Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Black Death (American band)

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The result was keep. no consensus for deletion whatsoever JForget 01:48, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Black Death (American band)[edit]

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Band not notable for anything except being black. May fail Wikipedia:Notability (music). Duribald (talk) 19:59, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Keep-I'm not really a fan of this band, but I made an article for them because they are notable. They have an Allmusic bio and they were mentioned in Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal. Though those two sources are most likely all the sources you could find on this group's existence. RG (talk) 20:08, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep, or merge. It would be nice to have specific info from the book cited in the article as well (did it just name the band or actually say something about it?). This article apparently cannot be expanded, but the idea that they are the first all African American metal band is of some historical note and I think it's probably worth keeping if only for that reason. An equally palatable option would be to turn this into a redirect and merge the content to one of our articles on heavy metal and its history/sub-genres, though I'm not sure what the target for the merge would be. --Bigtimepeace | talk | contribs 21:18, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: On page 206 Christe says "In Cleveland, Ohio, a revered all-black power metal band crushed posers under the tongue-in-cheek name Black Death." It's featured on his big section on race in metal. The only other thing I could find on this group was an article about their drummer's death on metalunderground.com RG (talk) 21:40, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. — Gongshow ^Talk 01:17, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Keep - I agree with the folks above. There is surely some historical interest behind this band and it would be nice if more sources existed, but I also can find little beyond what has already been found. This is a borderline case of notability but I'm willing to give 'em the benefit of the doubt. DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 17:20, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
keep i found some more sources but it is not easy since searching for 'black death' gives you a lot of other stuff too. i am sure there is a lot more out there. Aisha9152 (talk) 17:58, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep — covered by multiple sources. (Sugar Bear (talk) 21:47, 17 February 2010 (UTC))[reply]

Keep Here's a source that describes Black Death as "one of the only, if not the only, all-black metal bands in the country". — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 22:41, 18 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.