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Black Friday Read Between the Lines Contest: Ridiculously unreadable band logo No. 5

Thursday, June 25th, 2009 | musiX | No Comments

Here ’tis—the final band logo in the Black Friday Read Between the Lines Contest.

Again, here’s how it works: Decipher the five gnarly, nasty metal band logos. The person who gets the most correct out of five will receive a classic metal album from the Black Friday Vault. You can view No.’s 1 through 4 by scrolling down.

Shoot your answers to mark@thedaysoflore.com. Deadline is midnight (PDT), Thursday, June 25, and the winner will be announced this coming Black Friday.

Ridiculously unreadable band logo No. 5: This four-piece growls in French … so it sounds kinda sexy.

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Black Friday Read Between the Lines Contest: Ridiculously unreadable band logo No. 4

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 | musiX | No Comments

Moving along in the Black Friday Read Between the Lines Contest. Again, here’s how it works: Decipher the five gnarly, nasty metal band logos. The person who gets the most correct out of five will receive a classic metal album from the Black Friday Vault. You can view No.’s 1, 2 and 3 below. I’ll post another one on Thursday.

Shoot your answers to mark@thedaysoflore.com. Deadline is midnight (PDT), Thursday, June 25, and the winner will be announced this coming Black Friday.

Ridiculously unreadable band logo No. 4: Not Scandinavian. Un-American. Wears corpse paint. Eats babies.

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Black Friday Read Between the Lines Contest: Ridiculously unreadable band logo No. 3

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 | musiX | No Comments

I am shocked … and awed. A few people seem to be having no problem reading these ridiculously unreadable bands logos. Me? I went cross-eyed and developed a nasty migraine trying to figure these out. Am I going to have to dig a little deeper into the undercarriage of the Black Friday Vault? Because I will!

If you’re new, here’s how it works: Decipher the tingly, tangly metal band logos. The person who gets the most correct out of five will receive a classic metal album from the Black Friday Vault. You can view No.’s 1 and 2 below. I’ll post two more on Wednesday and Thursday. Are you in?

Send answers to mark@thedaysoflore.com. Deadline is midnight (PDT), Thursday, June 25, and the winner will be announced this coming Black Friday.

Ridiculously unreadable band logo No. 3: Umm … this Norwegian duo frightens me. No really. I just shit myself.

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Black Friday Read Between the Lines Contest: Ridiculously unreadable band logo No. 2

Monday, June 22nd, 2009 | musiX | No Comments

Ya ready? Here’s the second band logo in the Black Friday Read Between the Lines Contest, inspired by those crazy kids over at MetalSucks. All you have to do is guess what that mess below says. Well, that and four other messes. I posted ridiculously unreadable band log No. 1 on Friday, and will post three more throughout the week. The person who gets the most correct out of five will receive a classic metal album from the Black Friday vault. Yes, I know: It is tue good to be troo.

Send answers to mark@thedaysoflore.com. Deadline is midnight (PDT), Thursday, June 25, and the winner will be announced this coming Black Friday.

Ridiculously unreadable band logo No. 2: This now-defunct band is from the good ol’ U.S. of A. And they absolutely stink.

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Black Friday: Reading between the lines

Friday, June 19th, 2009 | musiX | 3 Comments

Historically in metal, a band’s image is as (if not more) important as the music itself. From the band’s name, to its garb, right down to the logo. Alice Cooper and KISS were better-known for what they looked like than the music they made (more true with the latter). When metal ruled in the late ’70s and the ’80s, it was all about image … until it regressed to absurdity before finally getting smothered by the always-fashionable flannel shirt.

The Me Decade is when the metal logo was truly birthed—a single, defining brand that could be easily seen and recognized on records, posters and, most importantly, T-shirts. Bands like Motörhead and Judas Priest went with classically ornate logos, while the aforementioned KISS chose a simple, very memorable signature lighting-bolt “SS” (turned into backwards “ZZ” when the band toured Germany). It carried over into the ’80s when it was all about the logo—Metallica, Exodus, Slayer, RATT, Anthrax, Dio, Def Leppard, AC/DC—all of which could be found scrawled on notebooks and in bathroom stalls, or crudely written or carved on school desktops … or so I’ve heard.

The tradition carries on today. In metal if you don’t have a tough/menacing logo, you might as well be playing Showtunes. Especially in black metal. In fact, in the world of black metal a band’s logo might be the first, and sometimes only, identifying element. It doesn’t even have to be legible for chrissakes, as bands are seemingly trying to one-up each other in keeping their names a mystery to the world.

So. For this Black Friday, I’ve scoured the bottomless pit of the Interwebs to find the most unruly, tangled, illegible band logos possible. It is your duty to try to decipher them. I’ll post one new logo per day (not including Saturday and Sunday) through Thursday, June 25. Shoot your answers to me at mark@thedaysoflore.com. The person who guesses the most band names correctly out of five will win a classic metal album of my choosing. Yes, this means all five people who both listen to metal and read TDoL have a chance to win a disc. It will, of course, be an incredible metal masterpiece.

Deadline is midnight (PDT), Thursday, June 25, and the winner will be announced next Black Friday. It will take a keen eye. It might also help in some cases to be fluent in Finnish.

Ridiculously unreadable band logo No. 1: This band comes from—you guessed it—Finland. They enjoy long walks in the snow, and their lyrics are as unintelligible as their logo.

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