Electric Funeral是Black Sabbath(黑色安息日)1970年的专辑Paranoid中的歌曲，最早听到Electric Funeral是在音乐天堂出的”盛世摇滚I”，在经过前两首温柔的Beatles之后，像恶魔咆哮一样的前奏开始了。作为最早的重金属，Electric Funeral与Metallica或是Megadeath的典型风格截然不同，没有电锯一样的rhythm和令人目眩的lead，所有金属乐的特点渗透在歌曲的骨子里而非形式上，Ozzy像厉鬼一样的流氓嗓音也比日后动辄就噬神，剖尸的死亡金属更加阴森，直达脑干的深处。
Black Sabbath在将近40年前就在将科技融入了歌曲，Electric Funeral描绘了由人类与电脑之间的斗争引发的核子战争的末日场面，“塑料花融化在太阳中，人类因辐射变成了碳块”，最终还是机器胜利了，“天空中闪耀着电子眼，地球笼罩在邪恶的翅膀下”，终结者们集合在索伦魔眼下的魔都。
Electric Funeral
Reflex in the sky warn you you’re gonna die
Storm coming, you’d better hide from the atomic tide
Flashes in the sky turns houses into sties
Turns people into clay, radiation minds decayRobot minds of robot slaves lead them to atomic rage
plastic flowers, melting sun, fading moon falls upon
dying world of radiation, victims of mad frustration
Burning globe of oxy’n fire, like electric funeral pyreBuildings crashing down to a cracking ground
Rivers turn to wood, ice melting to flood
Earth lies in death bed, clouds cry water dead
Tearing life away, here’s the burning payElectric Funeral
Electric Funeral
Electric Funeral
Electric FuneralAnd so in the sky shines the electric eye
supernatural king takes earth under his wing
Heaven’s golden chorus sings, Hell’s angels flap their wings
Evil souls fall to Hell, ever trapped in burning cells!
我很好奇这首歌的MV会是什么样，但只找到了现场的视频(又是个反手拿琴的家伙)，恍然大悟原来那时候MV还没出生呢。