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Herkus Monte wrote:I am certain I have seen a few black dudes on the photos of some more obscure Brazillian death/thrash bands from the 80`s but I cannot recall the names right now.
Oh, and there is also Mystifier...

No, excluding south american and african bands as about 70 % of the brazilian bands had members with afro american background and it's nothing special over there.

Cochino wrote:Black Dethe (they released only demos though)
And I'm not sure if the dude in the MA photo of Death Mask is black, latino or both.

Can't see any black guy in the LP photo, prohably Latino which leads me to another question, Jeff Scott Soto is he afro american or Latino? On the pic of the Panther MLP he looks latino, on another pic I've seen he looks more afro american "influenced". Does anyone know more?

And the guy of german Mass had indeed afro american roots. His dad was GI or something.

SAPPHIRE (uk)
DRAGONFLY (uk)

Didn't fit exactly into the eighties, but it's a very cool band from the Netherlands...

Blackkout (bass player Darren McFarland).

Prowler wrote:Jeff Scott Soto is he afro american or Latino? On the pic of the Panther MLP he looks latino, on another pic I've seen he looks more afro american "influenced". Does anyone know more?

I believe he's from Puerto Rico so that would make him Latino.

Death Mask

http://www.metal-archives.com/images/8/ ... _photo.jpg

Wanted (US)
Wicca also,now that I'm reading the Snakepit mag...

Avenger wrote:

Prowler wrote:Jeff Scott Soto is he afro american or Latino? On the pic of the Panther MLP he looks latino, on another pic I've seen he looks more afro american "influenced". Does anyone know more?

I believe he's from Puerto Rico so that would make him Latino.

Plenty of African descendants in Puerto Rico, so he could be both.

Which takes me to

Khnud wrote:Death Mask

http://www.metal-archives.com/images/8/ ... _photo.jpg

Cochino wrote:Black Dethe (they released only demos though)
And I'm not sure if the dude in the MA photo of Death Mask is black, latino or both.

Oh sorry, didn't see you already mentioned them.

first to come into my mind and that its not listed yet: Zoetrope

Cochino wrote:

Avenger wrote:

Prowler wrote:Jeff Scott Soto is he afro american or Latino? On the pic of the Panther MLP he looks latino, on another pic I've seen he looks more afro american "influenced". Does anyone know more?

I believe he's from Puerto Rico so that would make him Latino.

Plenty of African descendants in Puerto Rico, so he could be both.

Well, there are probably black people in nearly every country of the world so it's possible. Odds are better granted the majority of the population in Puerto Rico that he's latino though.

Samson (UK) had a black drummer (Mel Gaynor), post-Thunderstick.
I don't know if he made any recordings with them however.
I think he went on to join Simple Minds later.
Also, Jean Beauvoir was bassist with The Plasmatics, playing on "New Hope For The Wretched", "Beyond The Valley Of 1984" and "Metal Priestess".
He was the black dude with the peroxide mohawk, a very good look.
Yes, they started out as a Punk band, but they became more Metallic with each successive release, and are worthy of inclusion i reckon.
Same story with Bad Brains, by the time of "The Quickness", they were for all intents and purposes a Metal band, albeit an odd one.
Oh, and Bernie Torme's Electric Gypsies had a black bass player too, Everton Williams.

Yeah, The Plasmatics also had a black drummer in Coup D'Etat who according to Metal Archives has been involved in some other Metal bands and is now playing with Joe Hasselvander.

Living Colour - They supported Anthrax back in the 80's so they must have been metal.

Black Death is the most metallic in my opinion, with the most over due CD re-edition.