A BAND CALLED DEATH

By Jeff HOWLETT, Mark COVINO

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Documentary - Completed 2012

Before Bad Brains, the Sex Pistols or even the Ramones, there was Death.

    • Year of production
    • 2012
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 96 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Jeff HOWLETT, Mark COVINO
    • Producer(s)
    • Scott MOSIER (OGB Inc), Matthew PERNICIARO (Haven Entertainment), Kevin MANN (Haven Entertainment)
    • Synopsis
    • Before Bad Brains, the Sex Pistols or even the Ramones, there was Death. Formed in the early ’70s by three teenage brothers from Detroit, Death is credited as being the first black punk band, and the Hackney brothers, David, Bobby, and Dannis, are now considered pioneers in their field. But it wasn’t until recently — when a dusty 1974 demo tape made its way out of Bobby’s attic nearly 30 years after Death’s heyday — that anyone outside a small group of punk enthusiasts had even heard of them. Equal parts electrifying rockumentary and epic family chronicle, the story of Death is one of brotherly love and fierce, divinely inspired expression.