Effective period / Period of releases: 1984

Members: Siki Spacek, Greg Hicks (2), Phil Bullard, Darrell Harris (2), Vincent Lindsay

Black Death is an American band from Cleveland, Ohio, USA, that was formed in 1977. The band has been noted as the "first all-African-American heavy metal band." The group were also mentioned in Ian Christe's book Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal, and mentioned by Deanna R. Adams as "one of the only, if not the only, all-black metal bands in the country" in 1987.