Black @ Metal

[scorpio01169]

hey guys...i want to hear some opinions about what you feel about black people in metal. i am a black guy and i have been into metal for as long as its been around, but when i meet new people and i tell them im in a band and they ask me what kinda music i play and i say metal....it's almost the same look... and them its "what a black guy in a metal band" yeah theres not alot of us but dayum its 2006 it shouldnt be that shocking.

 

[smy1]

I don't care what you look like. You could be Gollum or Thor if you ask me, if your tone sucks - it sucks ... and if your riffs slay, they slay.

It's as simple as that, really

 

[Razorjack]

I don't think it makes a difference what colour your skin is (unless you are like bright green, then you might have to see a doctor).

 

[~BURNY~]

it shouldnt be that shocking

It's not. Only the close minded people are shocked about that. The very same people who are shocked about women doing metal, gays doing metal or whatever.

 

[Nitronium Blood]

I don't care what the colour of your skin is. If you love metal then that is freakin ' awesome.

 

[scorpio01169]

It's not. Only the close minded people are shocked about that. The very same people who are shocked about women doing metal, gays doing metal or whatever.

yeah Jada Pinkett has a double sword in wicked wisdom...it was wrong they way she was treated... in my opinion

 

[Deus.exe]

yeah Jada Pinkett has a double sword in wicked wisdom...it was wrong they way she was treated... in my opinion

With Jada Pinkett-Smith, it's not olny her being a woman and Afro-American but it's also the fact that she's a famous actor. A lot of those Blabbermouth idiots seem to think that she's "Cashing In" by being in a metal band (Which makes absolutely no sense whatsoever). What she earned making the last two of the Matrix films is ten times more than many metal bands make in their entire careers.

For my part, I like Wikked Wisdom, they sometimes have these quasi Meshuggah like grooves which I love. Ok the lyrics maybe a bit cliché but so are 1000's of other bands. I say more power to them.

 

[JeffTD]

Color shouldn't matter at all - if anything, being black could be a selling point.

Take God Forbid, for example - the 4/5th's black metal band.

 

[Deus.exe]

Take God Forbid, for example - the 4/5th's black metal band.

Or Suffocation Terrance Hobbes and Mike Smith fuckin' smoke 80% of all musicians out there.

 

[elmuchoescadawg]

We could go back a bit further and mention 24/7 Spyz, Bad Brains and Living Colour..
Vernon is still one of the best guitar players around.
Erny C from Body Count and Rocky George from Suicidals are also both really under rated.

I still wouldnt know what any of em look like from listening to the album so why care?

 

[sparkyness]

Howard from Killswitch is the man.....Lajon from Sevendust too...

Back when I was living in Australia, I played with a maori/samoan guitarist. Dude was fuckin' killer, but the amount of shit that guy got from punters was disgusting and unforgiveable. He took all that shit and it just made him play harder and stronger. At the end of the day, he used to just tell me that he'd been dealing with shit like that his whole life and it used to upset him until he realised that's exactly what they wanted and he wouldn't let narrowminded racist fuckers stop him doing what he loved. Just plug in and rip dude....

 

[Suicide_As_Alibi]

The singer in my previous band was a 6-foot tall Jamacian chick - it worked to our advantage. She was a pretty awful frontwoman but we got crowds solely because she was the only non-white person AND the only grrl in the entire local metal scene. She gets more hassle about her facial piercings than her heritage.

Steve

 

[Kazrog]

One thing I haven't heard of is black people playing black metal. That would be pretty shweeet. I mean, how "black" can these silly Norwegians be anyway?

 

[STINNETT]

There's nothing wierd about it to me, I used to play in a band with a black dude.
For some people though, I guess it's sort of like a white english guy playing delta blues. It takes people a while to warm up to something that's a little out of the ordinary or unexpected. I doubt too many people are going to give you a seriously hard time, but you've got to expect some people to at least think it's odd. You've got to admit, at least in America, that most black people have no interest in metal at all. Everyone expects you to be into hip-hop.

I'm sure alot of black people still look at white rappers funny even though it's 2006 and all.

 

[Torniojaws]

One thing I haven't heard of is black people playing black metal. That would be pretty shweeet. I mean, how "black" can these silly Norwegians be anyway?

There are black metal bands with black guys too. A picture of one such band has been floating around, but I can't remember the name.

 

[Kazrog]

Everyone expects you to be into hip-hop.

It's these kinds of expectations that are extremely annoying. I have a black friend who's way into metal, and all his black friends give him shit for listening to "crazy white music." Conformity sucks, and it's really strange to me that some people consciously choose to embody a cheesy, racist stereotype.

 

[KeithRT99]

that's just the way society percieves things. White people are supposed to not be able to dance, black people are all supposed to listen to rap. Personally i wish there was more diversity in metal. I went to Gigantour in Oakland, CA - which is a city with a Majority of Black people - And i didn't see any black people in the arena besides the people who worked there. it was like 4000 people and no black people ( margin of error +/- 4)

 

[Genius Gone Insane]

Oakland, CA - which is a city with a Majority of Black people -

Hey, dude, sorry to bust your balls but Oakland is

NOT

a majority of black folks.

There are more whites than blacks in Oakland.

 

[equilibriax]

Living Colour is my favorite black metal band.

 

[Kenneth R.]

I don't care what the colour of your skin is. If you love metal then that is freakin ' awesome.

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