You might not think that a band with the name Cattle Decapitation would be dedicated to helping animals and the environment, but you'd be surprised. The San Diego metal band plays a ferocious blend of death metal and grindcore, but they also have an earth-friendly message buried beneath the mountains of guitars and gutteral vocals. Many of their albums have an anti-human, pro-animal message (the cover for Humanure depicts a cow excreting...well, just look it up on Google Image Search if you really want to know), and their website has links to the People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the US Humane Society, and Spay USA, which provides info on places to get your pets spayed and neutered.
Most interestingly, though, they are also supporters of something called the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHMET, pronounced "vehement"). According to their website, VHMET calls for humans to voluntarily stop breeding so that the human race will eventually die out on its own, allowing the Earth to recover and flourish. Their motto? "May we live long and die out." Such a view may seem unbelievable and insane at first, but can it really be anymore crazy than a band called Cattle Decapitation that sings about saving animals?
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There's definitely an ecological side to many Death Metal, Black Metal, Grindcore, Punk Rock bands. The side we mostly see is the one against what human culture has become. A hidden side of conscious bands often gets ignored -- the one seeking a better world for all life. Voluntary human extinction is a natural aspect for these groups, and others include the concept. Here are three more:
Elekore
http://www.syrphe.com/music/bibliography/elekore.htm
Gosforth
http://www.black-blood.com/website/RELEASES/BBP011.html
Iconcide
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.cfm?bandID=278189&songID=1935543
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