Black Flag or black flag may refer to:

* Black Flag ( newspaper ), a publication in Britain

* Black Flag, Western Australia

* Black Flag ( insecticide ), a brand of pesticide

* Black Flag Army, a militia in Vietnam

* 1961 – Henry Rollins, American musician, comedian, and actor ( Black Flag )

Bands such as Black Flag and Crass ( and their followers ) widely stenciled their names and logos, while many punk night clubs, squats and hangouts are famous for their graffiti.

Siege, from Weymouth, Massachusetts, were influenced by classic American hardcore ( Minor Threat, Black Flag, Void ) and by British groups like Discharge, Venom, and Motörhead.

Repulsion, from Flint, Michigan, cited street punk groups like Discharge and Charged GBH, crossover thrash such as Dirty Rotten Imbeciles and Corrosion of Conformity, thrash metal like Slayer, Metallica, Sodom, and Venom, and death metal ( Possessed ), hardcore punk, like Black Flag, and older hard rock, as inspirational.

After performing for the short-lived Washington D. C .- based band State of Alert in 1980, Rollins fronted the California hardcore punk band Black Flag from August 1981 until mid-1986.

Since Black Flag disbanded, Rollins has hosted numerous radio shows, such as Harmony in My Head on Indie 103, and television shows such as The Henry Rollins Show, MTV < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s 120 Minutes, and Jackass.

He has also covered songs by hardcore punk bands such as The Exploited, Jello Biafra, and Black Flag.

* 1961 – Kira Roessler, American singer and bassist ( Black Flag and Dos )

* 1954 – Greg Ginn, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ( Black Flag, Gone, Mojack, and Confront James )

* Black Flag ( newspaper )

* 2002 – Rise Above: 24 Black Flag Songs to Benefit the West Memphis Three – performs on " Thirsty & Miserable "

Along with the fellow Washington, D. C. hardcore band Bad Brains and California band Black Flag, Minor Threat set the standard for many hardcore punk bands in the 1980s and 1990s.

In late 1993, Meat Puppets achieved mainstream popularity when Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, who became a fan after seeing them open for Black Flag, invited Cris and Curt to join him on MTV Unplugged for acoustic performances of " Plateau ", " Oh Me " and " Lake of Fire " ( all originally from Meat Puppets II ).

Among the earliest hardcore bands, regarded as having made the first recordings in the style, were Southern California's Middle Class and Black Flag.

A 1985 Rolling Stone feature on the Minneapolis scene and innovative California hardcore acts such as Black Flag and Minutemen declared, " Primal punk is passé.

Santiago listened to 1970s and 1980s punk including Black Flag and David Bowie.

Penelope Spheeris ' first installment of the three-part documentary " The Decline of Western Civilization " ( 1981 ) details extensive footage of the early Los Angeles punk scene through interviews and early concert footage from Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Germs, Fear, and Catholic Discipline, among others.

Black, white and gold are colours associated with Cornwall due to St Piran's Flag ( black and white ), and the Duchy Shield ( gold coins on black ).

* 1955 – Keith Morris, American singer-songwriter ( Black Flag, Circle Jerks, and Off!

* Acid Black Cherry, a Japanese Rock band

* Black Sun Empire, a Dutch drum & bass band

The term " black metal " was coined by the English band Venom with their second album Black Metal ( 1982 ).

The band played in this style on their first four albums: Bathory ( 1984 ), The Return of the Darkness and Evil ( 1985 ), Under the Sign of the Black Mark ( 1987 ) and Blood Fire Death ( 1988 ).

The album's release was followed by news that there would be no tour to promote the LP, that drummer Bevan was now playing drums for Black Sabbath and that bassist Kelly Groucutt had left the band.

Melodic death metal band The Black Dahlia Murder produced " Throne of Lunacy " and " Thy Horror Cosmic " based on the Cthulhu Mythos.

In the time between the release of the band's second seven-inch EP and the Out of Step record, the band briefly split when guitarist Lyle Preslar moved to Illinois to attend college for a semester at Northwestern University, Preslar was a member of Big Black for a few tempestuous rehearsals.

Guns, Trapt, Faster Pussycat, Black Veil Brides, Hollywood Trash ( Canadian Rock band from the early 1990s ) and Supergroupies among others.

Unlike previous recordings, the band had little time to practice beforehand, and Black Francis wrote much of the album in the studio.

In 2010, King collaborated with musician Shooter Jennings and his band Hierophant, providing the narration for their album, Black Ribbons.

With the departure of Dom Salvador to the United States, the band broke up, but at the beginning of the 1970s, some ex-members, including Luiz Carlos, José Carlos Barroso, and Oberdan joined Christovao Bastos, Jamil Joanes, Cláudio Stevenson and Lúcio da Silva to form Banda Black Rio.

Macainsh played with John Farnham on his Whispering Jack Tour and with Dave Warner's from the Suburbs, in 1988 he put together and managed a very successful AC / DC tribute band called Back in Black who went on to support Skyhooks on their comeback tour.

Some of speed metal's earlier influences include Black Sabbath's " Children of the Grave ", Deep Purple's " Fireball " and Queen's " Stone Cold Crazy " ( which was eventually covered by the thrash metal band Metallica ), from their 1974 album Sheer Heart Attack, and Deep Purple's song " Highway Star ", from their album Machine Head.

None of the band came from Guildford: Black is from Ilford, Burnel from Notting Hill, Cornwell from Kentish Town and Greenfield from Brighton, while Wärmling came from Sweden and returned there after leaving the band.

Cornwell was a blues musician prior to forming the band and had briefly been a bandmate of Richard Thompson, Burnel had been a classical guitarist who had performed with symphony orchestras, Jet Black was a jazz drummer, and Dave Greenfield had played at military bases in Germany.

In May 2006, Roberts left the band, and The Stranglers were now back to a four-piece line-up: Burnel, Black, Greenfield and Warne, with the lead vocals shared between Warne and Burnel.

On 4 November 2007, the band ( with Black ) played a sell-out gig at the Roundhouse in Camden, North London, marking the thirtieth anniversary of their headline run at the same venue in 1977.

However, Black was back with the band for their UK tour later in the year.

Singleton also played in local band Black Cat Bone.