yo what's going on guys welcome to the channel my name is saeed i am doing another song reaction
today this is generally where i break down the music and lyrics of a song and offer up
my interpretations for what i'm hearing um i'm actually switching up genres today and trying
out some metal music but before we get into the actual song reaction i just wanted to highlight
my favorite comment from the last video i just did so this video was actually slightly different
content from what my channel usually produces it was on a mysterious disappearance of an adventurer
i've been fascinated with the story ever since i heard it and so i decided to do a little video on
it i've been getting some good feedback and so i highly recommend you go check it out
the video was left by mr rahmani who says he doesn't actually believe that michael
made it to shaw he thinks that with the two days of treading water he probably just died of the
exhaustive swim and i think he has a valid point it's very possible i mean without food and water
for two days and then having to swim 22 kilometers it's a fair point perhaps he just passed away from
the swim and great comment left by mahdi now to the actual song reaction we're doing today i am
covering war pigs by black sabbath this was due to mainly the recommendations i've been getting in
my comments and i've decided to start with black sabbath just due to the importance that the band
seems to have within metal music with the majority of fans of metal kind of looking at the band as a
foundational pillar to the genre of music and so i thought it'd be a great way to begin this
journey into metal in terms of what i'm expecting out of the track uh it's title being warpix and
it being metal i believe that it's gonna be a very intense track it's perhaps told from the
perspective of someone on a battlefield um also the album cover they didn't have single art at the
time um in terms of the album cover it's a super trippy album cover man i like it it seems like
a sort of dude hallucinating and seeing a samurai sword-wielding police officer chasing him which is
pretty crazy album cover to be fair um but these are all just initial expectations
um it could all change with the music so let's get into the music okay here we go
whoa listen to those guitars
okay i just want to stop at this i always give my super initial takes um whoa that sounds like the
beginning of uh what would be played in like the final cataclysmic battle of earth you know i feel
like those heavy heavy guitars being sort of like sirens in the background actually heard like a um
airaid horn being played just before i stopped it too man um super cool atmosphere being built here
again i sort of thought that maybe this would be like a track that soundtracks a um a battle
uh taking place whoops excuse me um it kind of sounds like that so far man in super intense
guitars really heavy it almost sounds like um
even like we're like watching an inferno or something like something is burning up almost
that's the sort of image that conjures up in my mind but let's keep this going
whoo
generals gathered in their masses
just like witches at black masses
in the fields of bodies burning
as the war machine keeps turning death and hatred to mankind
poisoning their brain wash my hands
okay that is how you introduce a theme to a track holy [ __ ] okay so just breaking down verse one
this is very clearly a anti-war song now i don't think it's just a track that is
supposed to be like um politically minded um however like if you take um
if you take certain parts of this um first verse
as the war machine keeps turning death and hatred to mankind poisoning their brainwashed minds
um saw the idea of um especially at the first part where he says generals gathered in their masses so
it seems like people have been sort of um tricked into believing that whatever this battle is is um
is good for them but it's poison it's not the truth um and again it this just sounds the way
they're building the atmosphere to whatever's about to happen next is expertly done um he sort
of sings his his bar his part and then a guitar comes in heavy to kind of accent whatever he's
just said so it's like an exclamation mark as the war machine keeps turning i love that great choice
all drum fills turn this on
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okay i i can't quite tell you know i'm not no music expert but are there two guitars being
played at the same time it seems like two guitars are being played at tandem where like one's doing
the foreground work and then another one comes in to kind of um accent whatever is being done so
like something a second guitar almost comes in each time and like
they're fighting for whatever sort of in the foreground which is such a cool concept in a
track that's called war pigs that they're kind of battling for whatever's in the primary sort of um
foreground of this instrumental i don't know how else to explain it also i should say
the uh writing that is part of these verses are so sort of descriptive man um i missed this line
in the first part i said uh in the fields the body is burning as the war machine keeps turning
they only started the war why should they go out and fight they all leave that to the poor
yeah clearly a anti-war uh message being sung here and um i guess the lead thing is called ozzy
