Comments on: FALL OUT BOY cover PANTERA's "Walk"; metalheads over-react

By: LordZ

LordZ — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:00:50 +0000

Hahahahaha…. those "die-hard" Pantera fans hating this stuff. Just check the booklet of Far Beyond Driven… Oooops, of course, a booklet doesn't come with a download…. Go to the store, buy Far Beyond Driven and read in the Booklet what Phil says about Planet Caravan.

And what makes me wonder the most, is that those fans know so much about Fall out Boy. I had to google them… (says something about me as well ;) ) And for sure, those guys won't be part of my memory for a long time. I just forget things that aren't interesting. Cheers! Re-Spect!

By: jessHAHN

jessHAHN — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:38:22 +0000

I disagree with what some people are saying above about the other Pantera covers, because A7X's version was amazing [in my opinion].

And it's not as if they are slagging Dime off, as seen here, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub0Z-XPmYCg] M. Shadows [lead vocals] shouts "I wanna hear you scream this shit for Dime!" and after Synyster Gates [lead guitarist] won his Metal Hammer Young Shredder award he added "RIP Dimebag"; and A7X also wrote a song in memory of him about his murder called Betrayed.

So to the person above, Bear Essentials or whatever, they aren't all just doing it for the publicity. They actually have respect for Dime and were influenced by Pantera.

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By: Bear Essentials

Bear Essentials — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:48:42 +0000

Its not so much that they are playing a Pantera song, its more further pointing out how corperate Fall Out Boy are by tapping into whats popular these days!! It fucks me off as "walk" is fastly becoming the next "Enter Sandman" and all this HYPE seems to have come from dimebag dieing! Which is fucking wrong!! The same thing happened with Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain!!
I never saw anyone doing Pantera covers when dime was alive, now bands like Bullet For My Valentine, Avenged Sevenfold and Fall Out Boy are all doing it, and all these bands are commercial as fuck, with an average crowd age of about 15! Although i think its great that the kids get exposed to Pantera, i think its wrong for these bands to bastardise these tracks in hopes of extra popularity!
Now, if Black Label Society, Megadeth or Anthrax did a Pantera cover it would be a totally different reason, this is because they knew dime, played with him and are of a totally different level of respect than these youngsters looking for a piece of the corperate pie

By: dave texas

dave texas — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:23:47 +0000

the overreaction to this event is simple ridiculous. at least the damn weiner kids know Pantera a little bit. maybe they can use it as a gateway drug to other awesome heavy music. nothing wrong with that.

By: james and andy

james and andy — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:49:44 +0000

FALL OUT BOY RUINS EVERYTHING THEY SHOULD HAVE GAVE UP A LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGG TIME AGO FU FOB

By: dan

dan — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:41:03 +0000

haha.
thats prety good
i hate fall out boy and everytime i die but they did that prety well
i actually liked it lol
"gasp"

By: robertr

robertr — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:21:15 +0000

yikes people. Pantera was great, but in my opinion Walk is one of their lesser songs…and god forbid that a non-metal playing musician likes Pantera….

its all just fans clinging to old Pantera material. Hoarding it for themselves like a scarce commodity because we lost Dime and the other three are all washed up now.

By: Onezumi

Onezumi — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:14:34 +0000

Oops, my comment didn't post properly!

Well said. It is a shame when fans get too overzealous. I love Pantera, and frankly I haven't had the chance to hear FoB…but from what I understand they are a good band as far as pop goes.

Personally, I'd be flattered that something that was so hardcore was this resonant with this many people that it could be taken so well by FoB's fans. Also, the idea of girls singing this with the band…I love it.

By: Invisible Oranges

Invisible Oranges — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:58:10 +0000

The master stroke is getting teenage girls to yell the words to "Walk." When I saw Pantera play this, the crowd sounded about an octave lower.

By: K neeeeezy!

K neeeeezy! — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:28:22 +0000

All i gots to say is much love for all three bands. They all are great at what they do and did. Pantera for pumping out bad ass song after song. Keith for sweet shit his done in ETID and the boys from fall out boy for staying true to their roots. Look up their oooold ooooold shit…then maybe you all with stop your bitching. those guys have every right to cover that song. just look at Daryl from glassjaw…he not only can ripe shit up with glassjaw but as a softer side with head automatica. Theres alot of other music out there other then just BALLS TO THE FUCKIN BALLS METAAAAL! I love me some metal but shit, sometimes enoughs enough and you need to throw in sum softer stuff. Why dont metalheads get pissed when there beloved metal bands cover pop songs? They cover a song cuz they are fans of it…there fooooor fall out boys probably have shit loads of metal cds they listen to

By: jonathan

jonathan — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:55:16 +0000

i'm a huge metalhead, but far from a purist. I think fall out boy (at least their hits) are quite original compared to most of the emo/pop stuff out right now. their vocal style is somewhat original. yes, their instrumentation isn't terribly exciting, but the synth line in the background of "suga, we're going down" is well done, not to mention the production on their music is professional. I love pantera (all the time), keith buckley (much of the time), and fall out boy (some of the time). metal tends to be more consistent, but pop gets the job done some of the time. exactly

By: Jonnycore

Jonnycore — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:41:29 +0000

yeah too much of the closedmindness here, and we get enough of that from chavs/pikeys as it is, so what if they covered a Pantera song, before Fall Out Boy, did anyone of know Pete "with the big fake teeth" Wentz was in HARDCORE band Arma Angelus, and that boy can scream! So now he's in a band that has been embraced by pretty much everyone from radio plays, and he maybe "sucking on the popmusic cock" at the moment, but he's just getting paid, I'm sure none of you would ever say no to that!? and if you do then you're lying….

By: Brendan

Brendan — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:23:02 +0000

Not too happy about it, but c\'mon guys, no need to go that far, especially the dime comment, now THAT is blasphemy… who knows, maybe some of those kids traded in their fallouy boy shirt for a Pantera one? That\'s victory in my book.