Disney has released a heavy-metal-inspired merchandise collection centred on its classic villains, using styles associated with black metal, doom metal and thrash metal. The range matters as it repackages familiar Disney characters for fans of alternative music aesthetics, expanding the company’s themed retail offering at its parks and online store.

Items include a Maleficent ‘Mirror Mirror’ T-shirt in a black-metal-style typeface, a Hades ‘Lord of the Underworld’ design styled after doom metal, and an Ursula logo resembling that of a progressive doom band. The collection also features Yzma and Kronk merchandise linked to Disney’s planned Villains Land, plus apparel, accessories, drinkware and collectibles featuring Cruella de Vil, the Evil Queen, the Headless Horseman and Vanessa.