Extreme Metal's Bankable Antics #1: To microplastic or not to microplastic?
How can one fight pollution with pollution? By way of capitalism, of course! In this blog series, I intend to discuss paradoxical or ironic situations within extreme metal culture which stem from the market pressures specific to that kind of music. This Cattle Decapitation piece of synthetic merchandise is a perfect example of that. A few years ago, my significant other showed me a neat "all-over print" Cattle Decapitation shirt she had previously purchased. The shirt was designed after "The Anthropocene Extinction", an album graphically exploring the bleak results of human littering and pollution. She had regrets about buying it, not so much for the music it refers to (although we both have some qualms about that too!), but rather for the textile being polyester. She explained that synthetic clothes deteriorate with every wash and thus produce small plastic particles which then go in the water and pollute the oceans. Paradoxically, this was a case of a band calli
