This is the debut album from the post- hardcore band “Enter Shikari” named “Take to the skies”

Enter Shikari as annoying as some people find them, sing about real subjects as apposed to “the girl next door”. The lead singer Rou, writes his lyrics about how the world is being destroyed and we’re all sitting back watching it happen. He also writes about rebellions between the people and our government. Some Lyrics to show this are :

“Each nation used to provide its country with security.
With factories providing arms for their country. Now multinational companies compete in the arms trade
to serve any customer, maximizing the money to be made.
So just as farms compete to provide fruit for other countries
so people can live to enjoy the taste of nature
National warehouses compete to provide arms around the world
to aid death
and all hell unfolds.

Our gracious queen
should grasp her crown
and take a good fucking swing at Blair and Brown
for leading her countries to illegal warfare
and trying to pass it off that we're doing 'cause we care”

The picture is quite hard to make out, but when looked at closely we can see we have the earth in right in the middle, surrounded by beasts and an Aztec. And according to Rou, “Shikari was a third generation Aztec”. There is also a crown sitting on the top, this goes along with the fact that a lot of his lyrics are about our monarchy. The face on the earth looks much like a skull to connote that the world is dead. And by the looks of it, it is the beasts surrounding it that have killed it; the beasts are basically representing us as people, and the government, destroying the world together by fighting over it.

Rou is trying to get the whole world to unite to tackle the troubles of the world through his music, the picture could be seen as all these different people and things coming together to unite. They basically talk about how this world is run by the most ignorant twats who will keep plunging the rest of us into darkness just for a few pieces of paper and numbers on a screen. We could've sorted all the worlds problems years ago, but we'd rather spend our time making sure we have a bigger TV than our mates.