Vintage dealer and a dedicated metal fan Harry Cantwell has - using his sense of history, style, and a deep love for skulls - picked up his top 10 metal shirts of all time for GQ. One of the T-shirts is from a joint Venom/Metallica 1984 tour: “I chose this shirt as an example of [one] that really captures a place and time, to show how much history you can convey with a T-shirt. It’s just a really interesting convergence of metal history that encapsulates a small period of time that's really, really important: the passing of the torch British early ’80s British [bands] over to thrash".

Queen guitarist Brian May has launched perfume Save Me that smells like "the British countryside", as Queen's guitarist points out on his Instagram. The Sun took a smell and says there's "surprisingly refreshing" emphasis on "deliberately earthy overtones - a hint of clean badger fur, some sandalwood and something a bit limey". A 50ml bottle of perfume goes for €235, while a signed bottle goes for €500. Those proceeds will benefit the animal welfare organization Save Me, co-founded by May in 2010.

Three Slipknot members are getting a toy-treatment by pop culture collectibles producer Funko for their popular line of "Pop! Rocks" vinyl collectibles. Despite Slipknot totaling nine members, and more if you were to count past members, only three figures - Corey Taylor, Sid Wilson and Craig Jones - have been announced. Taylor, Wilson and Jones are depicted in their most current state as seen on the 'We Are Not Your Kind' album cycle.

San Francisco toy company Super7 is producing an Ol' Dirty Bastard action figure, packaged on cardback featuring his welfare card art from 'Return to the 36 Chambers', and it's available for preorder now ($18). The Notorious B.I.G., Run-DMC, and Czarface ReAction figures are available to preorder (and scheduled to ship in January and December).

"Barbie is an icon in her own right, so having her pay tribute to my work and personal style is a real honour" - Elton John told Rolling Stone about a Barbie doll based on him. The new doll sees Mattel's most beloved character decked out in head-to-toe Elton gear, and it's now available to pre-order for $50. The Elton John Barbie will drop on October 29. Elbarb

Super7 made a new ReAction figure of Judas Priest's Rob Halford - a 3 3/4" figure celebrating Priest's 50th anniversary. Action Halford comes with "his classic stage outfit, microphone, and whip". Super7 also unveiled ReAction figure of Motörhead founder Lemmy Kilmister. Lemmy stands 3 3/4" tall and comes with his bass.

California glam-rock band Steel Panther is offering a customised song with lyrics inspired and approved by the buyer. Before they record a song they will set up a meeting "and talk about what you want in your song and pry as much information out of you as humanly possible. We want your song to be good!". The customized song goes for $7,500.

"Before there was metal, there was Black Sabbath" - Dr. Martens said ahead of the release of their new Black Sabbath boots, marking the 50th anniversary of Black Sabbath's self-titled debut and sophomore album 'Paranoid'. The boots are set to drop on October 1 on drmartens.com.

Evoke Candle has announced an officially licensed Motörhead candle, which smells like smoked whiskey and oak, Loudwire reports. It has a burn time of 70 to 80 hours. The store sells candles inspired by popular rock and metal songs, including the 'London Calling', 'Paint It Black', 'White Wedding', 'Heavy Metal' etc. The standard price for any candle is 36$.

Nine Inch Nails have announced a line of limited edition "Pandemic" shirts, and a hat - "this collection of re-takes re-flects our anxiety and anger during this unprecedented time", NIN said. Included in the collection are the "Mutation" tee ("Time to mutate. Feels good man"), the "Every Day Is Exactly the Goddamn Same" tee ("Getting tired of predicting the future accurately"), the "USAshamed" tee ("American pride, R.I.P.")...

Surely something we could have expected from a poetry-loving bearded guy, Jarvis Cocker releases a brand of tea - Peppermint Jungle. It goes with hit new musical identity, so it's named Jarv Is, just like his latest album 'Beyond the Pale'. NME took a sip, says it "is undoubtedly the most soothing release of 2020". So, Jarv Is, planning on live-streaming your tea at 5?

Cardi B has launched a line of waterproof merchandise on her online shop WAP-store to cash in on the success of her hit Megan Thee Stallion single. There is a transparent pink "WAP" raincoat ($125), which also comes in white and black, as well as black and pink "WAP' umbrellas ($25) and a "WAP" crop biker set ($40) that comes with a nylon spandex bra with the song title airbrushed on the front and bike shorts with the name on the butt...

"Adidas has allowed the production of a shoe that is named after an archangel in Islam. This is highly offensive to the Muslim community" - a petition, started on Change.org, reads, pushing for new Kanye West shoes be taken off the market, All Hip Hop reports. West has recently dropped sneakers that bear the name of two Islamic angels of judgment and death. The Yeezy Boost 350 V2 Israfil is a shoe Adidas already has on its way to market, and the Yeezy Boost 350 V2 Asriel that should be released in September/October. The new petition demands cease of all sales and an apology.

