Black Flag: Damaged (Unicorn/SST, import)/Panther Burns: Behind The Magnolia Curtains (Rough Trade)
Barney Hoskyns, NME, 6 February 1982
AS GUN Clubs and Blasters abound and multiply from the original Slash stock of Xs and Flesh Eaters, the LA hard punk core gets back to its own tangled roots. Black Flag kills ants at fifty paces.
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