MOS DEF PRODUCING MOVIE ABOUT DEATH

That's the all-black Detroit proto-punk band, not the Florida death metallars or the absence of life.

Death started out as an R&B group until Alice Cooper inspired them to hit the distortion. The band formed in '71 and burnt out by '76. They've had a powerful influence but almost no acknowledgement in the history books or the mainstream.

Mos Def had this to say about the project: "It's going to be great. These dudes were pre-Sex Pistols, pre-Bad Brains, pre-all that shit, and nobody knows them. I don't understand how the whole world could forget them."

In 2009, Drag City records released all seven Death recordings on CD and LP under the title ...For the Whole World to See.