Metal Hammer UK

MEET THE METAL MEOWLISHA

BETWEEN CANNIBAL CORPSE frontman George ‘Corpsegrinder’ Fisher’s obsession with winning plush toys in claw machines and donating them to charity, and Gojira’s environmental campaigns, death metal has a weird habit of producing extreme music’s loveliest people. Now we can add Obituary drummer Donald Tardy to those ranks. Although his day job involves smacking a kit with the sound of blaring guitars and big brother John’s growls in his ears, he moonlights as the co-leader of Metal Meowlisha, a charity that looks after stray cats in his hometown of Tampa, Florida.

Donald created the charity in 2004 with his wife, Heather, and it operates on a “trap – neuter – return”

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