FlidaisFortress

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First a little info: if you're looking to trade or buy I recommend turning on the filters, 'cause everything I uploaded is a mix between for sale/trade and sold/not for sale.

Updated April 2026

SHORT INTRO: LOVE FOR METAL
I've been listening to metal since 2003, when I started high school. Korn and Slipknot introduced me to the emotion and heavyness of metal. SOAD, Metallica, folk metal and many others followed. That evolved into a period of mostly metalcore and deathcore, later to be joined by (slamming) brutal death metal and technical death metal and even later grindcore and powerviolence. Hardcore and beatdown also found their way into my life. Lots of the time I also really enjoy skatepunk/hardcore punk and poppunk. Also bluegrass and other American folk are very dear to me.

Most of the time I'm just grateful for such a variety of genres, subgenres and subsubgenres (and subsubsubgenres ;)) to match every mood!

My oldest tshirt is an Avenged Sevenfold one from when they were still with Victory Records. My newest are Defeated Sanity - "Chronicles of Lunacy" and Månegarm - "Fornaldarsagor". I've had over 90 band shirts, but many of them are already sold. I'll try and upload them all, if I still have all the photos!

BATTLE VEST

On the 16th of June 2025 I was at Into the Grave festival in NL and I thought to myself: I want a battle vest after all those (22) years of listening to metal! I collected a couple of patches right away.
I started making the vest on 22 June 2025. I finished it on 23 March 2026! It was a blast to work on. Total of patches: 145. That's 141 band patches and 4 festival patches. I had already bought lots of patches in the previous years, and many more were bought after the dream of having my own vest. I've made 42 patches myself. 25 of which I've created with self cut stencils and textile paint and 17 patches are embroidered by yours truly. (And some are made from cut up t shirts, but i don't count them as DIY)

The theme: every metal subgenre I listen to: from SOAD to Devourment and from Molotov Solution to Nasum. Later in the process I decided to add some of my favorite bluegrass related and punk bands too.

The color scheme is mainly browns, oranges, yellows and black and whites on the back. Greens, blues, greys and black and whites on the front. I used a brown colored thread that matches the original thread of my denim vest! Meters of thread used: over 200, but I doubled the string so actually more than 400 meters (1300 ft).

All patches were sewn on by my hand.
All pockets are still functional. The left breast pocket is equipped with a waterproof poncho and the right one holds a sewn in bottle opener!
Some edges of the vest are showing denim as to respect the mighty denim (and it looks cool of course)
The buttons are still functional for cold weather ;)

On the inside you'll find all cloth festival wristbands of the metal related festivals I went to.

Fun fact: the average year of the albums that made me fall in love with the bands on this vest is 2009/2010.

The number of bands/albums per country:
US 68, UK 16 (1 Orkney), CAN 10, GER 10, SWE 9, NL 5, FIN 4, BELGIUM 3, AUSTRALIA 3, ITALY 2, SPAIN 2, RUS 2, IRE 1, SWITZ 1, NORWAY 1, COLOMBIA, 1 POLAND, 1 INDONESIA 1, FRANCE 1

What's your reason for joining tshirtslayer?:

Multiple reasons: Many (older) shirts can't be or are hard to find on the internet, so I'm adding to the encyclopedia! I like showing off my battle jacket and collection.

Do you goto any festivals or shows?:

I've been to:

- Obscene Extreme in Czech in 2015 and 2016. Fucking great!!
- Going to Death Feast open air in Germany almost every year since 2013. Best festival around imo!
- In my early days I've been to Graspop, Belgium four times (2009-2012)
- MetalDays, Slovenia 5 times. So beautiful! (2013-2016 and 2022) (really want to go to Tolminator)
- Neurotic Deathfest and Netherlands Deathfest in Tilburg, Netherlands. 2011 till 2017.
- Bloodshed fest, NL couple of times as well
- Extremefest in Hünxe, Germany was so rad (2012/2013).
- Houten Deathfest, NL. 2012 and 2013. So fucking sick!!

And lots more shows and one day festivals.

Favourite album ?:

So many, but the most important one must be Fortress by Protest the Hero

Which bands are you into?:

Protest The Hero

Beyond Creation

The Afternoon Gentlemen