Electric Funeral

"Electric Funeral" is the fifth song from Black Sabbath's second album Paranoid, released in 1970. The song deals with nuclear war and its aftermath. While thematically similar to "War Pigs", the song lyrics are even darker, describing a nightmarish post-apocalyptic wasteland of irradiated, sub-human mutants living in a miserable, synthetic garden in constant and utter terror of nuclear fallout; a fact complemented by an eerie main riff. The song did not appear in the live set until 1977, and then was not played again until the Reunion Tour.

The song was covered by Pantera on the second Nativity in Black tribute album, by Soulfly, as well as by power metal band Iced Earth on their Melancholy EP, death metal band Brutality on their album When the Sky Turns Black, and the doom metal band Electric Wizard on their compilation album Pre-Electric Wizard 1989–1994. Beavis and Butt-head also do an air guitar imitation of the song riff in many of their episodes. It is part of Candlemass' "Black Sabbath Medley", which originally appeared on the Ancient Dreams album and has been a staple of the band's live set since. It was also covered by Cavalera Conspiracy for a tribute CD issued by UK metal magazine Metal Hammer. The song had also been covered by the Serbian doom metal band Svarog in 1995.