Electric Funeral

Electric Funeral

Song infobox
Name = Electric Funeral
Artist = Black Sabbath
Album = Paranoid
Released = 1970
track_no = 5
Recorded =
Genre = Heavy metal
Length = 4:52
Writer =
Label = Vertigo (UK) Warner Bros. Records (US)
Producer = Rodger Bain
Chart position =
prev = "Iron Man"
prev_no = 4
next = "Hand of Doom"
next_no = 6
"Electric Funeral" was the fifth song off of 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, a fact complemented by an eerie main riff. The song did not appear in the live set until 1978, and then was not played again until the Reunion Tour.

The song was covered by Pantera on the tribute album, by Soulfly, as well as by power metal band Iced Earth on their "Melancholy EP", and death metal band Brutality on their album "When the Sky Turns Black". Beavis and Butt-head also do an air guitar imitation of the song riff in one 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.


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