Black Fucking Flag

Black Flag are one of my favorite bands, right behind the Stooges who hold that elusive number one spot. That may say a lot of things about me but I can't fight it and I don't want to; they're fucked up, they're aggressive, they're intense, they're sloppy, they're all over the place, they sing about depression and getting drunk and betrayal. They are everything a 15 year old boy can relate to and the day I bought Damaged and Raw Power was the most awe inspiring record buying experience I've yet to have. But My War is a whole other beast of a record. It marks the change from Ramones-inspired hardcore band to the Sabbath-inspired metal band. It was gooood. They put out record like the aforementioned My War and In My Head, while bands they inspired were putting out third-rate hardcore still. If you don't own those records you 1. are a pussy, 2. are a poser or 3. couldn't persuaded your friend to let you hold them. Any way you look at it you need these records. Greg Ginn made this band; people talk of how angry Henry Rollins sounds on the records but Ginn wrote the words and better yet he wrote the killer riffs behind the words. He plays guitar like a mad man and in complete juxaposition to his nerdy look. At times he's not even playing notes just noise and feedback but it's scarier than any of the "punk rock" out there today. He even made number 99 on Rolling Stones' 100 Greatest Guitarists. He was a shitty label owner though and he failed to pay such legenday acts as Husker Du and Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr who were all on his SST label. But forget all that bullshit because its the music that matters and when the music is this good you don't need hype, which is weird because I just spent all that time hyping them up.
You can skip all the shit above this if you don't want to read my weird Lester Bangs wannabe writing. And get right to the music. This is a unreleased demo for "My War" which the band cut while they were held up in court because of legal battle with their label, which you can read about somewhere else. This features legenday Danzig drummer Chuck Biscuits; it's their only recorded work with him behind the kit.

My War Demo