A Band Called Death

Can't believe there hasn't been a post about this, a new documentary just came out about a called black proto-punk band called Death

http://drafthousefilms.com/film/a-band-called-death

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwehxN2ipCU

well there's this Since it's probably the best rock record that's going to come out this year: Death (detroit proto punk not metal band) - "...For The Whole World To See" Thread

hard band to search, but there was definitely discussion of them here when Drag City released their demos a couple years back. Good band. Curious about doc, although I'm getting sort of bored of this kind of retroactive record collector mythmaking.

Urg well i suck at searching it seems, anyways just watched the documentary(after having to jump thru hoops with vpn's to see it here in the UK) well worth a watch imo

xp yeah, i guess it's fallout from the rodriguez thing? i dunno, does every last band deserve a documentary? i mean, is there awesome footage of Death from back in the day here? trailer suggests there is not.

and i think that first Death release is awesome, don't get me wrong.
i love big star too, just not sure i need an hour and a half documentary with a bunch of talking heads telling me how good they were.

bah I feel like such a sourpuss for saying that. This doc is free on the web? yeah I'll watch it.

haha, yeah, i don't mean to be a jerk about it, i'd probably watch it! i guess i just know how much work goes into making these things and i wonder if it's totally worth it?

i mean there's a documentary about the drummer from Hole so why not Death?

(and i watched the whole thing! she seems nice and is a good drummer! even after seeing it i didn't exactly get why the documentary existed)

Yeah just heard about this this morning cos Wayne kramer was talking about it on Facebook.
Hope I get a chance to see it.

DEATH SHARES "NORTH STREET" VIA NPR
ANNOUNCES FULL ALBUM DETAILS VIA PITCHFORK
DEATH III DUE APRIL 22ND VIA DRAG CITY

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LISTEN: "North Street" - https://soundcloud.com/drag-city/death-north-st/

Five years after the second life of Death was started with the release of their revelatory 1976 album, For the Whole World to See, Death III slams the door on the vault with a powerful set of songs that bring equal amounts of rock and ethereal soul-searching, in high-fidelity, rich bottomed, studio-grade sound. Alongside songs from 1975, 1976 and 1980, Death III contains two songs from 1992, as the Hackney brothers reconvened nearly a decade after they'd stopped playing together. Death III serves as a companion piece of sorts to the A Band Called Death documentary, tracking the band's movement from spiritual young rockers to older and wiser, bruised-but-undefeated brothers, in pure musical terms.

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Death
Death III
April 22, 2014
Drag City

1. Introduction by David Hackneyy
2. North Street
3. Open Road
4. We Are Only People
5. Restlessness
6. Free
7. Yes He's Coming
8. First Snowfall in Detroit
9. We're Gonna Make It

weak, no "fire up the ganja"?!

funny that the doc skips over the dudes in Death's Phish association.
"North St." sounds good.

Saw the current version of the band last night, with Obnox opening. Eh, too many songs were more plodding generic 70s rock than proto-punky Stoogey.

Alternative Press premiered a new Death track

Having formed in 1973, Death are an influential band out of Detroit, originating a sound that pre-dated the punk we know today.

Today, they're premiering a new track, "Cease Fire," which will be released on 45 vinyl and digitally.

"'Cease Fire,' the new Death single, is a continuation of the social conscious voice that rock n' roll music states to all people," Death says. "If John Lennon were alive in this world today, we are sure he would echo the same sentiments, because we have to first put the guns down and stop the senseless shooting so we can 'Give Peace A Chance.'"

The 45 can be purchased here.

It's nice enough but $15 for a vinyl single, the B-side of which is on the last album, is a bit much.

We discussed Death several times on ye olde Black Acid Rock thread(which is fairly wide-ranging and contentiously so at times---incl. re the title, blah blah---but also chock full of info). Death...For The Whole World To See seemed like demos and uneven ones at that, but overall pretty enjoyable; ditto, to a somewhat lesser extent, N.E.W., which has two of the three original members, but the relatively new guy has to substitute for the posthumous leader.