Annihilate This Week

Annihilate This Week is a visceral document of Black Flag in their final, most complex form. By 1986, the band had shed the lightning-fast tempos of their early years in favor of a heavy, dragging, and deeply dissonant sound that prefigured the sludge metal movement. This EP captures that evolution in a live setting, stripping away any remaining studio polish to reveal the raw, muscular power of the Ginn-Rollins-Martinez-Roessler lineup. It is music that feels physically heavy, like a weight being dragged across a concrete floor, yet it retains a frantic, nervous energy that keeps the listener on edge.

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