the "heavy metal umlaut"


A heavy metal umlaut is an umlaut ... over some of the letters in the names of a heavy metal band — although the names might then sound odd to people who use languages in which umlauts are common, such as German, Turkish or Swedish.

Umlauts are often used in concert with a Blackletter or pseudo-Blackletter typeface in the band logo to give it a more gothic feel. Many bands have taken to using umlauts and other diacritics, often gratuitously, in their names.

—Wikipedia article of the day

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