Like, if someone leaked a Pantera fan list, I guess I wouldn't be on the wagon to ruin all their lives, even though Pantera is pretty well known for racism, shouting White Power and Nazi sautes n shit.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jan/26/pantera-shows-cancelled-after-frontmans-nazi-salute-prompts-fan-backlash

if you didn't know about Pantera

[–] RinseDrizzle@midwest.social 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Such a fucking shame learning about great music being made by terrible folks. Sooooo many rockers with controversy, be it racism, underage groupie fucking, or otherwise.

Thankfully there's no shortage of really talented people making awesome music these days. May need to dig around a bit, but my Spotify is an absolute labyrinth of more tunes than I can possibly get through. I've had to make annual playlists for every sub genre I'm into just to attempt to keep my archive manageable.

[–] damnyouclouds@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

Yep. Lot of bands you'd like to support, to buy their music, later find out they are damn bigots, nazis, whatever asswipes you can find. Especially in the metal scene. Makes me sad

[–] rab@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 months ago

Extreme music is made by extreme people

[–] littlecolt@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This makes me incredibly sad.

Edit: seriously tho. I never wanted to believe the band members were racist or anything. The song Rise was always my go to to show people how inclusive they wanted to be. "Taught when we're young to hate one another, it's time to have a new reign of power. Make pride universal so no one gives in, turn out backs on those who oppose"

I always thought that song especially was saying "we must not hate one another. We must all be proud of who we are and turn our backs on those who continue to hate." I may need to do some deeper thinking about it all. I have not listened to them in many years. Dimebag dying legit hurt.

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Damn it. Why did you have to make me aware of this? :/ I love Pantera.

[–] sugartits@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You think you have problems?!

I used to be a big Lostprophets fan... 😭

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you don't know about this one already, do yourself a favor and don't Google it.

[–] Sanyanov@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like a call for googling

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

huge mistake

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Phil Anselmo did a nazi salute. This made me sad. But the band didn't market themselves as nazis or write songs that praised nazism or overt racism. I wouldn't mind if someone knew that I own all their albums (except the one where they were apparently a hair band; I never saw that in stores when I was buying CDs). They didn't make nazi music, so I can defend it.

I won't send money their way because of the nazi salute. That I can also defend.

[–] mob@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Oh yeah, I'm not trying to blame a fan base over the actions of a group/artist. I also don't know what type of music the original post is about. Maybe they do make music thats like "we are Nazis and so are you if you sre listening" and then I'd probably be understanding of consequences of being fans.

But that Nazi salute is definitely not the only documented racism by Pantera members, and I'm sure you know that.

That doesn't make their fans racist imo