With its wide range of high-gain tones, advanced EQ, and adaptive noise gate, the Heavy Menace has carved out a spot as one of the most versatile distortion pedals around. For Halloween 2025, we’re dressing it up in a limited-edition opalescent blue-purple sparkle colourway that draws your eye like a scrying pool. The artwork comes straight from the original sketches that Ottawa tattoo artist Kaylie Seaver created for the Heavy Menace, making this not just stunning, but a collectible piece of Empress history. We’re only making 350 of these. Our last two limited runs (ParaEq MKII Deluxe Black and ZOIA 10k) vanished in days. Miss this one, and you’ll be haunted by it forever. Features Three versatile distortion modes - Lite(ish), Heavy, and Heavier Footswitchable noise gate Three-band EQ with sweepable mid frequency Weight control to sculpt low frequency response Linked or independent switching of the distortion and gate Gate key input (⅛” TS or TRS) True bypass or buffered bypass