You may recall that Senses Fail frontman Buddy Nielsen and Attila vocalist Chris Fronzak had a war of words with each other back in 2014 when both Attila and Senses Fail were on the ‘Vans Warped Tour‘ together. The beef erupted over Fronzak‘s frequent usage of a homophobic slur in his lyrical content, which offended Nielsen enough to not only call out Fronzak while onstage, but also call him out on Twitter, which led to a resulting beef.
For his part, Fronzak denied using the slur in an actual homophobic connotation. While it appeared to be relatively quiet on that front on the years since, Fronzak seemingly stoked the fire again earlier this year when he called out Nielsen on the Attila diss track, “Callout 2“. Speaking shortly after the release of that track, Fronzak said of his beef with Nielsen this past February:
“Fuck a Buddy Nielsen: This dude literally dedicated his entire set every day on Warped 2014 to talk shit about Attila. As if that wasn’t fulfilling enough he would talk shit to us on twitter 5 minutes after getting off the stage. Dude is just a whiny bitch.”
During a recent appearance on Altpress‘s Cautionary Tales, Nielsen vented on his problems with Fronzak, stating:
“I don’t feel like the music scene came out to support me [for calling out Fronzak.] There was a lot of ‘shut up, shut the fuck up, play your songs and be glad that you’re here. You got everything you wanted.’ I was talking about a lot of these issues in the music scene three years ago, and people were like, ‘Way to go, social justice warrior.’”
He continued:
“Nobody had my back with that Attila dude. That dude is one of the dudes who needs to get punched in the face. I am not a violent person. But if you are a person who is queer and you get called ‘faggot,’ you have every fuckin’ right to knock that person in the face. I am for standing in your fuckin’ space and taking it. I do not like a nonviolent, passive queer movement. Peace and love doesn’t always get you a place of respect at the table.”
