- High-Output Humbucker - The Black Winter pickup is a high-output passive humbucker designed for extreme metal, featuring three large ceramic magnets for maximum output and sustain in high-gain situations.
- Custom Coil Design - The custom overwound coil design of this guitar pickup delivers incredible clarity in the mids and highs, while the low end remains controlled and focused.
- Versatile - The Black Winter humbucker is designed to handle any tuning, facilitating aggressive palm mutes, fluid sweep picking, and punishing lead tones, perfect for both beginner and pro players.
- Ideal for Metal - Merciless high-output passive humbucker pickups created for the most frigid Black Metal, Death Metal, or any other extreme style. As brutal as the Scandinavian Winter.
- Made in the USA - Handmade in Santa Barbara, CA, the Black Winter high-output passive humbucker ships with 4-conductor lead wire for multiple wiring options, and is vacuum wax potted for squeal-free operation.
Searing Pickups for Unrelenting Tonal Chaos The 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, Black Winters sport some of the sharpest Gothic-inspired graphics to ever grace a pickup, a blast from the past for GearNuts's many fans of those early extreme metal records found across Scandinavia. Throw this set of Black Winters 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, Black Winter humbuckers are the right pickups to take
