larstangmark
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Posted: Sep. 06 2010, 02:18 |
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| Quote (Ugo @ Sep. 05 2010, 20:02) | @ Lars: if you didn't explicitly say that the name is Bathory, I'd never have read it like that, as to me it looks like "Baclord"... so your mistake is kind-of justified.  BTW, what kind of music is that? Black metal, I suppose... the use of Gothic-like fonts seems to be a staple of that genre, just as much as the meaningless umlauts (i.e. the two dots over a vowel which are supposed to change that vowel's pronunciation, but they really don't) are a staple of metal in general - like in Mötorhead and Mötley Crüe. |
Bathory were a very influental swedish one-man black metal band. This album "...the return" is absolutely insane, even by todays standards. The album has a great atmosphere but the musicianship is so-so to put it gently.
I think Bathory stayed clear of the umlauts because they were swedish, and in Sweden the umlauts certainly changes the pronounciations of the words.
The funniest thing I have ever encountered with "metal-umlauts" is the band Trojan who decided their bandname looked better as Tröjan, which is swedish for "The Sweater". Really funny if you look at the cover:
http://heavymetalbreed.blogspot.com/2008/04/trojan-chasing-storm.html
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[Another Italian single which I don't have - I don't remember what is it - also has "Olfield" on the label.] Evidently the Crisis/Crises era was a particularily prolific period for mi(ke)stakes by Virgin and its various international branches...
