sadly, the younger generation doesnt understand Pantera. they dont like "screamo"
>>128739763I found a zoomer Chad wandering around the thrift store wearing a Pantera 2025 tour t-shirt. I myself a Millennial, wearing a Pantera t-shirt as well, risked approach. He looked me in the eye, and said NICE DUDE YOU'RE REPPING. (slang for representing, i will have you know) daring to further the conversation, I asked him if he saw them on tour. He honestly said "no, my dad got this for me." I respected him even more for telling the truth. What a lad. He then went back to work, as he was an employee of the establishment. I'll never forget that young man.
Never called it that in my day.
>>128739763they've never been as popular as today, above Pearl Jam, U2 or Bob Marley on Spotify
>>128739763white trash
I find it hard to believe they wouldn't like Pantera, given that high school kids nowadays are into stuff like Korn and Slipknot. It's all basic entry-level "metal."
>>128739763Pantera is peak poser/wigger metal. Never forget that they started off as a shitty glam metal band in the 80s, and when that didin't work out for them then they started playing more aggressive thrash inspired metal but more dumbed down than real thrash metal. Hers some good metal for you zoomoids:https://youtu.be/3rdt2yVhcP0https://youtu.be/J7WENbFwZx0https://youtu.be/qXN1t86o1dE
>>128739870Normies and Normie metal fans have a different understanding of metal history through the mid-2000s.See, Journalists and music nerds online refer to mid-2000s bands with emo scene aesthetics and alternating screamed and clean vocals as metalcore. This is like, probably right or something because most of those bands are influenced by late 90s Melodic Metalcore albums that normies have never heard of.Normies though? They've always consistently rejected this classification, and referred to the entire subgenre in the mid-2000s as "Screamo," because emo-fashion + screaming. They also don't understand why it's called metalcore because these bands don't really sound like hardcore punk, or first-wave metalcore bands like Converge, Hatebreed, or Botch. Most of these bands were hyper-influenced by Pantera's Great Southern Trendkill, as well as Shadow's Fall, and At The Gates. Which is how/why Pantera gets indirectly smeared as Screamo from time to time.tl;dr Pantera was never "Screamo" but the vast majority of bands derided as Screamo in the mid-2000s tried really really really hard to copy Pantera's song-writing from Great Southern Trendkill, leading some uneducated listeners to hear Pantera's more abrasive work as being the same as mediocre metalcore/deathcore bands.