osborne he's got this really um interesting way interesting voice it sounds like a um i don't know
how else to describe it except for like um sort of a madman almost uh i don't i don't know if that
makes sense it's like um the singings of a crazy uh crazy man but it sounds so perfect on this
uh instrumental uh his voice kind of infers a lot of dread almost uh it's brilliant it's brilliant
yeah i'd say like a man who's lost his mind is a probably a better way to say it than a
crazy man a man who's lost his mind maybe um perhaps he's he's playing a performance of um
someone who's been in war for for a long time i'm not too sure but it's a brilliant delivery on what
is a um sort of heavy anti-i don't say anti-war song but it's built the theme of war up very well
oh turn this up
maybe
oh my lord
oh wow what the [ __ ] did i just hear
i'm sweating i'm literally sweating holy [ __ ] um that is one of the craziest solos i've ever heard
that any if there's any potential musicians watching that is how you build the atmosphere up
to a climax um i mean look we're not all the way through this track i'm not sure if that's
the actual climax but to a like important part of the song the way they built that up
the image that i have in my head after what i've just heard from the two verses is like
these two sections were almost the pre-battle you know where like the generals give their
war cries before the fight so like this is like um the general was delivering this just before
his guys the good guys went out to fight whoever these war pigs are who have set up this terrible
war and just as kind of aussie says wait till their judgment day comes like this is what would
be playing in my mind for like the final battle of like um a great movie or something like that um
just a brilliant climactic moment and as i said the two guitar i think it's two guitars man it's
like they're coming in and out weaving into each other weaving out of each other it's so
so well done man so well done that guitar solo has me [ __ ] sweating
now in darkness world stops turning
what a line where the body's burning
no more war pigs
the day of judgment god is calling
i love i love the oh i'm getting a call sorry excuse me um i love the way that they i don't
i think they're called guitar licks or like accents or i don't know what to call it but
he says a statement and then the guitar comes in to x to put the exclamation point on it but they
don't do the same one every time they switch it up and like on one of the last ones that i just heard
it wasn't just a baba it's like he had another sort of
um feel i guess the guitar phil i don't know the terminology but he he switched up
laughing spreads his wings
oh my god
foreign
do
oh
uh what do you even say to that holy [ __ ] [ __ ] uh
yeah that was incredible incredible the way they ended the song it would seem like
it was like as aussie says you know like judgment day is calling judgment day comes it it really
sounded like the final battle of like um like good versus evil almost and the guitars played
like a pivotal role of setting up that theme where i believe it's two guitars we're like kind
of fighting with each other uh sort of dancing with each other almost man coming in and out
some of the actual imagery that they built up was absolutely brilliant this final line
satan laughing spreads his wings oh lord yeah and then it just kicked into like
two minutes of um guitars drums um atmosphere i mean what they did throughout the track was
kept things interesting it's a 7 minute and 55 7 minutes and 55 seconds long song but at every
point they took a chance to do something slightly different um they've done the same sort of guitar
accent so now we'll switch it up the drum fills they changed the guitar solos had different
parts to them um they would be two guitars weaving in and out and then it would just turn into almost
one guitar with a strong riff playing um just brilliant man they kept it interesting every every
point of the song and then you have the actual verses which are being sung so powerfully um just
a brilliant song man um i can totally see why a lot of fans point towards black sabbath being
foundational pillars to metal music because i can see this really stemming a whole sort of wave of
music like this it's so impactful so emotional um and once again like building towards a theme and
it's not exactly you could say it's a concept record you know it's a it's a song about war
and the way that every aspect of the music built to it the lyrics the voice the drums the way the
drums sounded like machine guns the battling of the guitars um the incredible bass line
wow what a song man absolute 10 out of 10 absolute 10 out of 10. two thumbs up
okay that's it for the song um song reaction i should say this is the little outro i do at the
end i've got people calling me i've got people coming into my room uh hopefully i'll be able to
able to edit around that um in terms of what i'll be doing next if you guys um let me know
in the comments this is this channel will be led by what people sort of uh want me to react to so
let me know what if there's actually any metal fans it'd be cool if you guys guided me
if if you can tell me more songs that are similar to this with this kind of impact and
instrumentation um i would be very very happy i'd be very very happy to listen to those songs
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