Darkest Hour guitarist Mike Schleibaum has responded to Phil Anselmo‘s (Down, ex-Pantera, etc.) usage of nazi gestures and yelling white power while onstage at the recent ‘Dimebash‘ event this past weekend. Speaking of Machine Head frontman/guitarist Robb Flynn‘s video condemning Anselmo for his actions, Schielbaum stated:
“I spent sometime watching this [Flynn‘s video] before my metalsucks podcasts today, we just finished recording so you will hear my thoughts on this whole thing via that interview coming soon. It’s a video like this that reminds me to say it was an honor to have toured with Machine Head. Rob is both brutality honest and totally on point in this video. I know that most of the world would watch this video and say who the fuck gives a shit – but Pantera meant a lot to me, music means a lot to me, and heavy metal is my life. So this is like sort of in my backyard.
I have nothing to add only to echo the rob and the bands sentiment. I’m not the moral police, we pride ourselves in the fact that we have many different fiends and fans who feel differently about a wide range of subjects… but racism has no place in metal to me, Metal / punk / hardcore / whateverthefuckyoucallit should be unifying. Its a shame to type these words as I am sure most of us know better. Honesty and sincerity in music now a days is hard to find, cheers to rob for keeping it 100!💯 – im going to crank up some machine head!”
