Brian Manowitz, better known as Vegan Black Metal Chef, (Tampa, 1981?) is a cook, YouTuber and musician that uploads into YouTube cooking recipes videos with black metal music [1] singing the recipes. [2] His activity at YouTube as Vegan Black Metal Chef began in 2011. He records in Orlando, in a kitchen with a dungeon decor dressed in a peculiar way [1] (a vinyl armor). [3] He is a member of the music group Forever Dawn and is a keyboardist for the group Fields of Glass. [4]
When he was in college he quit eating meat. He studied behavior neuroscience at Gainesville. He moved to Orlando after finishing his studies. [1] He had the idea of Vegan Black Metal Chef when he thought of showing what vegans eat in a "simple" way. [4]
In 2013, Vegan Black Metal Chef was featured in truTV Presents: World's Dumbest... where his video was placed in #14 on the show's countdown of dumbest TV shows. [5]