Editing Slip It In (section)

==Recording and style==
''Slip It In'' was recorded on a brief break on the continuous tour for ''[[My War]]'', which saw Black Flag at their most ambitious. This year they would release three full-length albums and toured nearly constantly, with Rollins noting 178 performances for the year, and about that many for 1985. With Dukowski gone, Ginn ceded much of the spotlight to Rollins, who had expressed some discomfort<ref>see the track "Henry" from the spoken word compilation double album "English As a Second Language" (1984)</ref> over being the group's ''[[de facto]]'' spokesman, while Ginn was the recognized leader (Ginn wrote the majority of the group's songs and lyrics).

In many ways, ''Slip It In'' is a fusion of the styles utilized on their previous releases (with vocals), ''[[Damaged (Black Flag album)|Damaged]]'' and ''My War''. The songs are inspired by [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]], yet the material also shows traces of  "[[sludge metal|sludgy]] [[grunge|'pre-grunge']] [[sludge metal|metal]], [[hardcore punk]], and [[thrash metal|thrash]] to [[blues rock]] and [[jazz]]."<ref name="slip it in"/> The track "My Ghetto" even contains traces of a musical style that would later become known as [[powerviolence]]. At the middle point of the album, there is an instrumental track called "Obliteration" which highlights Ginn's [[chord progressions]] where Brandon Sideleau of Punknews.org claims that it "mashes [[sludge metal|sludge]] and [[jazz]] into an ominous hybrid."