40+ Metal Animal Memes That Go Harder and Wilder Than Wacken 2025’s Headliners

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Ayala Sorotsky • Writer and Editor
Jul 23, 2025 2:00 PM EDT

Welcome to the wild version of Wacken Open Air 2025 - the loudest, furriest, most face-melting metal fest in the wild animal kingdom! Where the amps are cranked to 11, the mosh pit is full of mud-loving piglets, and the lineup is claw-droppingly good.

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    pushing the crowd aside to get into that mosh pit:
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite

  • This year, we're headbanging with Muttallica - thrash metal dogs who shred bones and guitars alike. Sharing the main stage: Iron Meowden, feline legends with 9 lives and heavy riffs. Need more bark? Slayterrier is bringing the chaos, alongside Rammmeeestein, a herd of pyrotechnic-loving sheep guaranteed to light things up.

  • 02
    I don't know their musical style, but I'd buy this album
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite

  • Don't miss Gojiraffe - towering neck solos incoming. Or Lamb of Goat, the holy union of headbutts and blast beats. Feeling spooky? Ghost Possum is creeping in with their haunting southern squeaks.

  • 03
    SAD SHARK FACT: sharks can't listen to metal music
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite

  • Every creature from the animal kingdom is letting loose - bats, goats, parrots and raccoons - and trust us, the only thing heavier than the riffs is the combined weight of the band's tour snacks.

  • 04
    please PLEASE always recycle your death metal logos, wildlife can get stuck in them and have trouble getting free
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite

  • So raise your paws, claws, and talons high - and prepare to enter the pit. Because at Wacken, even the wildlife goes wild.

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    No one: metal vocalists:
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
  • 06
    MEET THE VOCALIST FOR MY BAND
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
  • 07
    when your friends say "metal is just noise" and you gotta play it cool but in reality you wanna fight everybody
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
  • 08
    DEATH METAL ME
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
  • 09
    metalheads the same breakdown for 10 years
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
  • 10
    Listens to Slipknot once:
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
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    When your cat loves Slipknot
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite

  • Slipknot turns into Slipclaw once your cat takes control of the playlist. Prepurr your ears - it's going to get meowing loud in here.

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    This dog is trained to sniff out people who have great taste in music. coded
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
  • 13
    when your cat is more metal than you are
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
  • 14
    Scooby-Doom
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
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    how it feels when the metal hits:
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
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    when your long-lost cat finally returns home Hanneman QUALITY
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
  • 17
    listening to tech death feels like :
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
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    if the bands guitarist looks like this you are about to di in that pit
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
  • 19
    5 minutes after showing my cat death metal
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
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    when the riff is nasty
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
  • 21
    Dudes standing in the back during the opening band like
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
  • 22
    Deathcore vocalists when the breakdown hits BLEGH!
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
  • 23
    me: introduces cat to metal music 5 minutes later:
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
  • 24
    HOW I THINK I LOOK LIKE ENTERING A MOSHPIT EXPECTION REALITY
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
  • 25
    sneaking some death metal onto a normies party playlist and then just sitting waiting for their reaction like
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
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    when they bring the nasty riff back, but slower
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
  • 27
    my two brain cells enjoying brutal caveman death metal:
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
  • 28
    me peacefully sleeping while listening to death metal :
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite

  • Good night, sleep tight, dream dark dreams.

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    my dog listening to me play the same riff 100 times
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
  • 30
    Me enjoiyng the concert The dronk guy starting a moshpit
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite

  • Looks like a wildly regular mosh pit to us, no?

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    Me my death metal playlist
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
  • 32
    the peace I feel listening to death metal
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
  • 33
    trve norwegian cvt metal
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
  • 34
    This lamb born with corpse paint looks like he's about to drop the sickest black metal album of the decade.
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
  • 35
    stage diving when the venue says "no moshing, no crowd surfing" Cam wave
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
  • 36
    my taste in music me
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
  • 37
    when the band is so heavy and disgusting you need to process what's happening
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
  • 38
    When you're metal but it's only the 1800s.
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
  • 39
    meeting the band while wearing the band's merch BATHORY
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
  • 40
    listening to my little black metal albums
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
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    When they bring that nasty riff back, but slower
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite
  • 42
    (slow heavy metal music playing)
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite

  • When you bring your kid to a show and let them experience it all on your shoulders.

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    extreme metal non-metalheads that are "into all types of music"
    via @TheCirclePitWebsite

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