My War - Black Flag

There was a substantial delay between Black Flag's first and second studio albums thanks to disagreements with the record company, but the equally pioneering 'My War' was well worth the wait, and remains one of the most inventive hardcore punk albums of all time - if it can even be classified so stringently. There's a much greater emphasis on musicianship here than on the angry 'Damaged,' once again stemming mainly from Henry Rollins and Greg Ginn (who plays both guitar and bass on this album, the latter being credited to the fictitious Dale Nixon), and the band's experiments with a slower, draining style of doom metal would subsequently influence an entire ...