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My War is the second studio album by American band Black Flag. It was the first of three full-length albums released by the band in 1984.
It polarized fans due to the B-side, on which the band slowed down to a heavy, Black Sabbath-esque sludge, 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 which prohibited the band from using its own name on recordings, Black Flag returned to the studio with a new approach to its music that incorporated a greater variety of styles, resulting in a sound orthodox punks found difficult to accept.
The A-side is composed of six generally high-paced, thrashy hardcore tracks, featuring guitar solos unusual in punk music. On the B-side are three tracks in a sludge metal style, each breaching six-minutes with ponderously slow tempos and dark, unrelenting lyrics of self-hatred.