Artwear: Series One
Since the 70s we've defined the aesthetics of mature scifi and fantasy, horror and fantastica, long before anyone had words for it. It's been copied, imitated, went in, out, and back into fashion. Now we turn it into wearable art.
Strange House, Dwiky KA, and Defame created the first Heavy Metal Artwear Series. each artist interpreting the legacy of Heavy Metal through hand-painted, original artwork on luxurious heavyweight cotton.
This isn’t just some merch. Three artists bled pure imagination onto the canvas. You can't put art on a conveyor belt, so we made a diabolically small number - just 666 shirts per design. Each individually numbered.
No reruns. No reprints. No restocks.
Fewer remain each day.
SERIES ONE FEATURES THREE WORKS OF ART
Inspired by the works of Frank Frazetta and Moebius, adventures of Taarna, and the Heavy Metal Magazine's dedicated and loyal community, three artists from around the world collaborated with us to deliver a limited run of wearable art.
Meet the Artists
Dwiky Ka
Dwiky KA is an illustrator and visual artist from Indonesia. His work explores the connection between technology and rebellion and his unique style comes from his love of science fiction, hardcore humor, and the comic aesthetic.
Dwiky has exhibited his work in galleries and commissioned for several art exhibitions around the globe. In 2019 his gigantic work ‘x-spiderpunx’ was selected for the Instrumenta Festival and displayed at the National Gallery of Indonesia. In 2021 he had a solo exhibition "LABRAX" in Gallery-X Parco Shibuya, Japan, and was the first Indonesian artist to collaborate with VANS. He has worked with a wide variety of artists, brands & publications including, Fuji Rock Festival, Marvel, Hysteric Glamour, Atmos, Dropdead, Pleasures, Clarks, Pantera, Ho99o9, Warren Lotas & Rolling Stone magazine.
Dwiky was nominated as NEXT 100 visual artist from Hypebeast in 2022 and for the Young Artist Award 2023 in Indonesia.
Strange House
Enter the mesmerizing and nightmarish world of Joonas Ryynänen, also known as Strange House, a Finnish artist renowned for his intricate and haunting Dark Fantasy illustrations.
A true icon of the underground scene, Strange House has captivated fans of metal, horror, and dark fantasy with his dense, meticulously detailed compositions.
His art, rich in shadowy textures and eerie atmospheres, evokes a sense of both dread and fascination, drawing inspiration from myth, nightmare, and the grotesque.
Defame
"My name is neither here nor there, you may refer to me as ‘Defame’. I am an artist, channeling from the ethereal energies I create, I alchemize-solve then coagulate. My age is of no importance, the place of my birth or the residence of my belonging, my status, or my opinions, I am, that I am. I aspire to inspire, thus I have been inspired. Therefore, I construct and conduct that which incites me. Existence is no coincidence, I exist to create, by seed and by fire that is my will and my desire, for good and for power, that excites me. My sole invocation and supplication is that I may consummate this phenomena that which is my pneuma.."