Rolling Stones are opening a flagship store on Carnaby Street in London, the spiritual center of London's fashion world in the swinging ‘60s. Opening Sept. 9, RS No. 9 Carnaby will have all the Stones merch, fashion and merchandise lines, exclusive product and music. The store will play non-stop Stones tunes, the glass floor will feature lyrics, while the fitting rooms are splashed with classic album artwork.

Nick Cave has launched a Cave Things webshop where he is selling - porn wallpaper. It's naked ladies, quite simple drawings, with strategic parts - fully exposed. Next to that one, he is selling plenty of other "Cave things" - “an over-priced plectrum” i.e. a guitar pick with Warren Ellis’ face on it, a red right hand necklace charm, pencils, “motivational T-shirt No. 1″ which has a quote from Nick Cave’s mom, apparently, stating “Head High And Fuck ‘Em All”.

Everybody's washing their hands now more than ever, including metalheads, so etsy shop Corpse Paint Soaps made bar soaps designed in the likeness of various face-painted metal musicians, Brooklyn Vegan reports. There's King Diamond, Abbath, Dead and Euronymous of Mayhem, Seregor of Carach Angren, former Gorgoroth bassist King ov Hell, and Dani Filth of Cradle of Filth. Scent-wise, the soaps don't smell of mosh-pits or men-sweat, rather the soaps run the gamut, with notes of bergamot, rosemary, ginger, pine, eucalyptus, cedarwood, and, in the case of Dani Filth, parma violets, as requested by Filth.

Nike has announced a new line of sneakers in collaboration with Grateful Dead. The Nike SB Dunk Low Grateful Dead cost $110 and come in three different colors - orange, green and yellow, Kicks on Fire reports. The sneakers take their inspiration from the band’s iconic dancing bears, and they feature faux-fur and suede exterior lining, a frayed Nike Swoosh mimicking the bears’ collars, and a circular imagine of the bear on the tongue. Inside the shoes are a bear-adorned slip, a sockliner with the Steal Your Face skull printed on the underside, and a small zipper pouch on the inner tongue for stashing weed.

Wu-Tang Clan have launched “Protect Ya Hands”, a plant-based, vegan hand sanitizer with a citrus scent made in collaboration with skincare company JUSU. For every purchase of the hand sanitizer, another hand sanitizer will be donated to the Ottawa Mission Foundation along with other homeless shelters throughout Canada. Sanitizer is part of their new A Better Tomorrow Collection, which also includes a T-shirt and a reusable food bowl. Orders can be found here. Check out the hand sanitizer below.

Sci-fi rockers Devo shared an online store featuring coronavirus merchandise. Offerings include themed face masks and Devo’s iconic red energy dome hats with an attached clear plastic face protector. The band explains: "Once the dome was placed on your head it recycled the electrical energy that regularly escapes from your brain. People of course laughed. Now the dome is no longer a source of controversy or derision. Its popularity is a sort of proof that De-evolution is real!".

Pantera is promoting social distancing in the shadow of coronavirus pandemic with a limited edition of 'Vulgar Display of Power'-styled shirt bearing the 'Walk' lyric, "Be yourself, by yourself, stay away from me". The iconic album art has been reworked to express precautions currently being taken to limit the spread of the coronavirus, Loudwire reports. Pantera's new T-shirt will ship in about three weeks and is selling for $30 with 40 percent of the proceeds being donated to the MusiCares Covid-19 Relief Fund to aid musical artists impacted by the coronavirus.

The That's Not Metal podcast made a really gallant job of creating a Google Spreadsheet with a list of over 100 (metal) artists who have had to either postpone or cancel their tour due to growing concerns over the coronavirus pandemic - Sheets includes links to their respective merch stores.

Korn made their own surgical masks in the shadow of coronavirus-mania - and they already sold out. The masks were on Korn's online webstore for $10 (usually they are sold as a 20-pack for less than $20) - and more is coming, for $11. These masks protect from… absolutely nothing. They're not actual, medically-approved masks. They're merchandise. The masks are of more use to those who are actually carrying the virus, since it can prevent the spread of the germs when they cough - Loudwire makes sense of the situation.

There are plenty of those, but these stand out!

Since kicking off their farewell tour on March 10, 2018, thrash-metal legends Slayer have sold $10 million of merchandise, the industry magazine Pollstar reports. They've still got one final tour leg left to go and by the end of the run, Slayer will have played nearly 150 farewell shows around the globe. Those shows are great moneymakers […]

Nick Cave got a letter in his The Red Hand Files box from a fan asking him what his thoughts were on merchandising of art. Cave's answer is heartwarming and funny, a very nice read: "Would I wear a pair of merch socks myself? The answer is well, yeah, I do – when I do […]