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High-grade stainless steel. Aerospace-quality titanium alloy. Ingredients for your next WORLD OF WARCRAFT sword? Nope, these are the building blocks for some of the most badass horror-inspired personal accessories around. Meet our new friends at Tattooed Steel, makers of handcrafted cuffs, belt buckles, rings, and dog tags. Tattooed Steel merges some of the world’s toughest metal mediums with cutting edge outsider art designs to create highly original—and surprisingly affordable—personal accessories. Here’s how it works: Tattooed Steel teams up with a series of signature artists, and literally tattoos their designs onto stainless steel and titanium alloy. The designers they work with offer a range of styles and influences: classic Americana tattoo designs; graffiti inspired art; contemporary graphic design; comic book art; and, of course, the horrific and the gothic. These are artists who are absolutely not afraid to represent ideas of death and darkness in their work, and by combining their fearless artistic vision with non-traditional mediums they create highly unique, and amazing cool, products.

Not only is the product unique, so is the way Tattooed Steel does business. A totally ecommerce business, Tattooed Steel actually cares about the artists they work with, providing royalties for their work, plugging their other projects, telling their story, and supporting their vision. Most importantly, they are giving these artists the forum to showcase their work, which so well represents those that live the FANGORIA Lifestyle, but are often rejected by the mainstream.

As the company expands and develops, they will be looking for artists from all over the world to submit their designs through the community section of their website, www.tattooedsteel.com, to possibly be featured on their products. So for all you aspiring horror artists out there get sketching. And for the rest of you miscreants, get over the Tattooed Steel site now and pick up some products; you’ll not only be supporting your fellow freaks, you’ll end up looking a lot tougher than you did when you started.