CONVERTING Punk Fan to Pantera Fan - Cemetery Gates (REACTION)

[@da9pauly]

Groove Metal is what Pantera is classified as

[@DastardlyHamster]

You're super right, I didn't know what to call it! Thanks for your informative comment! ~Mika

[@VelvetViolator]

that's the shortened single version

[@tomking7080]

Phil has one of the greatest rock/metal voices ever. His range is incredible. At the end with the 3 “Gates” he hits a G5 which is incredibly difficult for a professional woman tenor to hit but Phil pulls it off cleanly. It’s not tinny like mosts people who try and hit this very high note. Phil is in my Top 5 rock/metal voices of all time. Layne Staley ,Chris Cornell,Eddie Vedder and Mike Patton(from Faith No More as he replaced Courtney Love as the second lead vocalist after Love which many people don’t know. Chris Cornell also tried out for the band) and Mr. Bungle which is a wild band.

[@Mr101beers]

Always a punk rock fan and I heard this song on cassette in the early 90s and it made me a Pantera Fan. The thing that sealed the deal was it was followed by Domination that just matched again.

[@DastardlyHamster]

Those are both awesome songs! ~Mika

[@america1st721]

"good friends and a bottle of pills" amazing song with an amazing message.

[@kitsimmonds.344]

Iron Maiden, have never been 'hair metal', not even close.... in the mid 80's they did experiment with prog metal with Somewere in Time and Seveneth Son which was when hair metal was at it's height. Best album was Peice of Mind which again is somewhat experimental but a true work of art.

[@DastardlyHamster]

We're still learning, thanks for letting us know! ~Mika

[@kitsimmonds.344]

@@DastardlyHamster No problem. Iron Maiden have been a bit hard to put in a box at times, their first singer was a bit more like a good punk artist then when they changed to Bruce Dickenson their sound also evolved at the same time. Bruce Dickenson is actually a classically trained opera singer hence his distinctive style, he really is/was an outstanding singer. They did share an asthetic with hair metal bands but not sound. My favorate metal album is Metalica's 'Ride the Lightening' which is awesome you should check that out...

[@andyb1653]

Maiden is quintessential NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal). NWOBHM had a large influence on the Hair/Glam Metal that came along a bit later, so there's quite a bit of overlap.

[@jzl2003]

it's more an 80s sentiment mixing into 80s thrash. The 90s aspect is the groovy heavy riffs. Grunge is not a factor here. great review!

[@DastardlyHamster]

Thanks for your great comment! ~Mika

[@dtony3113]

NEVER PAUSE A SOLO!!!!!!!!!!!

[@DastardlyHamster]

I have learned my lesson, won't happen again. ~Liam

[@nofilternofks333]

You're not doing your job properly and trying to convert this guy over to metal or Pantera because one of the main number one rules is you do not pause during a solo under any circumstances whatsoever especially a Dimebag solo

[@echtigren8188]

😂seriously, I hate that

[@toniobolonio]

And to not do the full version… robbing this guy of great music.

[@matthewrowe6895]

And it's only a 4 man band to backing guitar one guitar 🎸 player not two buddy

[@theotherLewbowski]

Amen brother

[@andyb1653]

RIP Dimebag, perhaps the greatest guitar player of his generation. Certainly one of the most creative.

[@motorheadbanger405]

6:00 "Hair Metal" & Iron Maiden????🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@stephensmith2736]

As Dime would say you need a Shot.

[@marvelmite1]

New follower going back watching the old videos. Haven't gotten to the suicidal tendencies videos yet. Interested to see who is offering them up, since they're a hardcore/ thrash crossover band. Started as punk, moved to metal. Should be a reeves moment, you got your punk my metal, you got your metal in my punk (you both seem younger than me and that reference predates me, hopefully it hits)

[@marvelmite1]

Also, long time metal and punk fan, so your premise scratches all kinds of itches for me (though I will point out, I'm a music history need and some mild inaccuracies you make irk me a little, I'll try to not get petulant like some others in the comments)

[@markpyle3710]

1st time watching. I enjoyed the whole format. Didn't agree on the whole "Grunge" Feeling though. Keep it going. Im about to subscribe

[@DastardlyHamster]

Glad you like the format! Thanks for the sub! ~Liam

[@MsCruisein]

Grunge metal? I also don't think Iron Maiden is "hair metal." Hair metal is a made up term for glam metal, which is what The Sweet, T-Rex, Motley Crue, Poison, that ilk is. Men in makeup and women's clothing with guitars. People didn't even call it hair metal until the 2000s, and its meant to be an insult about style over substance. Glam metal is cool in its own way. There are high, belty, clean singers like Halford, Dio, Dickinson, etc. and there are guttural, throaty, growly, barky, squealy singers in metal and Phil happens to be all of the above. His singing influenced everything happening during and after Pantera. Dimebag's guitar is something all its own. Very unique and instantly recognizable.

