Your favourite rock and metal memes of the year

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The ten best rock and metal memes of 2015 as chosen by YOU

We asked the Metal Hammer Facebook community for their top rock and metal memes of 2015 and they replied with hundreds of pics from all corners of the web covering all aspects of rock and metal (although there was a lot of Abbath). Here are the ten most popular memes of the year as chosen by Hammer’s Facebook followers. Set faces to lol.

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