The song is taken from their forthcoming 13th album 'Resistance Is Futile', set to arrive on 6th April 2018 via Columbia/Sony. Pre-order your copy here.
On April 15 1989, a human crush occurred at Hillsborough football stadium in Sheffield, during the 1989 FA Cup semi-final between Nottingham Forrest and Liverpool. 96 attendees were killed, and 766 were injured, making it the worst disaster in the history of British sports.
About hte track, frontman James Dean Bradfield said "It’s about the ‘Justice For The Victims Of Hillsborough’ campaign. That campaign fought the entire British establishment to get to the truth, and they finally got there with their ruling.
“When the ruling came out of the High Court, we were just about to do a gig at the Liverpool Echo Arena, and Nick (Wire, bass guitarist) had a day down on the waterfront where he just took loads of Polaroids and wrote loads of poetry, as he does. Nick wrote this song in its entirety. [...] When he gets into the flow of doing a song on his own, it does just flow."
Watch the clip below.
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