Mars, the Bringer of War

[markmatson]

Cool, but you left off the most important one ever, Black Sabbath! The entire invention of metal is playing Mars on the electric guitar.

/watch?v=akt3awj_Ah8#!

[themaelstrommephisto]

I have all these albums!

[theberzerker81]

Carcass' "Reek of Putrefaction" is another good example

[jancello]

Nice to see that someone else noticed ;) I about to do a very similar video !

[battousaiashe]

Would not surprised me at all if Nile and Savatage and Symp X all did it on purpose.

[OmegaRage]

'Who tends the fire' by Overkill is inspired by Bringer of War?

[Supaselig77]

you forgot the song Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath. That was the first Heavy metal song to copy mars.

[McSassin89]

i had no idea how widespread that riff was. I thought it was limited to diamond head and metallica

[joezumbie]

uh u forgot metallica am i evil

[Archangel3583]

@joezumbie Heh, good one.

[MindFreak2020202020]

@joezumbie Metallica just covered it from Diamond Head which is the version shown here. No point putting Metallica since it is the same version as Diamond Head.

[remnant24]

@joezumbie Which is a Diamond Head cover, which is already on the video.

[singletona082]

Never realized just how often the Mars sting was used.

[SonofBrummieDarkness]

Check out The Reign of Shemsu-Hor by Behemoth, too...

[Obelix5150]

Ahah, why's there a picture of Thin Lizzy at :39? :P

awesome video man.

[Wingle23]

Excellent stuff - thanks for this. Knew Symphony X's Divine Wings of Tragedy drew heavily on the main riff, but cool to hear all the others, too. FYI Brian May is reported as a big Holst fan and I think Queen's Leaving Home Ain't Easy (from Jazz) incorporates bits of Mars in the mid-section: not the main riff, but some of the phrases after that. Not that I'm bored or anything...! :-)

[Archangel3583]

@Wingle23 Glad you liked it :-)

[vequense]

you forgot one. the airship theme from super mario bros. 3!

[CloggedLacrimalGland]

@vequense Haha! Yeah!

[5523153976]

WHO TENDS THE FIRE!!!!!! OVERKILL RULEZ!!!!!

[nuttybollockz]

Massacre - dawn of eternity also has the mars riff.

[Archangel3583]

@nuttybollockz Thanks, I will check that out.

[umasbob]

Yep Nile...good ear...I didn't know this but yet own a few of these. cool

[ariesvids]

Also Rush "Jacob's Ladder", 1980.

[flamingvacuumcleaner]

Makes sense. Metal is the updated form of classic music. I know bach would have been a metal composer since he used organ to get distortion.

[floatingcompassmedia]

Where was children of the grave, the original song to borrow from mars. Still good.

[Archangel3583]

So many songs, and I forget the mother of them all...thanks for the reminder!

[CloggedLacrimalGland]

@Archangel3583 Haha! This is awesome, man! I never thought a lot of bands borrowed the Mars riff. Thanks!

[reeseisbunghole]

hell yeah, Children of the Grave!

[BGVassil]

I think Led Zeppelin were the first heavy metal band to cover this. They first played "Mars:The Bringer of War Live" on January 9, 1970 at the Royal Albert Hall. Awesome performance.

[RobDZeppelin]

@BGVassil Led Zeppelin wasn't heavy metal lol.

[Obelix5150]

@BGVassil They played pretty often actually as part of Dazed and Confused. On TSRTS, Page plays it as part of the bow solo, and later as well in a different key.

[jltl44]

i like how the nile riff sounds like

[Saturnome]

Ha! How fun. I found this video by looking for a metal version of Gustav Holst's piece :)

[DrummerMass]

I like metal, but I love the original the best. And you're right KomodoVistas.. it IS everywhere!

[6stringbender95]

Wow, this is awesome! I didn't even realize that Judas Priest snuck that one in there... Anyways, great video, and it was posted on my birthday! haha

[Archangel3583]

Great, I didn't have to buy you anything!

[kristen15144]

The bands ruined it by putting it in 4/4 instead of 5/4....but brutal still!!

[fleskip]

Symphony X putted it in 7/4 =p

[KomodoVistas]

Wow... the Mars "riff" is everywhere

[VoodooPriestess]

Wow this is actually quite fascinating.

[Archangel3583]

Thank you =)

[cavallodelmare]

STAY METAL!