Bug Central are a 3 piece anarcho punk band from London who formed in 1996. They've just released a new 8 track 10" on Grow Your Own Records titled And The Fires Begin. It's just one of a trio of impressive new releases by the label (the others being a vinyl version of Pedagree Skum's 2013 Nightmares And Screams album and a repressing of The System's Dogs Of War ep) and you can get it on vinyl and cd here : https://anthraxuk.bandcamp.com/album/and-the-fires-began
It's a typical Grow Your Own Release, quality protest music covering subjects such as imperialism, part time veganism, economical war, Antifa etc etc etc.... I don't usually mention artwork but I will this time around, it's very striking. Horrifying but at the same time a thing of beauty.
This is the title track, it's called The Fires Began...
Your top politician is a rich politician
So feel to relax, you’ve just been taxed
We’re dying to live but life is a game
And there’s no last name it’s a loaded game
I looked in your eyes
And they were as black as my heart
I should’ve realised then
This is not a good start
And then the fires began
And the government sang
“We can do as we please”
And the rich all agreed
Stick figures on a suicide note
From the privileged few
With their hands on your throat
Violent technology is your philosophy
Warmonger, poor maker
Not in my name
I looked in your eyes
And they were as black as my heart
I should’ve realised then
That we’re dead from the start
Then the fires began
And the government sang
“We can do as we please”
And the rich all agreed
It’s economical war!
