Among English speakers, the use of umlaut marks and other diacritics with a blackletter style typeface is a form of foreign branding intended to give a band's logo a Teutonic quality—denoting stereotypes of boldness and strength commonly attributed to ancient northern European peoples, such as the Vikings and Goths. Its use has also been attributed to a desire for a "gothic horror" feel. The metal umlaut is not generally intended to affect the pronunciation of the band's name.
These decorative umlauts have been parodied in film and fiction; in the mockumentary film This Is Spın̈al Tap, fictional rocker David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean) says, "It's like a pair of eyes. You're looking at the umlaut, and it's looking at you."
Tim Van Schmidt� .� New SCENE. Celebrating our own homegrown music is a tradition in northern Colorado...Blues, punk, DJ, rock, funk, soul, hip hop, folk, bluegrass, metal — you name it, someone is out there playing it ... But in 2022, it looks like it’s going to happen ... My favorite band that year was Umlaut, a tongue-in-cheek metal trio ... .
If the heavy metal umlaut demonstrates anything, it is a simultaneous dissatisfaction with English and an inability to escape it ... Who exactly it was who made the fateful decision in the umlauting of Blue Ãyster Cult â the first known instance of what would become known as the heavy metal umlaut â is disputed.
In its over-the-topness, Pharaoh Overlord has always been a project with which they can dive headfirst and unabashed into music’s more exuberant climes, from their early work’s indulgent stoner-rock pomp, to 2011’s hair metal LP Out Of The Darkness for which they added an umlaut to their name.
Here’s what’s up ... For more information, find ‘em on Facebook ... Doors open at 7 p.m ... Friday night, Soulstice rocks the black box stage at Mel’s at 9 p.m., with Saturday featuring Umlaut in the early slot at 6 p.m., followed by a multi-band metal/hard rock show featuring Concillium, Green Chapel, Alien Dog and Old North End starting once again at 9 p.m.
Support for characters in Cyrillic, Japanese, and many more languages; duplicate Gamertags allowed Changes are coming to Xbox Live Gamertags — umlauts to make your handle more metal, and a naming convention that will let you choose the tag you want, even if someone else has had it for years ... The first change is free (usually these things cost $10).
his coming 70th birthday ...Related. PHOTOS. Motorhead's Lemmy. 20 EssentialSongs. From Hawkwind to Probot, via several decades' worth of Motörhead madness, here's the late metal icon at his gruff best ... There were some modest lifestyle changes ... Lemmy Made It 'OK to Be an Outsider' How Lemmy and Motorhead GaveMetal Its Umlaut The Tao of Lemmy ... .
3 / 5 stars. This concert documentary sees Nikki Six, Tommy Lee and Mick Mars bow out after decades of heavy metal debauchery. As they sang ... @PeterBradshaw1. After being together for 34 years, the heavy metal band Mötley Crüe disbanded at the end of 2015. The umlauts are not pronounced, and the group do not discuss it ... Read more ... Facebook ... .
It's been a rough week for fans of legendary heavy metal groups with umlauts in their names. On Dec. 28, Lemmy Kilmister, beloved, hard-living frontman of Mötorhead, died at age 70 ... "I feel very ... grateful I'm alive, first of all," Sixx told the crowd in a nod to the band's years of drug-and-alcohol fueled decadence ... .
Just as Motorhead's early records injected a faster-louder rush and intensity into Seventies metal, shaking off any arena-rock sludginess that started to creep into the genre, so did the band's umlaut make a statement of its own.
The band’s frontman Vim, played by Adrian Edmondson, has just airily explained to an interviewer that Bad News are “not, basically, a heavy metal band” ... But basically, we’re heavy metal, aren’t we?” “I thought we were heavy metal!” protests Nigel Planer’s drummer Den ... “I’m not getting back in the van,” he sulks, “until you say we’re heavy metal.”.
Ithaca, New York. Patches of snow cling to the muddy earth in the city’s picturesque nineteenth-century cemetery just ...Rock ’n roll is the music of the college barbecue, and long will it be so ... Having ornamented his name with an umlaut—Derülo—back in 2010 for his breakout, the chanteur has since shed this particular HeavyMetal linguistic accessory ... .
Mötley Crüe, the umlaut-sporting hair metal band better known these days for a hilariously disgusting, or disgustingly hilarious, biography called Dirt, have announced a farewell tour of Australia.
Mötley Crüe. Bye, bye, bye, bye. Gotta say, Mötley Crüe are taking their time calling it quits. Basically, the umlauted metal-bangers are doing a two-year world tour that will end next New Year's Eve... On Aug. 11, they soil the Giant Center in Hershey, and on Aug. 14, they violate the Wells Fargo Center ... Presale is at 10 a.m ... Friday ... ... .