What is it that makes umlauts so metal? It’s hard to say – is it the way they can make an O look like a tiny Satan? Is it the immediate associations with Germanic, Nordic and generally forest ...

Umlauts and heavy metal go together like Jack and Coke — and we can thank Motörhead mastermind Lemmy Kilmister for teaching us that very important lesson. Among the countless tributes published ...

For Lemmy, though, the umlaut was neither gag nor phonetical necessity. Just as Motorhead’s early records injected a faster-louder rush and intensity into Seventies metal, shaking off any arena ...

10. An artificial language full of umlauts became hugely popular in the 1880s. 11. Heavy Metal Umlauts don’t look so heavy metal to umlaut users. Beginning with Blue Öyster Cult in the early ...

The umlauts in the name seemed to strike a chord with them. “I can remember it like it was yesterday,” Neil told Vanity Fair in 2009. “We were drinking Löwenbräu, and when we decided to ...

(The Wikpedia page for "metal umlaut" – an excellent resource – notes that the first known instance of the character was by a group called Amon Düül II. However, that band was, in fact ...

My sister, fluent in German, explained the pronunciation of the umlaut to me. Only later would I discover the importance of “rock dots,” particularly in metal. “It’s like a pair of eyes ...

What is it that makes umlauts so metal? It’s hard to say – is it the way they can make an O look like a tiny Satan? Is it the immediate associations with Germanic, Nordic and generally forest ...