Is this guy why every metal band logo looks like a bundle of twisted sticks? Or ...

darkwater · on April 6, 2025

This style is mainly used by black metal and death metal bands, not every heavy metal one.

Doxin · on April 7, 2025

Most, but not all[0]

starkparker · on April 6, 2025

no, he's just part of a long evolution of metal logos from the 1980s, particularly Mayhem: https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Mayhem/67

this article kind of glances on Christophe's Emperor logo, which was 1994, but it was also just part of the chain of influences

jccalhoun · on April 6, 2025

People seem to like the style but I find them virtually unreadable.

jlarocco · on April 6, 2025

Same here. I think they look kinda neat, but I can't read them to save my life.

arp242 · on April 6, 2025

The obscurity and inaccessibility is kind of the point, at least for some of the Black Metal bands.