"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.

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  • "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.
  • Electric Funeral on B-puolen avauskappale Black Sabbathin levyllä Paranoid. Kappale alkaa raskaalla, naukuvalla riffillä jossa käytetään paitsi kitarassa myös bassossa normaalia enemmän wahwah-pedaalia. Sanoitus on Geezer Butlerin kolkkoa näkyä tulevaisuudesta. Kappale on aikakaudelleen eli jo lähestyvälle hippiajan lopulle (1970) tyypillinen näkemys ydintuhosta, jonka pelättiin - ei niin vahvasti kuin kymmenisen vuotta aiemmin - odottavan aivan nurkan takana: luottamus siihen, että korkeampi mahti estää tuhon viime hetkellä, paistaa viimeisestä säkeistöstä vahvana - aivan kuin ydinkauhu paistaa ensimmäisestä.
  • Electric Funeral è una canzone heavy metal del gruppo britannico Black Sabbath, contenuta nell'album Paranoid pubblicato nel 1970. Il testo racconta di una guerra nucleare e delle sue conseguenze ed è quindi tematicamente molto vicino a "War Pigs", rispetto alla quale risulta essere però più oscura a livello di liriche. La canzone non è stata mai suonata dal vivo prima del 1977, dopo di che non fu più eseguita fino al Reunion Tour. Della canzone sono state fatte delle cover dai Pantera, dai Soulfly, dagli Iced Earth, dai Brutality (nell'album When the Sky Turns Black) e dagli Eternal (in seguito diventati Electric Wizard) sull'EP Lucifer's Children. La canzone è anche inclusa nel "Black Sabbath Medley" contenuto nell'album Ancient Dreams dei Candlemass. Alla canzone fanno riferimento Beavis and Butt-head in molti degli episodi della serie animata.
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  • "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.
  • Electric Funeral on B-puolen avauskappale Black Sabbathin levyllä Paranoid. Kappale alkaa raskaalla, naukuvalla riffillä jossa käytetään paitsi kitarassa myös bassossa normaalia enemmän wahwah-pedaalia. Sanoitus on Geezer Butlerin kolkkoa näkyä tulevaisuudesta.
  • Electric Funeral è una canzone heavy metal del gruppo britannico Black Sabbath, contenuta nell'album Paranoid pubblicato nel 1970. Il testo racconta di una guerra nucleare e delle sue conseguenze ed è quindi tematicamente molto vicino a "War Pigs", rispetto alla quale risulta essere però più oscura a livello di liriche. La canzone non è stata mai suonata dal vivo prima del 1977, dopo di che non fu più eseguita fino al Reunion Tour.
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