All That Remains frontman Phil Labonte has made some fairly homophobic comments in the past, even though he's not a homophobe. Those coupled with outright ridiculous defenses of slurs has made him somewhat of a fan favorite with both ourselves and our readers, sarcastically and truthfully depending on your world view. While Labonte refuses to talk to us, I think it's interesting that Labonte flat out talks to Pure Grain Audio about the time he signed a dude's dick at a show.
"There was a time that I signed a dude's dick. That was really weird. This dude was, like, 'Sign my dick.' And I was, like, 'No I'm not signing your dick.' And he was, like, 'Come on! You've gotta sign my dick.' We were shooting a DVD, and they got a shot of this guy on the DVD, but I was, like, 'I really don't want to sign your dick.' But then I was, like, 'Fuck, alright.' It wasn't easy, because it was all flaccid and probably sweaty. I didn't touch it; I used a marker, obviously."
It's cool though! It's a good thing he clarified that he didn't touch it, because we'd think less of him… or something? I don't know. Now we await the post from Phil where he talks about how it totally wasn't gay and that you can use the word "faggot" because only certain people can be offended by slurs. Since he won't talk to us, we implore all male Metal Injection junkies to All That Remains signings to offer Phil their dick to sign.
