For more than half of my life I’m interested in metal music and it’s sub-genres. I always liked their logos, they are usually typographic only and it helps to identify what could be expected from the band by the use of typefaces and it’s distortions.
I came across this video last week and I must say I absolutely love how this logo has been done. Those tree branches seems like to be giving a framing effect to this logo design. It has those lines that are particular for metal music logos as well ass a bit of asymmetry. In general, this looks very aesthetically pleasing. As for someone who would like to do metal band logos in the future, this seems very inspiring. Here’s how the logo design looks as well as video link below:
Edit:
I gave it some though and I have realised, this looks way too clean to be Black Metal logo, which would result in viewer not being able to understand for which sub-genre this logo stands for. Black metal sounds “trashy”, it has a garage sound to it and it isn’t as clean as for example melodic death metal or most of other metal sub-genres. Black metal is meant to have noise going on when it comes to music. As someone who listen to such music, I know for sure that it’s done on purpose, that’s why I believe this logo should reflect it more. It feels like there could be more noise going on in this logo above, because right now it feels like it’s a nu metal band rather than black metal, which is very different. It feels too clean now, which is one of main features I’ve noticed nu metal band logos has. Here’s an example of nu metal band logo:
To make my point more legible, I have decided to show you how most of the black metal logos look like. Most of these logos are sharp and it has noise effect, which I was quite missing in the logo design I have found on Youtube. Black metal is considered as an extreme metal in general, so it usually contains extreme elements too as well as “ornate calligraphy and symmetrical designs” as Mark Riddick (writer of the book “Logos from Hell” says. )