SUBHUMANS (UK) - Internal Riot (sealed LP copy) (2019) Pirates Press/Bluurg Records (re-issue) on Traditional Black vinyl - limited to 600 copies. This is the band's 5th full-length studio album originally released in 2007.
 It’s been nine years since lead singer Dick Lucas and the Anarchist UK Punk band The Subhumans reformed for touring, and 20 years since the band released an album of new material. With Punk Rock all but squandered by the eyeliner-wearing MTV faithful, Internal Riot arrives just in time to remind us what a Punk band is supposed to sound like, rather than what they’re supposed to look like. 
The screaming jets and guitars in the beginning of “This Year’s War” make it clear that time hasn’t slowed The Subhumans down, as they sound angrier than ever. The moaning guitars and furious drumming sound like the blast of a well-timed bomb. The band delivers 13 songs in 41 minutes without leaving out a single target in Dick Lucas’ raspy assault.
Lucas paints his ugly picture of America with lines like “There’s war in the headlines, there’s war in the heads. The leaders will feed us ‘til we’re overfed.” His stories focus on the atrocities of war and violence, and instead of simply pointing out the problem like too many of the bands releasing political-tinted albums today, Lucas’s lyrics actually point to solutions.
The majority of the band’s social and political tirades discuss guns and bombs, but “Supermarket Forces” attacks the oversized grocery and department stores that impact local businesses. With Lucas screaming, “The price of all your favorite meals stays low, but now you can’t afford it,” one could assume he doesn’t do his shopping at Wal-Mart.
With a rich history embedded in the roots of punk rock, and a new album that proves that they haven’t lost their grasp on what’s happening in the world, SUBHUMANS have managed to stay relevant while showing today’s sugar-coated Punk bands what’s really going on.
Pirates Press Records – PPR253, Bluurg Records – Fish 50