Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "My War is the second studio album by American band Black Flag. It was released in 1984 on SST Records and polarized fans over the LP's B-side, on which the band slowed down to a heavy, Black Sabbath-esque trudge, despite the reputation the band had earned as leaders in fast hardcore punk on its first album, Damaged (1981). After a period of legal troubles during which prohibited the band from using its own name on recordings, Black Flag returned to the studio with a new approach to its music, incorporating a greater variety of styles resulting in a sound difficult for orthodox punks to accept. The line-up had shrunk from five members to three: vocalist Henry Rollins, drummer Bill Stevenson, and co-founding guitarist Greg Ginn. Ginn doubled on bass under the name \"Dale Nixon\" for the recording as co-founding bassist Chuck Dukowski had been pushed out of the band shortly before recording; the album includes two tracks he wrote.The six tracks on the A-side of the LP are generally high-paced, thrashy hardcore, featuring guitar solos unusual in punk. On the B-side are three tracks in a sludge metal style, each breaching the six-minute mark with ponderously slow tempos and unrelenting dark lyrics of self-hatred. The band members had grown their hair long when they toured the album in 1984, further alienating their hardcore skinhead fanbase. My War has come to be cited as being a major influence on sludge metal and grunge."@en }
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- My_War abstract "My War is the second studio album by American band Black Flag. It was released in 1984 on SST Records and polarized fans over the LP's B-side, on which the band slowed down to a heavy, Black Sabbath-esque trudge, despite the reputation the band had earned as leaders in fast hardcore punk on its first album, Damaged (1981). After a period of legal troubles during which prohibited the band from using its own name on recordings, Black Flag returned to the studio with a new approach to its music, incorporating a greater variety of styles resulting in a sound difficult for orthodox punks to accept. The line-up had shrunk from five members to three: vocalist Henry Rollins, drummer Bill Stevenson, and co-founding guitarist Greg Ginn. Ginn doubled on bass under the name \"Dale Nixon\" for the recording as co-founding bassist Chuck Dukowski had been pushed out of the band shortly before recording; the album includes two tracks he wrote.The six tracks on the A-side of the LP are generally high-paced, thrashy hardcore, featuring guitar solos unusual in punk. On the B-side are three tracks in a sludge metal style, each breaching the six-minute mark with ponderously slow tempos and unrelenting dark lyrics of self-hatred. The band members had grown their hair long when they toured the album in 1984, further alienating their hardcore skinhead fanbase. My War has come to be cited as being a major influence on sludge metal and grunge.".