Top 10 Metal Musicians Who Love Animals
Metal musicians are associated with dark and scary looks, tattoos, growling vocals, roaring guitars and so on.But behind this public image there's another truth - the truth about their soft side. Some metal musicians have dogs, some others - cats. A third group loves animals that are not dogs or cats. And last but not least, there are metal musicians who love animals in general and are animal rights activists.
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Alissa White-Gluz is a Canadian vocalist, best known as the former lead vocalist and one of the founding members of the Canadian metal band, The Agonist, and current lead vocalist for the Swedish melodic death metal group, Arch Enemy. She's at #1 because she loves animals in general. Alissa growls death metal vocals like a lion but she's an animal rights activist who takes part in international campaigns and received awards for her work. She has been a vegan since 1998.
Travis Ryan Collins, who goes by the stage name Travis Ryan, is an American musician known for being the vocalist of the Deathgrind band Cattle Decapitation. He is the singer and lyricist for deathgrind band Cattle Decapitation. You can make very wrong conclusions judging by their gory album covers, name of the metal subgenre and extremely aggressive heavy sound. You would probably misinterpret even their band name.
Their songs protest the mistreatment and consumption of animals, and the abuse of the environment. Travis Ryan is a vegetarian.
Joseph "Joe" Duplantier is a French musician best known as the guitarist and vocalist of metal band Gojira. Very vocal about his opposition to the whaling industry
Terence Michael Joseph "Geezer" Butler is an English musician and songwriter. Butler is best known as the bassist and primary lyricist of heavy metal band Black Sabbath. He loves cats and he's also a vegan.
Kirk Lee Hammett is the lead guitarist and songwriter for the heavy metal band Metallica and has been a member of the band since 1983. Before joining Metallica he formed and named the band Exodus. He likes dogs. When he was 11, he had a pet dog... but now get ready to read something disgusting: He witnessed his pet dog being raped by his next door neighbor! Hammett was left traumatized and recalled: "I went to my neighbor's. The guy took down his pants and started having sex with the dog! I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. When he got up, I just took the dog and left."
Philip Hansen "Phil" Anselmo is an American musician who is best known as the former lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Pantera. He currently is the vocalist of heavy metal bands Down and Superjoint Ritual. He resides in a rural property and keeps a number of animals, including dogs, cats, chickens and a variety of birds.
Ronnie James Dio (born Ronald James Padavona; July 10, 1942 – May 16, 2010) was an American heavy metal singer, songwriter and musician. He fronted and/or founded numerous groups including Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio and Heaven & Hell. He is credited with popularizing the "metal horns" hand gesture in metal culture and is known for his medieval themed lyrics. Dio possessed a powerful versatile vocal range capable of singing both hard rock and lighter ballads; according to Rainbow/Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore upon hearing him sing, "I felt shivers down my spine." Dio sold over 47 million albums throughout his career.
He died from stomach cancer in 2010 at the age of 67. Shepherd is a good choice for favorite animal
Charles Michael "Chuck" Schuldiner (1967-2001) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known as the founder and vocalist, guitarist and bassist of the American heavy metal band Death. He is considered the most influential figure in Death Metal, with some publications referring to Chuck as the "Godfather of Death Metal". Schuldiner died in December 13, 2001 of brain cancer, his death subsequently leading to the disbandment of Death, but has remained influential among many aspiring metal artists.
He was also known for his polite and life loving attitude and openly condemned stereotypes of metal musicians being harmful and evil. R.I.P. Chuck. One of the Godfathers of death metal loved animals, especially kittens.
He really loved kittens
Hansi Kürsch, born Hans Jürgen Kürsch, is the lead singer, lyricist, co-composer and bassist for German power metal band Blind Guardian . Heavily influenced by Freddie Mercury, he creates a huge choir effect by overdubbing his own voice multiple times in complex, overlapping vocal harmonies. He records each vocal track individually because harmonizers and "perfect pitch" programs don't work with his voice due to distortion and the natural double layer effects his vocal cords have .His early technique made use of a more aggressive and harsher, "screaming" technique . ...read more.
He's got a dog and loves walking his dog. Lyrics of the song 'Fiddler On The Green' (Demons & Wizards) are based on something sad he saw while walking his dog - he witnessed 2 car accidents that killed 2 kids in one week at the same intersection. Sad story and a sorrowful but beautiful ballad.
Paul Bruce Dickinson, known professionally as Bruce Dickinson, (born 7 August 1958) is an English musician, airline pilot, and broadcaster. He is most well known for being the lead singer in heavy metal band Iron Maiden and his solo career.Outside his career in music, Dickinson has pursued a number of other activities. He undertook a career as a commercial pilot for Astraeus Airlines, which led to a number of media-reported ventures such as captaining Iron Maiden's converted charter aeroplane, Ed Force One, during their world tours. Following Astraeus' closure, he created his own aircraft maintenance and pilot training company, Cardiff Aviation, in 2012. Dickinson presented his own radio show ...read more. Bruce owns a cat and a parrot. He also loves dogs and horses.
I guess he loves dogs, well I just think that
Kerry Ray King is an American musician, best known as a guitarist for the American thrash metal band Slayer. He is an avid snake collector who owns a reptile house and herpetology nursery called Psychotic Exotics.
Mickael Gordon "Mick" Thomson is an American heavy metal musician. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, he is best known as one of two guitarists in Slipknot, in which he is designated #7.
Bill Steer is a British guitar player, and co-founder of the extreme metal band Carcass. He is considered a pioneer and an essential contributor to grindcore and death metal due to his involvement in Napalm Death and Carcass, two of the most important bands of those genres.
Randall William "Randy" Rhoads was an American heavy metal guitarist who played with Ozzy Osbourne and Quiet Riot. He was killed in a plane crash.
Petrus Thomas Ratajczyk, better known by his stage name Peter Steele, was the lead singer, bassist and composer for the gothic metal band Type O Negative. Hated hunting, loved cats, dedicated songs to cats.
James Alan Hetfield was born on August 3, 1963. He is an American musician, singer and songwriter known for being the co-founder, lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist and main songwriter for the American heavy metal band Metallica. He loves cats also, Metallica has two cats: Tab and Frankie, they are almost always in their studio.
He loves dogs but he's also a hunter and he shouldn't be high on this list.