[@Samford_]

i generally wouldn't recommend watching the music videos unless theyre live songs. this song cut out the intro, which completely changes the context of the song. the main riff isn't nearly as cool without the intro

[@dennisrichards2604]

Singer Phil was a Judas Priest fan, thats where the high vocal influence comes from. He'd kick yer ass if he heard you call it grunge metal lol. They HATED grunge for the most part. Pantera took the metal flag from Metallica when they went Black Album and ran with it. This band flew the metal flag thru the 90's and have influence over most metal bands that have come since.

[@NickPyke-ee4xk]

Before Phil came onto vocals, members of pantera were a hair metal band, not sure if called the same name at that time. Phil brought range and a place for dimebag to go heavier

[@emilycassi1495]

Unfortunately most reactors do the official video but what these reactors don't realize is that the official version cuts about 2 minutes off the version. The first 2 minutes on the lyric version is so great. Beautiful acoustic and electric guitar at the beginning of the song. It's such a shame that the 2 minutes were cut off. Such a beautiful beginning. Younger generations are too used to listening to so-called music that is made by using a computer to produce a best. A lot of these people do not use guitars, drums, etc and other musical instruments. I don't know how many times I have come across reactors who have no idea if a guitar is being played because they haven't heard that sound. They grow up in a generation that, as far as I'm concerned, is musically lazy and inept. It's scary to leave music from such talented musicians in the hands of these young people who have no idea of the importance. You see bands like Metallica, AC/DC, Iron Maiden and many others who started in the 70's and 80's and are still touring and recording after 40 and 50 years. The fact that Metallica and AC/DC and Iron Maiden are still filling up stadiums to this day shows their amazing musicality and importance to the world. You won't find him hop artists or pop artists or even current newer rock bands that will last and be popular thru all age groups like the old masters. You can start researching bands from the 70's and 80's that are still playing and will be amazed how many there are. Queen, Def Leppard, Pantera are just a few others still playing stadiums and putting out music. Sorry for my novel here but my point is that they don't make amazing music like they used to today unless it's the original artist still playing. Long live the great music if the past and hope that current and future generations are wise enough to save the music and take care of it. 🤔🫣🥺

[@SteveSmallwoodthemachine]

Was just going to say this

[@johnnywrath6969]

Punk fans are used to 30 second songs. I disagree a super long intro will help convert a punk fan.

[@Popskull-yl9gn]

Wow . I'm glad they met what you expected

[@TimothyLaBard]

The full version is better.

[@justinkase1360]

He would dislike it even more, he is hung up on how long songs are. His playlist must be mostly 3 min songs.

[@EBear-nt2li]

Yep. If he heard the full 7 minute version of the song, he would have heard that incredible minute and a half introduction, which this version totally skips over, and it would have way better justified the total length of the song for him.

[@wethepeople6642]

Dimebag wrote the solo when he was blacked out Drunk! Absolute God on Guitar!!! 🤘🤘🤘

[@boywonderrr71]

Pantera Walk is hard!! Love Phil and the bros, sadly Dimebag Darrel, the master guitarist, was murdered during a show by a mental patient who walked on stage with a gun. After the death of Darrel, his brother on the drums and The Pantera team kicked out Phil joined the Mudvayne lead singer and bassist to make Hellyeah.

[@da9pauly]

Gotta react to Tool songs The Pot, Schism, Lateralus, Sober, 46&2 Tool is a progressive metal band known for having longer songs with odd time signatures Tool also has a huge fan base known as the Tool Army.

[@DastardlyHamster]

Yeah, Liam totally needs to hear these! They're on the list, please stay tuned! ~Mika

[@doksooli]

Pantera has nothing to do with grunge. It's more like an early Judas Priest under steroids. ^^

[@markpyle3710]

And this Punk fan Looks like Nikki Sixx...Just Sayin'

[@boywonderrr71]

Mudvayne should get a definite listen too. Dig off LD50 is so hard, then their mellower stuff like Happy is sublime, as is A World So Cold.

[@heathen-heart]

"hair metal like iron maiden" ???? WTF?? are you insane?

[@mrmetal0251]

Maiden is far from a hair band

[@joealvarez8733]

Groove Metalis the genre they created/perfected....Dimebag is the Best Metal guitarist in Summerland/the Afterlife....

[@jeremeywilson2318]

I was lucky enough to see Pantera twice in 96’ 🤘🏼 The first time was with White Zombie & the other was with Biohazard & Neurosis!! No matter where I go I’m usually listening to either Pantera or Alice In Chains!

[@DastardlyHamster]

That's awesome that you got to see them! ~Mika

[@ModoTronic666]

If this lady is a Pantera fan, I am extremely disappointed in her. No one tells anybody to watch this video because the intro is removed. And the intro is a very important part.

