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.

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.

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

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.