Veganism Is Metal As F@#$! | Vegan Black Metal Chef

You may think being vegan is the right thing
to do, that it’s compassionate and responsible,

good for the environment, the planet, your
own health and, of course the animals. But

did you also know that veganism is metal as
f&*%?

Hi it’s Emily from Bite Size Vegan and welcome
to another vegan nugget. As some of you know,

I was recently in Orlando Florida and had
the pleasure of meeting up with two awesome

vegan YouTubers, Tino from the channels Bananiac
and Symposium Films and Brian the Vegan Black

Metal Chef.

Two weeks ago I brought you my interview with
Tino and his corresponding interview with

me on his channel.

And today, I’m excited to share with you
my interview with the dark lord of YouTube

himself, the Vegan Black Metal Chef. You may
be familiar with him in his more “metaly”

incarnation but today we get to take a look
behind the faux leather and vegan makeup to hear

from the man behind the Metal Chef.

Right, so I am here today with Brian,
the Vegan Black Metal Chef who you might know

from You Tube fame on his channel. We’re
just going to talk a little bit about his

story. So, thank you so much for coming here.

Thanks for having me.

Yeah, so I would like, can you just
talk a little bit like what made you go vegan

and what the process was like for you starting
out.

Wow. Sure. I think I have the most
typical ‘why I went vegan story’ in all

of existence. In high school, late high school
I had a girlfriend at the time that went vegetarian

and at that time I said, ‘ you know what?
I see that as the right way to go but I’m

not ready for that yet’ so I didn’t go
vegetarian or vegan or anything. Then, in

my first year of college, I looked back a
year later and I said ‘well, she didn’t

die and so well if she didn’t die and I
realized that it’s the right way to go then

really, what am I so afraid of?’ And I really
recognized that as a fear within myself and

I couldn’t live with this low level fear.
It wasn’t a fear for my life, it wasn’t

a fear for anything, it was a fear of not
eating meat and a fear of the social conditioning

around it so I just kind of faced that fear
and I went vegetarian for about 2 or 3 months

and I attended an animal rights group at the
University of Florida where I was going at

the time called “Animal Activists of Alachua”
and saw a few videos and went vegan.

So, can you talk a little
bit about the development of your channel,

like how did you come to this idea of ‘Alright,
I’m going to make a cooking show that is

like a black metal show at the same time.

Brian: Yeah, absolutely, the time was three
plus years ago, a little more than three years

ago when the channel first started and I said
‘well, I’ve been vegan for about 14 or

so years and at that time, I’d been vegan
about eleven or so years, well, I’ve been

vegan for a decent amount of time I think
my meals taste awesome, they’re not very

difficult to make and they’re really cheap
and so it’s everything that people think

veganism isn’t so I said the world needs to
know about this in some way. I thought about

doing a regular cooking show but they kind
of put me to sleep so I just really combined

my passions of music and black metal music
in particular with the vegan cooking and made

the cooking show I wanted to see and luckily
a few other people wanted to see it too.

So I think it’s an interesting
marriage between vegan cooking and black metal.

What would you say, it’s kind of a weird
question, what would you say, if veganism

is metal, and if so, like, I don’t know,
do you feel like they converged really well together?

Well, I think veganism is as metal
as fuck, but do they really ultimately have

anything to do with each other? I guess you
can have some sparse connection, ultimately,

I don't think they necessarily have… especially
the black metal music doesn't necessarily

have anything to do directly with veganism.
It’s just the music that I like and the

show I wanted to see. But veganism is as metal
as fuck. That’s good. I‘m glad we got

that, as noted by many other metal musicians
out there already who are vegan. Really? Can

you like name some of them? Well actually,
just in Revolver magazine recently, Alissa

White-Gluz it either Alisha or Alicia, I always
get it wrong, and her boyfriend Doyle from

The Misfits did a whole section about health
and metal eating and she says that Doyle eats

mostly vegan when I chatted with her and it’s
really cool to see the both of them, they

both workout like crazy and Doyle’s like
the biggest dude in existence. Angela Gossow,

the previous singer of Arch Enemy is also
vegan. There’s a number of others here and

there from the guys from Creator, the bassist
of Black Sabbath and a few others.

If someone came to you and they were
just trying to start out on their vegan path,

what kind of guidance would you give someone
about how to become vegan and to stay that

way.

Absolutely, well actually, I wrote
an entire article about this on my website;

veganblackmetalchef.com - How to be vegan.
It’s just along the little top bar there

on the website. First off, just start bringing
consciousness to your actions if you're not

vegan currently, you're eating a non-vegan
meal. Think about where the meal came from.

A lot of people go endlessly with ever thinking
about these things. And if you want to become

vegan, there can’t be a struggle with being
vegan. There’s no struggle in my life with

oh - it’s a restrictive life. It’s not
a restrictive diet, I haven’t even tried

all the vegan choices yet. There are so many
incredible things to eat. There’s no struggle,

there’s no cutting out. There’s really
an exploration of what plant-based choices

you can find and can make. And so really,
just making consciousness to the meal and

consciousness to your actions will make you
think okay where did this come from or how

is everything affected by me eating this meal
or really the main key on how to stay vegan

and how to stay vegan is it has to hurt more
to eat the meal than it would to not.

Well I want to thank, Brian you so
much for your time. Do you want to tell people

how to find you?

Just Google Vegan Black Metal Chef
or veganblackmetalchef.com or Vegan Black

Metal Chef on You Tube.

Alright. Thank you very much for your
time.

Thank you Emily.

I don’t know why- I felt like the
need to do that.

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interview with me on his channel. Again they

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did them at the same time. But they’re two

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