Supreme Channel Metallica’s Blood And Jizz For New Range

Fashion brand Supreme seems to be taking inspiration from metal heavyweights Metallica for its new collection.

Well, no “seems” about it – the hoodies, caps, pants and skate decks below all bear the immediately recognisable blood and spunk swirl seen on Metallica’s Load album of 1996. This is very much a collaboration.

And we’re not making that up, the jizz and juice stuff: the cover art of Load is an original work called Semen and Blood III, and depicts the blood of a cow (or some) mixed in with a portion of the artist’s own, ahem, load.

Speaking of which, here’s an appropriate blast from the past.

Said artist, Andres Serrano, wasn’t a favourite of all four Metallica members. Frontman James Hetfield would tell Classic Rock magazine, in 2009, that he wasn’t feeling Load’s cover art, at all, calling it a “piss-take” and referring to the decision to use it as “crazy, stupid crap”.

But what do you make of the goods below? Would you be seen dead wearing headgear like that? Does anything Supreme puts its name to immediately make it desirable, or is this a sticky, icky, please-wash-your-hands-immediately step too far? Feel free to tweet us your take on this range – is it your Hero Of The Day, or a case of sorry but, really, this Ain’t My Bitch? (Yeah, you see what we did there.)

If you really wanna get this stuff on you – or under you – check out the Supreme site here.