I think yes, because every style got some differences ... just like the sound .. in their sterical point of view for example ... just like clothes or lyrics themes ... it isn't an obligatory rule ... but mostly it's like that ... more in extreme metal scene like black/death I think.

Written by selken on 30.11.2007 at 04:36

What about Opeth? when I look the logo for the first time I thought about Gothic Metal, but they are extreme progressive.

Mmmm when I saw Opeth's logo for the first time.. I found it Dark as fuck... scary but elegant... And it's just how it is IMO.

Extreme Progressive Metal.. mmmm Opeth.. no no, Not for me at least, because the influence of Death metal is stronger than the progressive IMO

guess it does in some way, look at the logos of metallica, iron maiden, led zeppelin, judas priest, deff leppard, and so many other bands that have nice logos and they make great music; although i´m not gonna make it widely in music, ´cause there´s so showy logos but the music is crap, or the logo is shit and the music is good, so it depends, but i think a good band always try to have nice logos to represent the type of music they play

Summoning have such an awesome logo, and against the backdrop of their beautiful album art, it just prepares you for what you are about to hear.

A lot of black metal bands have reflective logos, because obviously if you're making that kind of music you wouldn't have your band name in pink bubble letters, you'd go for the medieval, can't even read what it says without serious deciphering font.

I think Tool's logos are quality work, they show a lot of dedication. They never disappoint with Adam Jones and Alex Grey, artistic geniuses at the helm of art production, just look at their last three releases: Each album's packaging is progressively more intricate and awe-inspiring. And the videos....

Yeah, i think that the logo reflects on the music so you coulld accuiliy "see" the music before hearing it. Specielly the black metal logos, those you definitly recognize.

Almost definitly, alot of metalcore bands look like the spelling in there logo was carved out with a knife, black metal has the detailed indecipherable spelling, power and old school heavy metal have similar spelling most of the time. Sometimes I cant put my finger on it but I can usually tell a bands musical style by the logo.

Written by FeskarN on 20.01.2008 at 00:36

Yeah, i think that the logo reflects on the music so you coulld accuiliy "see" the music before hearing it. Specielly the black metal logos, those you definitly recognize.

If you can't read it, its Black Metal lol.

Written by Lord TJ on 30.01.2008 at 21:12

Written by FeskarN on 20.01.2008 at 00:36

Yeah, i think that the logo reflects on the music so you coulld accuiliy "see" the music before hearing it. Specielly the black metal logos, those you definitly recognize.

If you can't read it, its Black Metal lol.

well that is not always the case. for example behold the arctopus has a logo very similar to a BM band but they are far from it.

but most of the time you can actually tell the style by the logo

Written by Spirit Molecule on 31.01.2008 at 13:39

Written by Lord TJ on 30.01.2008 at 21:12

Written by FeskarN on 20.01.2008 at 00:36

Yeah, i think that the logo reflects on the music so you coulld accuiliy "see" the music before hearing it. Specielly the black metal logos, those you definitly recognize.

If you can't read it, its Black Metal lol.

well that is not always the case. for example behold the arctopus has a logo very similar to a BM band but they are far from it.

but most of the time you can actually tell the style by the logo

If it's completely readable in a standard font, it's Avantgarde.
(Pelican, Tool, Fantomas, Mono)

I think yes, if a band is satanic and demonic their logo will probably show that, a band which sings mainly of death and gore will probably have boold in their logo, warriors will have swords and so on.
the logo of the band is like their package, it shows the "escence" of the band just like a potato-chip snack will usualy have a potato on the package and cornflakes will have a bowl of cornflakes and milk.
there are some exeptions though, Darkwoods My Betrothed's logo resembles a goth metal band where they are fure black, Gorgoroth and Behemoth have an easy to read logo and still they are black metal (and Behemoth is Blackened death but still have the same logo since their BM session), Windir has an easy to read logo with swords but they are black-viking metal, so not all logos can tell you about the genre of the band

The academic term (or, more appropriately, the term used by academics) for "bands looking like they sound" is "homology" .

yeah logos definitely go with genre. along with the illegible black metal logos, i also associate the font Venom and Bathory used to early black metal. death metal logos come off to me as jokingly violent or chaotic looking. and power metal logos have to look as frilly and flashy as possible while heavy metal bands look as imposing as possible.

Sometimes I disregard bands if I cannot even read one letter out of the crap they "draw".

For example:


I don't get that shit. I won't bother.
And it was a good thing I did, for then a friend passed me a song of the band and it was pure crap-ola.

I could tell it was grindcore just by what its drawn....
Good, at least 70% understandable logos can make a difference in band.

In my opinion.

weird, most grindcore logos you CAN read

Written by Zomvik_1511 on 28.07.2008 at 09:12

Sometimes I disregard bands if I cannot even read one letter out of the crap they "draw".

For example:


I don't get that shit. I won't bother.
And it was a good thing I did, for then a friend passed me a song of the band and it was pure crap-ola.

I could tell it was grindcore just by what its drawn....
Good, at least 70% understandable logos can make a difference in band.

In my opinion.

you good sir, have a friend in me. i prefer to be able to actually READ the logo. chances are if i cant read it, i wont give it a listen.

You can most definitely tell a band's genre by their logo. You can also normally tell how much effort the band puts into their music by the quality; a good band will want a good reflection of their music as a logo is the first thing most people see. I get like this with album art as well, sometimes I will have nothing in particular that I want to buy, so I look for something that hopefully depicts the album's atmosphere and it normally works out.

