DARKTHRONE Old Star Backpatch

Darkthrone have spent the last two decades doing exactly what they want, which after the black metal orthodoxy of the Unholy Trinity meant pivoting hard into speed metal, punk, and classic heavy metal without apologising to anyone. Old Star, the 2019 album, is them fully inhabiting that mode, doomy and cold and completely indifferent to trends.

The Old Star backpatch suits the record perfectly, bleak imagery for a band who have always treated the Norwegian black metal scene as a starting point rather than a ceiling. If your vest is getting serious, Darkthrone earns the back panel. The dark aesthetic here is less corpse paint theatrics and more the genuine bleakness of a band two members deep, recording in a basement, still making albums that matter. Fans of Bathory, Immortal, Gorgoroth, and the wider black metal and death metal underground will know exactly where to place this.

Official licensed woven sew-on back patch. Made in Norway.

Fans of: Bathory, Immortal, Gorgoroth, Taake, Burzum, Mayhem.