7 Heavy Metal Songs About Space Travel

7. Black Sabbath- Into The Void

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Despite long being reviled as satan-worshipping miscreants due to songs like the one that bears their name, much of Black Sabbath’s early catalog speaks to the frustration of their generation and devastation of an era, calling for the kind of love their hippie brethren did but acknowledging the reality of how little their cries got them.

Amid songs about drugs, depression, religion, greed and revolution exists one lambasting a grim future where the Earth has succumbed to the folly of man and the “sons of freedom” pursue new lives out among the stars, leaving the planet in its current state of “worry, hate and fear.”

Despite the gravity of leaving millions behind in what is essentially described as a hopeless hellscape, it is intended to be a song of hope, where starting over, per se, breeds the opportunity to found a world “where freedom waits” and the surviving individuals can experience “peace and happiness in every day.”