Metal cowboy

Oliver Hadlee Pearch photographs MaRock, Botswana’s leather cowboy metal subculture for i-D Magazine Winter 2022

Ma Rock. Heavy metal cowboy band in Botswana.

The heavy metal cowboy get-ups sported by Dennis Hopper in Easy Rider and Mel Gibson in Mad Max are probably best left somewhere in the 1980s. But in Sub-Saharan Africa, the art of dressing like you've just stepped out of a Metallica concert is still very much alive. South African photographer Fr

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The heavy metal cowboy get-ups sported by Dennis Hopper in Easy Rider and Mel Gibson in Mad Max are probably best left somewhere in the 1980s. But in Sub-Saharan Africa, the art of dressing like you've just stepped out of a Metallica concert is still very much alive. South African photographer Fr

“The heavy metal scene in Botswana is something else.”