The Lords of the New Church “The Lords of the New Church” 1982/2014 limited edition reissue on gold vinyl (this one is 075 of 500). The debut album of the goth/punk supergroup (Stiv Bators of The Dead Boys, Brian James of The Damned, Dave Tregunna of Sham 69 and Nick Turner of The Barracudas) reached #3 on the UK indie chart. “Leather-vested vigilantes with dark lyrics musing from religion to politics,” the Lords deliver scathing commentary to a dark and danceable beat. “Open Your Eyes” is particularly poignant:

Video games train the kids for war. Army chic in high-fashion
stores. Law and order’s done their job. Prisons filled while
the rich still rob. Assassination politics. Violence rules
within’ our nation’s midst. Well ignorance is their power tool.
You’ll only know what they want you to know. The television
cannot lie. Controlling media with smokescreen eyes. Nuclear
politicians picture show. The acting’s lousy but the blind don’t
know. They scare us all with threats of war. So we forget
just how bad things are. You taste the fear when you’re all
alone. They gonna git’cha when you’re on your own. The silence
of conspiracy. Slaughtered on the altar of apathy. You gotta
wake up from your sleep. ‘Cause meek inherits earth…six feet
deep.
Open your eyes see the lies right in front of ya.
Open your eyes…..