And, of course, there are some other incredible metal musicians who are Black, such as Terrance Hobbs (Suffocation), Tom Morello (RATM), Lajon Witherspoon (Sevendust), Joshua Travis (Emmure, Glass Cloud, The Tony Danza…), Derrick Green (Sepultura), and even Metallica had Lloyd Grant play a solo on the Hit the Lights demo, but he’s not considered to have ever been an “official” member of the band.
I could mention Bad Brains too, but they’re more hardcore punk, of course. Gonna mention Living Colour too even though they’re not as overtly metal as the other examples.
Mike Alexander (RIP) of Evile too. They looked like they were gonna single-handedly bring back thrash until his death :/ He wrote some sick bass lines, they should be a huge band today.
Sevendust have some good stuff, Black is an absolute banger (although some would disagree on whether they count as metal). Howard Jones formerly of Killswitch Engage is black too.
My obligatory mention of Tosin Abasi
And, of course, there are some other incredible metal musicians who are Black, such as Terrance Hobbs (Suffocation), Tom Morello (RATM), Lajon Witherspoon (Sevendust), Joshua Travis (Emmure, Glass Cloud, The Tony Danza…), Derrick Green (Sepultura), and even Metallica had Lloyd Grant play a solo on the Hit the Lights demo, but he’s not considered to have ever been an “official” member of the band.
I could mention Bad Brains too, but they’re more hardcore punk, of course. Gonna mention Living Colour too even though they’re not as overtly metal as the other examples.
holy shit that goes so fuckin hard
Mike Alexander (RIP) of Evile too. They looked like they were gonna single-handedly bring back thrash until his death :/ He wrote some sick bass lines, they should be a huge band today.
A thrash bassist who died young while on tour in Sweden…
It’s sad that I can recall another, more well-known incident of this.
Yeah :(
Sevendust have some good stuff, Black is an absolute banger (although some would disagree on whether they count as metal). Howard Jones formerly of Killswitch Engage is black too.
THERE IS LOOOOOOOOVE
His vocals made that song. Easily one of the best metalcore songs of the 2000s, absolute banger
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