{"id":116979,"date":"2025-09-27T11:51:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T16:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=116979"},"modified":"2025-09-27T11:51:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T16:51:48","slug":"judas-priest-debut-new-black-sabbath-war-pigs-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=116979","title":{"rendered":"JUDAS PRIEST &#8211; Debut New Black Sabbath &#8220;War Pigs&#8221; Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">JUDASPRIEST have dropped an updated version of their cover of Black Sabbath\u2019s classic \u201cWar Pigs,\u201d now featuring posthumously released vocals from the late Ozzy Osbourne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">While Judas Priest were unable to take part in the July 5th \u2018Back To The Beginning\u2019 farewell celebration for Osbourne and Black Sabbath\u2014due to prior touring obligations with The Scorpions\u2014the band instead issued their own cover of \u201cWar Pigs\u201d on July 2nd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Longtime friend and peer Rob Halford revealed just how deeply Osbourne\u2019s passing on July 22nd affected him, telling Talkin\u2019 Rock with Meltdown that he \u201ccurled up in a ball and bawled\u201d for hours after receiving the news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Proceeds from the single in the UK will benefit both The Glenn Tipton Parkinson\u2019s Foundation\u2014established by Judas Priest\u2019s guitarist after stepping down from live duties in 2018 following his Parkinson\u2019s diagnosis\u2014and Cure Parkinson\u2019s, a charity personally chosen by Osbourne for proceeds from the \u2018Back To The Beginning\u2019 show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"War Pigs (Charity Version)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fEdcLz17398?list=PLWdfv5PPq40-vGOHBuq6fziUOzAVrJtC6\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUDASPRIEST have dropped an updated version of their cover of Black Sabbath\u2019s classic \u201cWar Pigs,\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116982,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116979\/revisions\/116982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}