J: eh, it's a decent logo though :) but i know what you mean
J: it's still better than bands that use prefixed fonts :)
J: you've got a point there, never really thought about it, but yeah, it does :D
M: i always think about that :) although he's used the same font always - when he first did it, i dunno if it would have been a set computer font or anything, it was a bit early for stuff like that. but its totally generic yeah :)
J: olde english or something :D
M: yeah gothic or some shit :)
J: although there is that one where the R tails off as an inverted cross
M: orly?
M: oh yeah, i do know that :) those were all unofficial tho yeah?
J: i believe so, ye :D
M: haha so the only burzum logo that included a custom font was made by some randoms elsewhere :)
J: i like the normal one anyway, it suits it
M: yeah, looks pretty cool :) i quite like that it's not fussy or pretentiously "unreadable" or any of that. a lot of the older bm ones aren't so silly, a lot you can read easily, they've just been changed to incorporate loads of symbolism and stuff, they're cool
M: it's rubbish, it makes me angry!!! their first logo is AMAZING i can't work out why they ever switched :/
J: i love their first one. i think it might be to do with them going onto a major :?
M: i wondered that, if perhaps someone wanted them to have something more easy to read - they never use the old logo now, although i don't own any of the physical cd's so perhaps it appears on the sleeves. tho i doubt it :/
J: i reckon it's a major label thing. most bands tend to have to alter something to either make them seem cleaner or more sellable to the mainstream market - depending on the label. i'm sure earache don't give a shit, but universal and the like might
M: well dimmu aren't on the biggest commercial labels ever - they were on some sub section of century media when they first got big, and now they're on earache - both labels deal with plenty of metal bands with stupider logos. maybe it was the timing or maybe new band members wanted to have a new logo, they've had a lot of lineup changes :? i've never considered why they gave up the old one before (never got past the anger) it is tres WYRD
J: must be a band decision then to become more known with a readable logo
M: stupidest decision ever.
although it probably did help become more commercial i suppose. it's not always that handy to show people merch and stuff and for people still not to have any idea who you are..
J: they could have at least made it look cool... like
immortal who had a similar logo
M: yeah, their new one is so lame, it's just their name written, it's not anything. they could have used a decent font a la immortal or burzum
J: or made it readable in a cool way :)
M: like
mayhem, that's easy to read, but its still a big logo sort of thing
J: mayhem's logo is fucking badass :D
because you can write it, that's always a good band logo if you can just scrawl it in marker or key it into a toilet door at the pub
M: i did :D
