Blackfire was founded in 1989 in Flagstaff, Arizona by siblings Jeneda, Klee, and Clayson Benally.

Their mother was a folk singer-songwriter of Russian-Polish Jewish descent,[1][2] while their father, Jones Benally, was a traditional Navajo medicine man.

Ramone produced a five-song EP that became their debut album released on their label Tacoho Productions.

Featuring their father doing traditional vocals, the album is described as "15 passionately burning songs of struggles, resistance, and hope.

It is also the last project that Joey Ramone, who dubbed Blackfire's music as "fireball punk-rock," contributed to before he died due to lymphoma.