New music announced after 12 years

“The Black Flags are turning the page and inaugurating a new era”: with these words, the historic hardcore punk band has surprised its return by surprise, through a post on the official social channels. Twelve years after the latest album, “What the …”, the group led by Greg Ginn is ready to present new material to the fans. After turbulent years, Ginn has practically reconstructed the band from Capo, also revealing the names of the new members: Max Zanelli under the voice, David Rodriguez on bass and Bryce Weston on drums, three faces completely new for long -standing fans. “The new training is already at work in the studio, between tests, writing and new vibrations,” reads the announcement. “Concerts and new music are coming”.

In spite of their vocation to consume themselves quickly between Fast Forward Antisocial and nihilistic accelerations, the black flags were one of the hardcore groups of wider and lasting influence on the fate of alternative music all. For the sonic armor refined by them over time, for their ability to change skin, for the uncommon technical ability in forging the entropy of anger and noise assimilated by the first generation punk.
In some sections of “Damaged” (1981) they warned the grindin others, certainly noise-rock of school Albinian; “My War” (1983) is mentioned by several parts as the most raw and exasperated grunge of the grunge; “Slip it in” (1984) and “Loose nut” (1985) gave a decisive imprint to the development of subgenre Heavy As Sudge, Stoner and Punk-Metal; Their swan song, the EP “Process of Weizing Out” (1985), with its eccentric jazz-punk, pushed even the metamorphosis up to prefigure Math-rock results. Not to mention that the record company of the Ginn family (Greg, guitarist and leading band, and his brother Ray, who calls himself Raymond Pettibon), the SST, initially founded for the sole purpose of supporting the debut on the long distance of the Black Flag, will become a reference point for the whole post-core and pre-grunge scene by publishing, in the eighties, the records of symbolic groups such as Bad Brains, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Husker Du and, for a short time, Soundgarden and Sonic Youth.