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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