IMMORTAL At the Heart of Winter Patch

Bergen, 1999. Abbath and Demonaz strip the black metal template back to its frozen bones and rebuild it into something colossal. At the Heart of Winter is the album that converted a lot of people who thought they didn't like black metal.

The patch pulls the album's artwork into wearable form, which means you're carrying a piece of Norwegian black metal history on your jacket. Immortal always sat slightly apart from the second-wave orthodoxy, more concerned with Blashyrkh, their own invented frozen kingdom, than with shock tactics. The music was the mythology, and this artwork captures that bleak, epic atmosphere perfectly. If your alternative fashion patches are heavy on the punk and light on the extreme metal, this is the corrective.

ALT CVLT patch. Measures 80mm wide x 100mm tall. Artist: Immortal, design: At the Heart of Winter. Country of origin: Norway. Genre: Black Metal. Fans of: Inquisition, Mayhem, Emperor, Enslaved.