Always keep young and anxious, Black Flag is a model of pure punk rock. With the improvisation and repetition of heavy metals, fast drums and lyrics full of urban abuse, the black flag is simply an aggressive machine. If you know them better, you will find that they are not gentle at all.
The idea of setting up the Black Flag Band came from Greg Silver, who is a slow musician with a keen sense of business and profound musical skills. He became the guitarist of Balck Flag, and thus established the famous SST record-which was regarded as the position of hard core rock in Southern California for many years. Kim's guitar playing is an out-and-out attack, plus some strange guitar repetition, which makes the British punk leaders of the same period learn from the black flag modestly. The lyrics of the band are full of punk youth's decadence, social complaints and satisfaction with their own social values.
198 1 year, the band started its journey as a hardcore punk model band, invited Kadena as a full-time rhythm guitarist, and invited henry rollins, the owner of the ice cream shop, who was a loyal fan and financial sponsor of the band in the early days. With the arrival of Rawlings, Kim can devote himself to the development of record companies. With Jin's efforts, Black Flag released more than ten albums in five years. Rollins participated in the creation of the album My War, and then the band created the album Family with Rollins' poems. Rawlings' lyrics reconcile aggression with his intelligence, which makes the new and old albums of the band very different in style.
The real golden age of American punk was in the hardcore era in the early 1980s. From a musical point of view, hardcore is just more extreme punk rock, more messy, noisier and more rigid. But the band of this era expanded punk music into an all-out sport for the first time. Their influence is also far-reaching than that of the CBGB era. Its aesthetic way was also carried forward by later torrent metal, speed metal, death metal, grindcore, junk music, alternative metal, punk revival movement and even the whole alternative rock music circle, which finally contributed to the mainstream of junk music and punk revival in the 1990s.
The black flag was undoubtedly the best representative at that time. They not only maintained the consistent momentum of punk, but also integrated jazz, heavy metal, noise rock and other styles to create a fuller musical atmosphere, becoming the first hard-core punk band with far-reaching influence in American punk history. They not only defined their own hard-core aesthetics, but also found the perfect combination of punk and heavy metal, which laid a solid foundation for torrent metal and punk metal in the future. Black Flag's complex musical elements, bohemian experimental colors and poetic lyrics became famous in the 1980s and became the most philosopher-like hardcore band in underground music at that time.
198 1, Black Flag is very dissatisfied with the unicorn's ban on the album "Damage" on the grounds that the content is too dangerous and vulgar. In a rage, Black Flag set up its own SST company to release this hardcore classic. As a result, while the album was marveled as Dawn of the Underground World, the band was taken to court by Kirin Company, and was caught in a protracted lawsuit. The band is even forbidden to use its name and logo at this stage. But this matter has no effect on the black flag. They went on a crazy tour for two years, and even secretly released a rough and carefully selected double album "Everything turns black" at the peak. God has eyes. 1983, Kirin Company declared bankruptcy, and the lawsuit was finally dropped. Perhaps in order to catch up with the last time, the band became incredibly prolific from 1984. By 1985, * * had completed 9 albums including My War, Family Man, Slip in, Live '84, Loose Nut and The Process of Elimination, and Black Flag's career reached its peak.
During this period, Black Flag not only achieved unprecedented success in music, but more importantly, their SST company made outstanding contributions to the development of hardcore rock. The unprecedented success of SST made Greg Yin, a band veteran, suddenly decide to dissolve 1986 Black Flag in order to devote more energy to company affairs. Of course, his decision has his reasons. All revolutions need leaders, and SST is the best candidate for hard-core revolutionary leaders. In the most glorious period, SST owned a number of heavyweight hardcore bands-Black Flag, Husky Du, (Meat Puppets), Descendants (Hereditary), Militia (Militia), Bad Brain, fIREHOSE and Buffalo Tom. Sound Garden Band, Sonic Youth, Screaming Trees ... The importance of these bands is self-evident, and their influence continues to this day, pointing out the direction for non-mainstream and independent rock in the future. The bands in this period showed unprecedented creativity and artistic appeal: Huschidu's elegance, bad brains, new noise experiments, one-minute jazz style, new country flavor ... without regret or sadness. Although this glorious era ended with the dissolution of SST's star band or joining major record companies around the 1990s, they gave this era the truest voice and the most dangerous passion.