(Better yet, go adopt a cat!) It’s sure to be a way better conversation piece than the latest issue of Home & Garden. So why not grab a copy and see members of Napalm Death, Obituary, Cattle Decapitation, Murder Construct, ISIS, Municipal Waste, Repulsion and lots more with their furry little kitties. You can rest assured that you can still be kvlt with a kitty. The metal dudes are pictured in or near their homes, reinforcing the fact that they’re just like us. Metal Cats is a visually pleasing flip-through (no words, just dudes) exposing a different side of metal than we see on stage. The only thing worse than a crazy cat lady is a crazy cat metal dude. Thankfully there are never more than two or three cats per human. There’s also quite a varied assortment of cats. There are big ones, small ones, long-haired, short-haired, no-haired, young and old, cute and ugly. The book showcases a wide aesthetic of not only the masters, but their humans too. Besides, this is way better than cat videos on YouTube.įrom Metal Cats by Alexandra Crockett, published by powerHouse Books Even the sweetest kitty will eat your eyeballs if you die in your sleep.īut the aim here is to show the softer side of metal, to pull back the curtain on metal’s humanity and most importantly to raise money and awareness for no-kill shelters.

But if you really think about it, cats are inherently evil. It’s actually surprising that there is such a relationship between metaldom and cats. Photographer, musician, and jewellery designer Alexandra Crockett has compiled what is more or less a coffee table book of metal musicians and others in the scene (like visual artists) with their cats. Now, most of the readers of this site know that to be untrue, but the Metal Cats book sheds a different light on the long-haired and tattooed.

This in turn leads to the assumption that metal musicians (and their fans) are also guilty. In general, metal gets a bad rap as being the Devil’s music or evil in nature.

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