Long Burn the Fire is the second studio album by the Detroit rock band, Black Merda..released by Chess Records subsidiary Janus in 1972.

Robert Christgau regarded [it] as a "follow-up" to.. There's a Riot Goin' On and went on to say:

"No more riots here than with Sly, or course [sic]—just self-hate, misogyny, desperate poverty, and senseless violence, as out-of-tune voices declaim strangely catchy tunes over loitering funk patterns and jagged guitar. 'Sometimes I wish I'd never been born,' they announce flatly, and they can really get flat. But the most surreal passage comes toward the close of 'My Mistake,' when 'I should have killed her instead' (author's note: of the friend he caught having sex with her), horrifying enough as a surprise endline, is transformed into a little piece of art-funk, repeated amid various instrumental configurations by an off-key chorale that sounds positively transported."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcBAMCY8xyI&list=PLTZAm8dpnYJ1EmXB51-T95mjMXbkL3K-K&index=1

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Black Merda is the self-titled debut album by the Detroit rock band Black Merda. It was released in 1970 by Chess Records.

Originally The Soul Agents, backing up an array of Motown and Brunswick acts and performing as Edwin Starr’s permanent backing band. They played on “Twenty Five Miles.” and “War.”. Subsequently they started listening to at some point they got the Hendrix, Cream and The Who and changed direction – they have become known as the first all black Rock band.

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