Lamb Of God have launched a canopy of Black Sabbath‘s traditional Kids Of The Grave. The one arrives simply hours after the band completed a three-song set at Sabbath’s Again To The Starting present in Birmingham with the identical track.
“Lamb of God being invited to carry out with Black Sabbath at their ultimate present is without doubt one of the best honours of our profession,” says guitarist Mark Morton. “As an providing to the celebration, we’ve recorded our tackle their traditional Kids Of The Grave, a protest track with lyrics which might be as related as we speak as they had been in 1971 when the unique was launched.
“Black Sabbath invented heavy metallic and in doing so, they modified the world. This style that they created brings immeasurable pleasure to followers everywhere in the world. We’re so grateful to have the heavy metallic neighborhood to name our dwelling, and so grateful to Black Sabbath for the present of their music that they’ve given to all of us.”
“Within the ’70s, individuals had been simply beginning to realise about air pollution,” Geezer Butler informed Songfacts in 2024. “Local weather change and that form of stuff. It was proper originally of that, and it was a track about how we’re all going to be kids of the grave if we do not do one thing in regards to the setting.”
Along with Lamb Of God, the Again To The Starting present featured the ultimate dwell appearances of Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne, with all-star help from Metallica, Weapons N’ Roses, Slayer, Device, Pantera, Gojira, Alice In Chains, Halestorm, Anthrax, Rival Sons and Mstodon, plus two units from one-off supergroups.
