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Recently did a segment where we tried to read heavy and death metal band names as best we could.
 
 
We had our metal head friend pick out some names for us to attempt. It turned out WAY harder than he anticipated. Anywho, my question for you guys, what are some of the craziest looking band logo's you've seen?
 
Would love to do this segment again with some handpicked difficult-to-read band names from these forums, it can be smaller unknown bands or bigger ones, doesn't really matter. 
 
Thanks in advance for anyone who wanted to pitch some ideas 
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On 3/16/2021 at 1:27 PM, Wally420 said:
Recently did a segment where we tried to read heavy and death metal band names as best we could.
 
 
We had our metal head friend pick out some names for us to attempt. It turned out WAY harder than he anticipated. Anywho, my question for you guys, what are some of the craziest looking band logo's you've seen?
 
Would love to do this segment again with some handpicked difficult-to-read band names from these forums, it can be smaller unknown bands or bigger ones, doesn't really matter. 
 
Thanks in advance for anyone who wanted to pitch some ideas 

these black metal bands i cant work out what the name is from the logo.

1)night bringer  2)prosanctus  3)mistigo vargoth darkestra.

hows this for a start. 

 

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On 4/25/2021 at 3:40 PM, blaaacdoommmmfan said:

3)mistigo vargoth darkestra.

Mistigo Varggoth Darkestra isn't even really black metal, it's like "dark ambient" or "dungeon synth" or something. It's another one of Varggoth's side projects that is nowhere near as good as Nokturnal Mortum.

He has a new death metal project called Necrom but if it's anything like his other side projects, it's probably not worth listening to. He needs to just stick to Nokturnal Mortum and put all of his creative energy into that.

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On 11/1/2021 at 1:27 AM, NokturnalBoredom said:

Mistigo Varggoth Darkestra isn't even really black metal, it's like "dark ambient" or "dungeon synth" or something. It's another one of Varggoth's side projects that is nowhere near as good as Nokturnal Mortum.

He has a new death metal project called Necrom but if it's anything like his other side projects, it's probably not worth listening to. He needs to just stick to Nokturnal Mortum and put all of his creative energy into that.

Caught me out. I googled obscure logos as I wanted extremely hard to work out ones.  Don't know there music. 😄

Thanks for info. 

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3 hours ago, blaaacdoommmmfan said:

I googled obscure logos as I wanted extremely hard to work out ones.  Don't know there music

Trust me, you don't want to. It's basically Daudi Baldrs-era Burzum worship, and Daudi Baldrs was the worst era of Burzum, but Varggoth fancies himself a Ukrainian Varg Vikernes, so since Varg took Burzum in an "ambient" direction, Varggoth created Mistigo Varggoth Darkestra and like nobody who liked Nokturnal Mortum listened to it (since The Key to the Gates of Apocalypses was a single, 72 minute long track and nobody really has the patience for that).

I tried listening to Midnight Fullmoon and lost interest three minutes into the opening 12 minute track. Luckily I downloaded it off of Soulseek so I did not get suckered into paying money for Varggoth's beeps & boops project.

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On 11/4/2021 at 10:15 PM, NokturnalBoredom said:

Trust me, you don't want to. It's basically Daudi Baldrs-era Burzum worship, and Daudi Baldrs was the worst era of Burzum, but Varggoth fancies himself a Ukrainian Varg Vikernes, so since Varg took Burzum in an "ambient" direction, Varggoth created Mistigo Varggoth Darkestra and like nobody who liked Nokturnal Mortum listened to it (since The Key to the Gates of Apocalypses was a single, 72 minute long track and nobody really has the patience for that).

I tried listening to Midnight Fullmoon and lost interest three minutes into the opening 12 minute track. Luckily I downloaded it off of Soulseek so I did not get suckered into paying money for Varggoth's beeps & boops project.

Those ambient album can be hard to get in to. Wolves in throne room did one. I was bit disappointed when the aquarium/space music just carried on and on and no heavy guitar kicked in😣 beeps and boops music. That's good description ☺️.    Out of interest is it vargs music which wolves in the throne room most sound like. 

Yeah may give vargoths ambient music a miss then if watching paint dry is more interesting.

Perhaps it's music that gets better with more plays. Will let someone else listen to it.

Is suggesting police play it for crowd dispersals a bit cheeky.😁it might work

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