbath |
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| Released | 1994 | |||||||||||||
| Format | CD single | |||||||||||||
| Recorded | 1994 | |||||||||||||
| Genre | Alternative Metal | |||||||||||||
| Length | 5:50 | |||||||||||||
| Label | Columbia Records | |||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Geezer Butler Tony Iommi Ozzy Osbourne Bill Ward |
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| Producer | Bryan Carlstrom White Zombie |
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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. It is notable for its chugging, which largely contributes to the song being a headbanger's anthem. Also its C#-tuned riffs and driving drumming from Bill Ward. 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.
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".
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[edit] Cover Versions
American band Racer X released a cover of the song that can be heard on the Japanese version of Technical Difficulties. The song has been covered by German power metal band Grave Digger.
[edit] White Zombie cover
The band White Zombie covered "Children of the Grave" for the Black Sabbath tribute album Nativity in Black. It was later released as a promo single in 1994. It is the first White Zombie release featuring Terry Date who would later produce the band's bestselling album Astro-Creep: 2000. It was also the last release to have Phil Buerstatte playing the drums as he would be kicked out of the band later that year.
Contains the following vocal sample: "In Los Angeles, 1969, they shot, stabbed, and bludgeoned nine people to death committing one of the most heinous crimes in history.", a reference to the Tate/La Bianca killings by Charles Manson and the Family in 1969.
[edit] Single Track Listing
- Children of the Grave - 5:49
- Children of the Grave (Edit) -3:50
[edit] Personnel
- Phil Buerstatte - Drums
- Bryan Carlstrom - Producer
- Terry Date - Mixing
- Sean Yseult - Bass
- J. - Guitar
- Rob Zombie - Vocals, Lyricist
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