Post pics of the best/worst Battle Jackets and ILM will mark them out of 10

http://i.imgur.com/V5uhMfR.jpg
jjj can top this

battle pants

http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m72wh5LEe31rxcb72o1_500.jpg

great thread.

Grindcore fans can't spell:

Napal Death
NAPALAM DEATH
Napalm
napalm death
Naplam Death

http://s3.amazonaws.com/tshirtslayer/files-tshirt/styles/shirtview/public/user-7326/8e7c0fb17f7329bf916d451834c4a429.jpg

lol I thought that said Brokencyde

xps

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv10v8hnSZ1r51v3fo1_500.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/e9SRQzV.jpg

^ for emil.y

http://i.imgur.com/2THUo51.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/zrZZjd9.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/n5Ui3xW.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/wZWBG4v.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Izq6Vow.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/vaq6o7o.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/HCLQLmh.jpg

hard rock battle jacket vs turtles bedspread.

mum must be so proud.

http://i.imgur.com/76crobc.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/jq5mEGB.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/eQHM9bq.jpg

I always thought these were called patch(ed) denims, never heard Battle Jackets before, sounds like a Manowar thing. Anyway Pagan Altar are playing the pub next door to where I work tonight and there will surely be some of these on show among the attendees, I'll report back!

It seems to have various names http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-off

but the metal version is battle jacket

A cut-off, also known as a kutte or "battle jacket" / "battlevest" in heavy metal subcultures, is a type of vest or jacket which originated in the biker subculture and has now found popularity in the punk and various heavy metal subcultures. Biker, metal and punk subcultures differ in how the garment itself is prepared, what decorations are applied, and how this is done.

Cut-offs are usually made from leather or denim jackets with their sleeves removed, or cut very short, and often adorned with patches, badges and painted artwork that display motorcycle club affiliations known as colors,[1][2] or alternatively band names, political affiliations, beliefs or sexual acts performed.[3]

In the 1970s and 1980s, cut-offs were almost always blue denim. Thrash metal fans favored heavily washed denim, while members of one British motorcycle club bleached theirs until they were almost white. From the mid to late 1990s, some punks and metalheads have worn multi-pocketed hunting or fishing vests, both in plain colours and camouflage patterns, and leather cut-offs—always popular with punks, and with bikers in recent decades.

The word Kutte (plural: Kutten) is a German loanword which literally references the religious habit of a Christian monk (from the Latin cotta, cf. Engl. coat) but that is also, in a tongue-in-cheek fashion, used for Cut-offs.

Punk and hardcore
Punk kutten are often made from leather and heavily decorated with metal studs.

In punk subculture, cut-offs are often leather (but can also be denim). Typical decorations are metal studs and badges (often painted-on) of bands or political causes, with cloth patches being secondary, ultimately because of the difficulty of doing the required needlework on tough leather. In addition, sleeves are more likely to be kept attached to the body of the jacket. As part of the DIY philosophy of the hardcore punk scene, the vests may be home-repaired with heavy thread, dental floss, or safety pins, and the band logos may be put on using paint and crude home-made stencils. Some wearers also drape chains or other paraphernalia from the vest.
Heavy metal
A pair of typical heavy metal / hard rock fans proudly wearing and discussing their "battlevests".

Cut-offs in the heavy metal scene are often adorned with patches of logos and album covers of bands, ranging in size from small square patches to large patches that fill the back panel of the vest. Patches are the main decoration; however, some Heavy Metal kutten have studs on them, particularly for fans of crossover hardcore-metal bands such as mid-1980s Discharge or of thrash metal.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Anti-NowhereLeague-1-Augustibuller2007.jpg/800px-Anti-NowhereLeague-1-Augustibuller2007.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/tXb1jzK.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/W7iSmEW.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/1smbwCo.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/U4TdTOf.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Wgb1wc3.jpg

The most popular centrepiece back patches circa 1981 (from memory) :

http://www.bzar.jp/data/bzar/product/20130623_4e0cc7.jpg

http://www.foofighters.com/sites/foofighters/files/imagecache/blog_large/rainbow.jpg

http://www.marthascloset.co.uk/asps/uploads/big/5397-2.jpg

This was like the ones I used to see in Glasgow/Lanarkshire
http://i.imgur.com/r3xYI1F.jpg

I have no idea why Sacred Reich were so popular here as they were really shit.

Is this a thing in hip hop now too?
http://i.imgur.com/Bpxx5ay.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/cYZ1ROX.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ajVmEWF.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/UC6EKVy.jpg

http://metalinjection.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/ChrisBrownGoneMetaljacket.jpg

Is that Chris Brown? Don't let Alex In NYC see that!

How does NV rate this one?
http://i.imgur.com/w3rldvQ.jpg

@ag : yup ..

and i very much doubt alex comes over this side of the wire these days.

:(

He pops up occasionally. I'm sure he knows about those pics.

I used to see loads of these battle jackets with Public Enemy patches alongside Anthrax/Slayer/Megadeth etc I keep forgetting how much Public Enemy crossed over to the metal crowd

http://i.imgur.com/ibR6JRu.jpg

The Chris Brown pic ... while roundly indefensible ... is indeed ancient history. I already addressed it back in November of 2012.

ahhh .. say his name 5 times ...

Told ya!

But did he have a battle jacket with a Killing Joke patch?

http://i.imgur.com/aYJj6EX.jpg

skillz.

how many of these were done by the mums ..

(and yes, i know there is a chance that the dads may have done them, but you just know they were done by the mums .. )

nah what else do you think they did during the home economics lessons they forced on us first two years of high school

that last one is very organized

exactly upper mississippi ..

a hormonal spotty 16 year old would never have arranged them like that.

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well most battle jackets i see now are guys older than i am. and im pretty sure the great majority of jackets were bought from someone else. Im damn sure a lot of ppl wore patches by bands he'd never heard (my old mate from school had one he wore to donington in the 90s and he had only heard the black album by metallica nevermind the other patches on it