ARKA'N-Tears of the Dead Official Video

African Metal. Now, that is something you don't hear of often. May them become legendary.

African music-->blues-->rock n roll-->heavy metal-->African Metal. It's come full circle.

We NEED more african metal.

The tribal drumming, the chains, the fire, the facepaints are so badass!!

The diversity in metal is strong💪✊🤘

Everyone please signal boost this band. It’s disappointing how few people know of them, and this is some HIGH QUALITY metal. Much love from the states, guys! Gorgeous harmonies, fantastic balance of all of your musical elements, I am blown away by you guys.

Badass, I love african metal. Much respect, coming from an Native American metalhead. \m/

Greetings! I'm a 7th Grade Science teacher in Massachusetts (USA). Last year while teaching 100% remotely due to coronavirus. I started giving my students a tour of modern African music, one country each day. I play the music in the background for the first few minutes while they do an opening task to get them ready for the lesson. I've continued this year now that we are back in class. I chose a different song from Togo last year, but decided to play this song this year. Most of my choices have been in the Afropop/Afrobeat genres, as the majority of my students are Black or Hispanic, and I thought they would find those genres appealing. However, I then I decided it's important to expose my students to many types of music and not to make assumptions about what they will like. After each song I have the students give a thumb vote and this got a lot more thumbs up than I had expected. In particular, they loved the African drum rhythms, and the story that the video tells. Several kids were banging their heads too. Thanks for making it!

Metal is the culture that unites people from all around the world regardless of their race and nationality. Metal knows nothing about immigration and borders. When all metalheads join together, they are all in family. It is good to see Africa sharing their metal talent!

Yes!!!! Im a black American metalhead goth guy. I've been listening to metal for a decade. I always wanted to see more black people and African people being represented in metal. It's about time. Half a decade ago it wasn't really that relevant, but times are changing, and close minded people need to see this. For the trillionth time, skin color does not define what or who you have to be. Like what you like in this life. To be hated for what I like is a gift then to be loved for what people think I'm supposed to be.

There's something about traditional cultural instruments infused with metal that will always be more badass than anything else.

I'm black heavy-metal fan I never thought that was African heavy-metal we have so much suffering to sing about

Gotta admit this ancient metalhead from the UK f*cking loves this. Outstanding

This is very cool ,love the flavour africa puts into metal. Awesome song guys

African American woman here, been a fan of metal since I was five. Does my heart good to see African influence in metal genre! Good work fellas!

Damn it ! As an afro descendant who has been into rock and metal for decades, this shit makes me happy !

This has to become the national Anthem of Togo!

Nigerian American music lover here. Wishing this band so much success and good vibes! Much love!

My ancestors come from Togo. This is the music of my people. Love this.

Hey Guys! I'm an 49year old metal dude from Germany! Listening to this music for over 30 years. I saw your band at a documenatry on TV. You are great! Be powerful, fearless and above all spread the power of this kind of music to your region of the world with the glourious message of free mind, social awareness and antiracism!