Searing Pickups for Unrelenting Tonal Chaos The Blackened Black Winter guitar pickup by Seymour Duncan is not for the faint of heart. Named after the song "Black Winter Day" by Finnish metal band Amorphis, these passive humbuckers are primed and ready for sonic destruction. Designed specifically for black metal, death metal, and grindcore, these pickups conjure the murkiest depths of heavy tone with sinister results, with custom overwound coils to maximize both output and clarity. Plus, Blackened Black Winters sport some of the sharpest Gothic-inspired graphics to ever grace a pickup, a blast from the past for Sweetwater's many fans of those early extreme metal records found across Scandinavia. Throw this Blackened Black Winter humbucker pickup set into your favorite 6-string and prepare to ascend to the dark throne of sonic brutality.Chainsaw brutality captured in a passive pickup Designed to handle metal's most extreme subgenres, Blackened Black Winter humbuckers are