Blackletter logotypes and metal music
Vitus Vestergaard
Text and band logos based on blackletter scripts are a common sight in visual metal music culture such as album covers. This article develops framework for analysing the affinity between script music. The analytical includes five themes: genre tradition, religion, history, geography shape. first four themes have to do with connotation whereas fifth theme has experiential metaphor. Though these demonstrates how meaning is produced when used artefacts These insights provide an answer question why become part of repertoire so many famous logotypes blackletter.
Metal music studies