Description
Winters up in Scandinavia don’t do polite, and neither does this pickup. Seymour Duncan built the Black Winter for players who need distortion that stays articulate no matter how far you push the gain, and mids that refuse to disappear once the rest of the band kicks in.
This is the bridge unit, finished in black, and it’s voiced specifically for extreme metal territory – the kind of playing where riffs need to feel like they’re grinding through concrete but solos still have to cut cleanly above the wall of sound. Instead of a scooped, washed-out low end, you get a deliberate balance of bass, mids and treble that keeps the pickup’s aggression focused rather than muddy.
- Humbucker pickup designed for bridge position
- Voiced for extreme metal: heavy saturation with retained clarity
- Punishing midrange that cuts through dense, high-gain mixes
- Black cover finish
If your rig is built around relentless downtuned riffing, palm-muted chugging, and leads that need to slice through a wall of distortion without getting lost, the Black Winter gives you the saturation and aggression to match – without turning your tone into an indistinct roar.
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