Obviously there are some rare circumstances where they will be unique, but for the most part they are all obvious mirroring the genre.

I think yes,because every metal subgenre has own logo style,when you see band's logo you can almost sure guess which genre thay are playing,at least when you can't read name of the band you know for sure it's black metal

I found Def!

Yes...but put together Maiden, Priest, Def Leppard & Co. and add there one bm band logo...you will get the same chart...

I think it does make a diffrence. As Power Metal logo's are allways a big epic word or the logo's at an angle.

and alot of death/black/grind logo's

are just words you can't read.

I think it does make a diffrence. As Power Metal logo's are allways a big epic word or the logo's at an angle.

and alot of death/black/grind logo's

are just words you can't read.

Written by Zomvik_1511 on 28.07.2008 at 09:12

Sometimes I disregard bands if I cannot even read one letter out of the crap they "draw".

For example:


I don't get that shit. I won't bother.
And it was a good thing I did, for then a friend passed me a song of the band and it was pure crap-ola.

I could tell it was grindcore just by what its drawn....
Good, at least 70% understandable logos can make a difference in band.

In my opinion.

I disagree. Logos like that create interest and draw in the prospective listener. They are a kind of filter, people who like that style of music will be attracted to the logo, and those who dislike the music will be repulsed by the logo. I personally like indecipherable logos.

I'm also the sort of person that can generally guess the genre by looking at the logo. There are some great logos out there (I even like the indecipherable ones) and I've always wondered how those, especially the symmetrical ones are actually made. hmmm.....

Written by SerratedSyringe on 20.11.2009 at 21:48

Written by Zomvik_1511 on 28.07.2008 at 09:12

Sometimes I disregard bands if I cannot even read one letter out of the crap they "draw".

For example:


I don't get that shit. I won't bother.
And it was a good thing I did, for then a friend passed me a song of the band and it was pure crap-ola.

I could tell it was grindcore just by what its drawn....
Good, at least 70% understandable logos can make a difference in band.

In my opinion.

I disagree. Logos like that create interest and draw in the prospective listener. They are a kind of filter, people who like that style of music will be attracted to the logo, and those who dislike the music will be repulsed by the logo. I personally like indecipherable logos.

Lets take that logo for example, which is the one I am pointing out in particular:
That logo does not even tickle my curiosity because I can tell what is it about, necro-autopsy-gore-blood-guts-i-raped-a-corpse-i-eat-insides-i-bathe-in-rotting-fluids..etc etc...
I do know that a lot of bands use that description, no need to point that out later on. However if a band its gonna spark my curiosity, in my opinion it should use less 3 year old doodles and less than obvious drawing descriptions.

IMO i said.

Written by Zomvik_1511 on 17.01.2010 at 17:59

Written by SerratedSyringe on 20.11.2009 at 21:48

Written by Zomvik_1511 on 28.07.2008 at 09:12

Sometimes I disregard bands if I cannot even read one letter out of the crap they "draw".

For example:


I don't get that shit. I won't bother.
And it was a good thing I did, for then a friend passed me a song of the band and it was pure crap-ola.

I could tell it was grindcore just by what its drawn....
Good, at least 70% understandable logos can make a difference in band.

In my opinion.

I disagree. Logos like that create interest and draw in the prospective listener. They are a kind of filter, people who like that style of music will be attracted to the logo, and those who dislike the music will be repulsed by the logo. I personally like indecipherable logos.

Lets take that logo for example, which is the one I am pointing out in particular:
That logo does not even tickle my curiosity because I can tell what is it about, necro-autopsy-gore-blood-guts-i-raped-a-corpse-i-eat-insides-i-bathe-in-rotting-fluids..etc etc...
I do know that a lot of bands use that description, no need to point that out later on. However if a band its gonna spark my curiosity, in my opinion it should use less 3 year old doodles and less than obvious drawing descriptions.

IMO i said.

Exactly. Everyone has an opinion. To each his (her) own.

Written by Doc G. on 25.01.2008 at 07:55

Almost definitly, alot of metalcore bands look like the spelling in there logo was carved out with a knife, black metal has the detailed indecipherable spelling, power and old school heavy metal have similar spelling most of the time. Sometimes I cant put my finger on it but I can usually tell a bands musical style by the logo.

I agree, usually you can tell with logos like Whitechapel and The Devil Wears Prada that your going to get a Deathcore sound. Generally when i see a band shit, it takes a few glances but you can figure out the style of the band by looking at it.

Not really sure if it's a bad thing or a good thing because if you already know what it'll sound like you can be pretty judemental and turn your ears off to it before giving it a chance. But at the same time its familiar to fans of that genre so they are like "hey, that looks like SatanSatan's logo, they must be good!"

I think the name of the band alone already tells you a lot about what genre they are, so assuming you can read the letters in the logo you might just be figuring out the genre from the name and not necessarily the logo design =p

I agree logos do alude to the genre but there are exeptions, such as my band Perverse Imagery the logos looks deathcore (fagcore) ish but it a Doomcore band Doom mixed with Hardcore. Seems like an oxymoron.

Written by Zomvik_1511 on 28.07.2008 at 09:12

Sometimes I disregard bands if I cannot even read one letter out of the crap they "draw".

For example:


I don't get that shit. I won't bother.
And it was a good thing I did, for then a friend passed me a song of the band and it was pure crap-ola.

I could tell it was grindcore just by what its drawn....
Good, at least 70% understandable logos can make a difference in band.

In my opinion.

The band's name is in there, but it's very, very, VERY hard to find.