BLACK FLAG 'DAMAGED' LP Halestorm (magazine) wrote that the band

(magazine) wrote that the band "has entered the upper realm of gore-grinders

catapulting you straight into the seventh heaven of metallic bliss and causing a massacre of razor-sharp sound no fan of the genre should miss

mainly from the January-February 1978 Static Age sessions

for better and worse

whilst still infusing the compositions with influences from the genre's glorious past

BLACK FLAG 'DAMAGED' LP Halestorm (magazine) wrote that the bandLABEL: SST Records ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 1981 VARIANT: Vinyl LP This is Hardcore: 101. Black Flag had already run through three different frontmen by the time D. C. transplant Henry Rollins made it out to the West Coast to snarl through the L. A. punk forces fiercely antagonistic debut album. A seething indictment of mainstream society, Damaged houses defiant, dangerous sounding early punk cuts about police brutality, alcoholism, depression and more.