A Band Called Death Official Trailer 1 (2013) - Documentary HD 

For sure !

To think that punk rock could've been death rock, but then what would death metal be called? :D

Wrong Death

No. There were bands like the MC5 and The Stooges before them, and arguably Jerry Lee Lewis and Hasil Adkins before that. But they were awesome though!

@@jonnyodde2363 yep But that was not protopunk, keep digging my brother

+ All the music that you consider of white people (rock) started in church of black people.

@@bryanforbes3361 1) You missed my point, but even still you are wrong. The Stooges and MC5 (and Death) are the epitome of proto-punk. By definition, them and bands like them "started" punk. 2) Read my comment. You don't think I know where rock and roll came from? Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Hot Gospel of southern black churches is a good start. The topic was the birth of Punk, not Rock and Roll. I stand by my statement 100%.

The blues players started the rock maddnesd like Chuck berry Albert king.I do feel musically the band called death had a way better feel then there predecessors.But 1972 The band Mother's finest were on another planet as well.Look them up Mother's finest.

Another black man, Arthur Lee from the band Love, kick-started early punk rock in 1966 with his song "Seven and Seven Is."

black started punk then the bad brains took it to a whole other level.

Technically it was Blue Cheer but these guys were good.

@@thesupremegentlemanatheist7382 Blue Cheer was more southern fried bluesy rock. i like them too! from a guy who hates all non black people equally!

Cobain 92 relatable

I came looking for the other Death documentary, but found this. Still cool!

@@carlosarenivas5362 :D I found “the other Death” searching for this one :D Thing is I didn’t know about the white Death so that’s a great discovery

Same, Chuck brought me here

LipsoNI yup lol

These guys are just as good

You're in luck. It isn't about Death, it's about Death.

Every other word in that paragraph is just another label. Let it go, enjoy the music, and have a good time.

It's heartbreaking to find out one of the brothers passed away before they got fully discovered.

Kyle Kirschner What i find even more heartbreaking is that all this time and all those other bands that copied them never recognized them and gave them their rightful do or even some money for allowing to copy off their invention.

I'm not sure Billions have been made. Look at the Stooges, Iggy, isn't exactly piling up the mansions.

DaOrigTruthSeeker Well they hardly"invented anything" punk rock was originally fans of rock&roll who were sick and tired of songs haing to be 20 minutes long, with 19 of those minutes dedicated to a drum solo, they wanted to go back to a time when the music was fun and easy to play. Like the bands and songs on Lenny Kaye's nuggets, record, so in stepped the Stooges, and the Ramones, And I am highly doubtful that "Billions" have been made.

emma duncan Total Bullshit!!

thomas smalley That actually might be my favorite way too get music in. Cooking.

That's kind of the whole problem. Nobody's heard of them, they played protopunk very close to actual punk in 1973, you can count the other bands who did this on both hands, maybe even one hand. They recorded songs in 1974, but they couldn't get any deals because society was racist, even the non-racist record labels wouldn't want to put money into it because due to racist society it most likely wouldn't sell and just be wasted funds. They ended the band in 1977 and in 2008 one bandmember's three sons found the records in their parents' attic and started covering them, reminding their parents of the records. Then in 2009 the band managed to get the record released in 2009, so only now people are able to find out about a black band that made fucking awesome protopunk in 1973.