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 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 ...

Best Incorporation of Multiple Umlauts The winner is, naturally, the Canadian metal band Voivod, who titled their 1986 album Rrröööaaarrr. Best and Most Desperate Use of an Umlaut In the face ...

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 ...

Believe it or not, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales doesn’t know everything in the hugely popular online encyclopedia he helped create, but he does know a thing or two about music – from the mysteries of ...

An umlaut that is sometimes gratuitously placed over a letter (or letters) in a rock band’s name is called a METAL UMLAUT, prësumǎbly ũndeř thê theøry thât it løøks cøøl. Brief ...

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 ...