This is the first battle vest I ever sewed. My original idea was mainly to collect bands from the San Francisco Bay Area. But as I kept adding more patches along the way, I started handpicking the best bands from other regions too, and tried to sew their patches close to one another.
The back is covered with patches from some of the best bands across the Bay Area, Canada, Germany, Brazil, Switzerland, the Netherlands, China, Japan and more. On the front, I’ve tried to gather all kinds of cool graphics as well. For example, the Lich King 8-bit thrash album patch on the shoulder is such an awesome piece in my collection! There’s also a bootleg Sodom graphic on the front that’s really interesting—I have no idea who designed it. That helmeted Nazi skeleton is from the game Zombie Army 4; it’s a bit goofy but still pretty fun.
All in all, this battle vest took me on and off two years to finish. The last patch I sewed on was the Exhorder letter patch, which I believe is from a Mexican label. There are still two annoying empty spots on the shoulders right now. I’m looking for Laaz Rockit and Agent Steel letter patches to fill them up. If anyone has these two patches, hit me up.
COTHRASHER on
All killer no filler
Yellow Prowler on
cheers mate thx for the flames!
Nashrebelmetalp... on
Wilddd no spaces for posers on this beast lol
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\m/ \m/
Violensen on
All these awesome bands and then Machine Head is also just kinda on there hahahahahahah!
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MH is good imo(maybe skip their mu-metal songs), besides they are a big part of bay area metal scene