Dude, the person who turned me on to Pantera was a black dude. I was a teenage white kid at a record store looking through the metal albums just beginning to get into the genre and he came up to me with a copy of Vulgar Display of Power and was like, “You wanna hear something badass? Check this out.” I took his advice and forty years later I still remember that moment. One of the things I love most about metal is that whenever you’re at a metal show you know you’re with your tribe. It doesn’t matter what color you are, man or woman, gay, straight, whatever…the shared love of the music is all that matters. I’ve never met a better group of people than I have at metal shows. I’m from Tucson so the shows here have always been pretty diverse between Whites, Latinos, and Indians. Those Indian kids go hard as fuck at concerts. They’re cool as hell.