Seeking raw, cold and thick Black Metal sound

[Khold Des Urgehal]

Hey everyone! I've heard some great things about Bare Knuckle pickups (and have heard some great sounds from them too!) and I was looking into buying a pair for one of my guitars. I'm looking for a dirty, raw, cold, treble-y but also thick Black Metal type of sound. Here are a few links of the type of sound I'm looking for.

Cultes Des Ghoules
https://youtu.be/L-SeSDEnUBA

Khold -- song skips for some reason towards the beginning
https://youtu.be/LP9EreNsuWc

Urgehal
https://youtu.be/BbLQxBB15Gc

So maybe just a set of Cold Sweats or Black Hawks would help get me there? I will primarily be using the bridge pickup for this sound but knowing what a good match for it would be cool for any additional tones. Hopefully this is the right place for this kind of question and hopefully nobody's ears get too offended! 

Thanks in advance for the help and recommendations! 

[Dave Sloven]

Cold Sweat bridge or, if using a Telecaster, a Piledriver.

They are probably the only two BKPs I'd recommend for that style.

Neck you might want to look at a Riff Raff

There's another version of that Khold clip that doesn't skip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDEFvmFa9qY

I like the Tom G. Warrior style string bends on that by the way

The guitar soudn on the Cultes Des Ghoules tracks sounded a bit like a more raw version of Dark Fortress

The Urgehal clip did not work.

I found this one though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVNS0nnrIQw

[nordra]

I recommend  Painkiller or Cbomb in the bridge for black metal.

[littleredguitars2]

+1 for the ceramic nailbomb

[Khold Des Urgehal]

Awesome. Thank you to everyone for the responses so far and thank you to Agent Orange as well for finding some better clips of those tunes!  Glad you liked the bends in that Khold song! They are one of my favorite bands. 

[Dave Sloven]

No worries.

A lot will depend on how the sound of the pickups interacts with the acoustic sound of your guitar though.

I have an A-Pig that I first used in my Epiphone '58 Korina Explorer.  Tuned to C# standard it was very dark and while I could get Black Sabbath 'Masters of Reality' or 'Volume IV' sounds out of it I could not get anything close to Venom (who use the same tuning), as that guitar with those pickups was way too dark. Recently I moved the same pickup into my Gibson SG Special Faded (the Worn Yellow version with the thin paint) and I am not only able to to get an early Venom sound but I have to turn the treble down a little bit!  The pickups sound much brighter and cutting but still with the throaty roar that they had in the Explorer.  I can get Sabbath too but I do need to turn the tone down even more to do so, whereas before with the Explorer the tone was wide open.

Based on my experience a Warpig might even do for you, depending on the guitar.  It would want to be a bright guitar though. C-Pig might be a safer bet than an A-Pig

Cold Sweat, C-Bomb, Painkiller, C-Pig, and possibly C-Hawk or Miracle Man would be the safer options.  I would definitely recommend a ceramic pickup for this application.  You want a lot of bite and cut. Cold Sweat would be the most versatile - you can definitely get a lot of early '80s sounds like Judas Priest out of those - and C-Pig and Miracle Man would have the thickest bottom end. C-Bomb and Painkiller would be the 'hairiest' (think Sepultura, Ratos de Porao, or other bands with that Brazilian hardcore guitar sound) out of the options mentioned.