"Black Death" is the first recorded work by the North Carolina band Arrogance

Arrogance (band)

Arrogance is a rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In the 1970s and early 1980s it was one of the most popular local bands in the state . The group has released six full length albums in its history and an early non-LP single...

, released in 1970 (see 1970 in music

1970 in music

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). Black Death was originally slated to be the lead track, but according to Don Dixon it was inadvertently switched. http://www.yesweekly.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&subsectionID=4&articleID=2027 Also recorded at this session was a song called Race With The Devil, which appeared as a bonus track on the reissue CD of Arrogance's first LP, Give Us a Break

Give Us a Break (Arrogance album)

Give Us A Break is the first album by the North Carolina band Arrogance, released in 1973 . Only 300 copies of this album were pressed on Sugarbush Records, based in Chapel Hill.-Track listing:Side One...

(1973).

Personnel

• Don Dixon – Bass
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  , vocals
  Singing
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• Robert Kirkland – guitar
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• Mike Greer - guitar
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  , keyboards
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• Jim Glasgow - drums
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