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Metallica Death T-shirt
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Measurements
Pit-to-Pit: 21"
Length: 28.5"
Fits like: L
Condition
Vintage. Shows character consistent with age.
The Details
Four sepia portraits, four pairs of crossed arms, nobody smiling — and the tell is the hair: it's gone. These are Load-era photographs, 1996, the year Metallica traded a decade of thrash-length hair for barbershop cuts and got treated like defectors for it, which makes this the rare band shirt where a haircut is the loudest thing in the frame. The stance has a pedigree: collectors know a 1992 crossed-arms Metallica design filed under "Birth School Metallica Death," the era's blunt summary of a fan's biography, and this print restages that pose with the shorn late-90s band — arms folded against everything being said about them at the time. Loose white doodle figures ride each sleeve. Whatever you think of the records, the image holds: four men mid-way through metal's most contested pivot, shot like mugshots, daring you to say it to their faces.
Black short sleeve cotton tee with Metallica Death graphic.
Sourcing
We source these shirts from thrift stores, estate sales, and directly from bootleg and overprint collectors.
$50.00