Pantera is a band that has music I sometimes like the sound of, but I cannot SAFTA (separate art from the artist) for them. It's just not possible for me, especially as a black and queer metalhead.
I kinda have the same issue with Iron Maiden ever since Bruce went full steam ahead as a xenophobic Brexit dipshit. Then I dug deeper and found that Steve Harris actually wrote most of their material and gave them another shot, on the basis that "Fear is the Key" was written about the Thatcher and Reagan administrations' inaction on the AIDS epidemic due to both of them seeing it as a way to systematically murder "undesirables." So then I listened to the song and heard the lyrics making it sound like LGBTQ+ folks are all needle-sharing orgy-goers
Fuck Pantera, though. Damageplan is automatically sus as well, and there should be a version of the Doomsday Clock whose hands indicate how close Kayla Kent is to finally getting that swastika face tattoo.
Pantera is a band that has music I sometimes like the sound of, but I cannot SAFTA (separate art from the artist) for them. It's just not possible for me, especially as a black and queer metalhead.
Me as a young'un listening to the lyrics of 10s by Pantera as it starts playing during Broly The Legendary Super Saiyan
I kinda have the same issue with Iron Maiden ever since Bruce went full steam ahead as a xenophobic Brexit dipshit. Then I dug deeper and found that Steve Harris actually wrote most of their material and gave them another shot, on the basis that "Fear is the Key" was written about the Thatcher and Reagan administrations' inaction on the AIDS epidemic due to both of them seeing it as a way to systematically murder "undesirables." So then I listened to the song and heard the lyrics making it sound like LGBTQ+ folks are all needle-sharing orgy-goers
Fuck Pantera, though. Damageplan is automatically sus as well, and there should be a version of the Doomsday Clock whose hands indicate how close Kayla Kent is to finally getting that swastika face tattoo.