Funk Gumbo Radio Reply: Why Are There so Few AfricanAmericans in Metal? By Nicholas Pell Fri., Dec.

21 2012 at 9:25 AM

funkgumbo 5pts Jan 18, 2013 This a good, simplistic and inquisitive article, but the articles writer, Nicholas Pell, should have known that there are far more Black Heavy Metal bands or Heavy Metal bands with Black lead singers than the few he mentioned. We at the new funk/rock/alternative online radio station called Funk Gumbo Radio, which is on www.Live365.com, regularly plays 24/7 Black rock/metal bands like Sound Barrier, God Forbid, Black Death, Sevendust, Killswitch Engage, Straight Line Stitch, Bury Your Dead, Trash Talk, HelixDown, Aviator, King's X, Black Vengeance, God's Weapon. We also have played a local all-white Heavy Metal band like intakeCa as well many African Black Heavy Metal bands such as Mortal Soul (Kenya), Skinflint (Botswana), Crystal Axis (Kenya), Witch (Zambia) and Last Year's Tragedy (Kenya).

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So before Nicholas tried to widely speculate why Blacks in general do not show in large numbers at metal shows. He should have at least learned what Black owned radio station was already supporting Hirax on our many social media outlets and playing Hiraxs songs--as well as all-if not-the vast majority of Black Heavy Metal bands in the world. Contacting us might have greatly changed the writers limited perspective and stereotypical assumptions about the commercial viability of Heavy Metal appealing mainly to whites and not to Blacks. This does not even mention the Black rock group DEATH, another of our stations bands, from Detroit that was playing punk rock songs in the early 1970's several years before anyone in the UK and the U.S. knew what punk rock was about. There is a huge global Black fan base and multi-racial fan base of rock, metal and punk rock and it cannot be accurately or realistically discussed by one merely trying to count how many Blacks attended Ozzfest this year, last year or in years past. And Funk Gumbo Radio also plays artists and bands like Janelle Monae, Prince, The Skins, Radkey, Divinity Roxx, The FountNHead, Baby Baby, Skindred, Noiseaux, Alabama Shakes, Praise The Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Ben Harper, Vintage Trouble, Slash, Lenny Kravitz, Death Grips, Nneka, Rise of Saturn, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Pure Hell, Thin Lizzy, and many others. The links to our Funk Gumbo Radio station and Pinterest board are below: http://www.live365.com/stations/sirhobson http://pinterest.com/funkgumboradio/artists-bands-on-funk-gumbo-radio/ ShareFlag LikeReply

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