28 Metal Animal Memes That Would Headline Hellfest 2025 If They Had Thumbs

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Ayala Sorotsky • Writer and Editor
Jun 15, 2025 1:00 PM EDT

Welcome to Hellfest 2025, the loudest, fluffiest, and most claw-shredding music event that was ever unleashed upon the animal kingdom. This year's lineup is stacked with heavy hitters that bark, hiss, and headbang!

Headlining the stage is none other than Muttallica, the canine thrash legends with barks that melt faces. Following close behind are Meowdon, the feline sludge-metal powerhouse clawing their way through slow riffs and faster snacks. And if you're craving something punchier, brace yourself for Pawntera, the groove metal cats who only hiss in minor chords.

But wait, there's more! Slipcaw is bringing chaotic crowcore, Lamb of Duck is waddling in with quacks of rage, and Sonata Pawrctica is stomping the stage with their signature powerful zoomies. You'll also want to catch Pugsmoke, Nine Inch Squeals, and of course, Möuße, the rodent metal pioneers with squeaks that slay.

So throw up your paws, horns, or wings (whatever you've got) and get ready to scream. These metal animal memes prove that even without thumbs, the metal spirit lives strong in our fluffy, feathered, and scaly friends.

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    Scooby-Doom
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite

  • Listen to the doom metal band of de*d-faced dogs who howl in slow motion and tune their guitars lower than a Great Dane’s growl. With sludgey thick riffs and lyrics about existential squirrel chases in the woods, Scooby-Doom delivers true melancholic barkcore!

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    Dudes standing in the back during the opening band like
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
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    I heard you guys are into goths
    via @SuperMightyMM
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    please PLEASE always recycle your death metal logos, wildlife can get stuck in them and have trouble getting free
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
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    HOW TO TELL PEOPLE WHO WEAR ALL BLACK APART Old School Goth Fancy Dress Goth 00 Emo Sparkle Goth Punk Metal
    via @WholesomeMeme
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    DAY 28 THEY STILL DON'T KNOW I'M A DOG
    via @ChopsITMC4real
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    Motorcycle Gang
    via @CATBRAINCELL
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    Deathcore vocalists when the breakdown hits BLEGH!
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
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    SAD SHARK FACT: sharks can't listen to metal music
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
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    me peacefully sleeping while listening to death metal :
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
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    outside inside
    via @CATBRAINCELL
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    When your non-metal friends listen to metal with you.
    via helenisawesome
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    ENVIRONMENT ANIMALS WHALES ANIMAL UPRISING Orcas Pummel Boat After Crew Tries To Deter Them With Heavy Metal Music Blasting underwater tunes to try and keep killer whales away is a bad idea for multiple reasons, a researcher says. (slow heavy metal music playing)
    via @SpillTheMemes

  • Listen to Orcalyptica, the band that shreds the sea with orchestral whale metal. Their sonar solos hauntingly echo through the deep, making musht moshing and krill crowd-surfing. Their sound is symphonic metal but wetter, wilder, and sung in fluent whale scream.

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    No one: metal vocalists:
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
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    stage diving when the venue says "no moshing, no crowd surfing" Cam wave
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
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    5 minutes after showing my cat death metal
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
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    HOW I THINK I LOOK LIKE ENTERING A MOSHPIT EXPECTION REALITY
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
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    when they bring the nasty riff back, but slower
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
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    listening to my little black metal albums
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
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    meeting the band while wearing the band's merch BATHORY
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
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    my two brain cells enjoying brutal caveman death metal :
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
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    trve norwegian cvt metal
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
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    if the hardcore bands guitarist looks like this you are about to die in that pit
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
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    This lamb born with corpse paint looks like he's about to drop the sickest black metal album of the decade.
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
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    my taste in music me
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
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    the peace I feel listening to death metal
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
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    when the band is so heavy and disgusting you need to process what's happening
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
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    when your cat is more metal than you are
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite

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