Death Metal Band Isn’t Pro-Animal, They’re Just Anti-Human
Posted by Drew.
Every year Worcester hosts the New England Metal and Hardcore festival. For a couple days the Palladium is packed with metal heads and hardcore kids. A couple of years ago I had a table there with info about vegetarianism and animal rights. There are usually a bunch of bands who are big supporters of animal rights. Apparently one of them is trying to shake that image: Cattle Decapitation. They’re tired of people thinking they’re just an animal rights band.
A writer for MetalSucks.net caught up with the members of Cattle Decapitation when they were in Worcester to ask them about their veg ways and what they think about being pegged as a vegan band.
Cattle Decapitation is a little bummed that they’re getting pegged as a bunch of vegetarian activist types. Sure, they’re all vegetarians. And sure, they care about animal rights. Yeah, their first couple of albums were about animal rights. Alright, so they did an interview with peta2 talking about why they’re vegetarian and why animal rights is important to them. Ok, so their band is called Cattle Decapitation. But why do we all think they’re an animal rights band? They’re being misunderstood! Josh Elmore explains, “in the past seven years, it’s all been anti-human rather than any sort of animal rights kind of thing.” Oh, ok.
Awesome.
May 13, 2009
Tags: music, Worcester Posted in: Animal Rights, Leafleting, Tabling & Outreach
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Loved this review by John “Mountain Goats” Darnielle: All Superlatives Ever All At Once
There’s an obvious Hare Krishna connection there. That cow/man with the axe pic is a Hare Krishna illustration of karma, and the little pics around it look to be depictions of Visnu avatars copied from Bhagavad-gita (hard to see on my BlackBerry screen). I guess they turned bad. Hare Krishnas aren’t anti-human. I don’t even know what that means.
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