Black Death

Black Death are an American band from Cleveland,Ohio who have been noted as the "first all-African-American heavy metal band." The group were also mentioned in Ian Christe's book Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal., and mentioned Rock 'n' roll and the Cleveland connection by Deanna R. Adams as "one of the only, if not the only, all-black metal bands in the country" in 1987. Black Death was a nameless band in 1977 consisting of Greg Hicks, Phil Bullard, and Clayborn Pinkins. In 1978 they recruited ("Siki Spacek"). The name Black Death was coined by Hicks, Bullard, and Pinkins in 1979. That year, Pinkins was shot and killed. Soon after, Ed Goodan took over on bass, only to be replaced a year later by...