[@calseeor]

loving your reviews. :) No disrespect in my below comments, just as an original Metal Head who grew up through the start of metal up to today, I am trying to clarify things: What Phil did is considered a metal scream. Iron Maiden is not hair metal they are Heavy Metal (they were around before all the subgenres). Glam Metal are bands like Poison, Bon Jovi, Cinderella, Lita Ford. Metal did not become the guttural growls, what happened is that subgenres of metal formed in which singers would sing that way. To this day, metal is not all, or even mostly, guttural growling, it's still just a subgenre. I'm assuming that style of metal is your favorite or what you grew up with, Mika? Pantera never got into grunge, they stayed metal from Cowboys In Hell to the end. They were classified as Thrash Metal (after their 4 glam metal albums prior to Cowboys Form Hell) They did popularize (and some say create) Groove Metal. Their first 4 albums, prior to Cowboys From Hell, were straight up rock/glam rock. Grunge is bands like Alice In Chains, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc.

[@johnlheneghan1630]

Don’t forget Dimebag, He had his own style. The ending where they compete with each other is classic.

[@DastardlyHamster]

I am still learning the correct terminology. Thank you for this informative reply!! ~Mika

[@laurenfazenbaker9777]

Grunge metal? Naw fam. GROOVE metal. Lmao calling Iron Maiden a hair metal band. They're power metal. Hair metal is WASP, Twisted Sister, Motley Crue, Cinderella, Poison, Skid Row, Guns N Roses, and basically ALL the bands I hated in the 80s. I was more of a Slayer, Sepultura, Death, Cannibal Corpse, Exodus, Testament, Obituary, Megadeth, Sacred Reich, Kreator, Anthrax, MOD, SOD, Vio-lence, etc type in the 80s.

[@caseyparker7758]

There’s only one guitarist. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@andyb1653]

Too bad you used the "video" version that cuts out the acoustic intro. It's one of my favorite parts of the song, feels like a thunderstorm looming on the horizon.

[@justinkase1360]

I'm a huge pantera fan, but maybe they aren't for everyone. Many people, but maybe not darstardly here...sucks for him but I appreciate the honesty from him. He reminds me of Destiny (sorry), but I'm sure he's gotten that before.

[@DastardlyHamster]

Check out his reaction to Domination if you haven't already! ~Mika

[@frankmartell2063]

The guitar player was a ace freaked fanatic from the band kiss he was buried in a kiss coffin and there is no other second guitarist

[@frankmartell2063]

Ace frehley fanatic

[@isaacthomas2955]

I got into pantera because of being a psycho boy at heart with Suicidal Tendencies

[@PS-dp8yg]

You should try listening to Strength Beyond Strength by Pantera. It's more of a hardcore song.

[@harrydaniels3146]

Why does no one play whole song. Skip beginning again

[@mattblatchley2061]

the ACTUAL version is like 6 minutes long...😝...WE love that SHITE

[@MarkSmith-ws1mb]

Dastardly needs to hear Judas Priest Pain Killer to get a good solo to song ratio.

[@frankmartell2063]

This song came out in the 90s

[@stamaalexgabriel2262]

Maybe groove metal, grunge in not metal, just a bad joke...

[@normannichols8736]

Generic?

[@joshlorenson2059]

They are considered groove metal

[@isaacthomas2955]

That's funny cowboys from hell tour was with st

[@mattblatchley2061]

his "operatic tone" was old school metal...Rob Halford, Bruce Dickenson...YES YOU GOT IT!!!!!

[@mattblatchley2061]

do "Walk" for Christ's sake

[@thomasharris4942]

Metal is actually very operatic, Wagnerian operatic

[@echtigren8188]

How in the hell does a person who loves pnk not know who Pantera is? I mean, C'mon dude, seriously? Although I love some Punk I gotta say I'm on Mikas side

[@JamieLycronisMcCutchen]

Lose the loser!

[@gleneckert1]

😆cmon man

[@randyhanner3188]

Grunge huh???

[@sonusworld666]

It’s called Groove/Thrash Metal not Grunge Metal -- Maiden was hair Metal ?????? Are you for real ?????? They were ALWAYS Heavy Metal and were the leaders of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal or NWOBHM movement at the time . FYI Pantera did start out as a glam or hair Metal band but the 80’s Thrash Metal scene influenced Pantera to go Heavier with their sound and they were the Bridge between Thrash and Groove Metal- Get your Facts straight before you open your mouth!!!!!!!

[@kyle3700]

Yes these people are ignorant

[@mandomendez5618]

Young girl, you don't know what the hell ur talking about, grunge metal!!!WTF??? and then u insulted iron maiden by calling them hair metal,go back to listening to matchbox 20😂😂😂

[@lynns.910]

Your Thinking of Thrash Metal not Grunge .. my dear

[@artfig5340]

Listen to Metallica for justifiable more than 5 minutes songs!

[@kahunajordan3481]

This guy doesn't know shit about music

[@NatPat-yj2or]

What's the matter with you for skipping in the middle of the f***ing guitar solo? Never interrupt a guitar solo. EVER.

[@kyle3700]

Your reaction blows

[@jareklewczuk3627]

Iron Maiden was never hair metal but classic heavy metal. And Pantera is not grunge at all. You won't find any aggression and brutal riffs that Pantera is mostly known of in grunge bands. Back then they were considered as thrash metal. Different than other big thrash bands but still. Greetings from Poland!

[@psycojuggalo1642]

Pantera is GROOVE METAL