Pretty soon, you just know that when you see a series of illegible white shapes that look like knives, thorns, or webs on a crisp black background, this usually signifies that you are about to be sonically pummelled by a very intense kind of music with an unwavering sense of hatred for you and all mankind.Īnd of course, blast beats.
And to think that logo above is a more restrained version of the same logo that seems to have been redesigned to look like this. Sink Showerof course! You know, the ones who brought you such upbeat tracks as Impaling the Impaled. But, if you look at it long enough, you can start to make out the words…? In terms of sheer graphical prowess, when it comes to many of these these black metal band logos, there is certainly some sort of font-morphing sorcery at play.
So the topic of this article is to look at various bands with illegible logos and try to figure out just what the fuck is going on. Nothing against these guys, or cults…heheeee anyway…. Maybe the fact that the logo looks more like a cult symbol makes a bit more sense now, coming from these guys. Now, what kind of band makes a logo that looks like this? This font is distributed under the terms of GPL license.Would you believe it says, Wolves in the Throne Room? Well, it does. Description This font was created using FontCreator 5.
If you would like to support Larabie Fonts visit Free for single uses but you need purchase the commercial version to other usages.ĭeath Metal Packages Death Metal. Making fonts is my full-time job and every donation, in any amount, enables me to continue running the site and creating new fonts. Donations gratefully accepted at This font was updated in Larabie Fonts is able to offer unique free fonts through the generous support of visitors to the site. Will I release the app? Will I open source the code? Sure, but only at the same time that I release the app.
I have a show later this year, hopefully, where I am showing this piece and I would release the code and software in such event. I would have liked to have it already released. Publishing broken software is a really bad idea. It is my intention, althoug currently is super buggy, outdated and need a lot of work. It is a funny yet compelling sabotage to the self-sabotage of Black Metal bands logos. It will be culturally resignified as a message carrier which unfortunately will loose the message -the text- thanks to its inherent unintelligibility leaving it to be resignified, once again, just as an aesthetic form. By using this Black Metal styled generative typography anyone can create a text that resembles a Black Metal logo, which will be deprived from its original intentions and meaning, only left with its formal attributes. Text turned into just a bunch of apparently random lines that usually look like a texture rather than something written. Probably in search of such extremes the logos, as well as the music, have become absolutely unreadable. Black Metal it is intended to be one of the most extreme in darkness, obscurity, evilness and brutality sub-genre of Metal Music as such, the logos of the Black Metal bands.