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320 pages
11 x 7.7 inches / 19,5 x 28 cm
A special French-language book collecting hundreds of band logos. Use your smartphone to translate the text into any language.
(ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE PROMOTIONAL TEXT)
Co-published with ABM Éditions
Preface by Thierry Chancogne
This is the story of one of the most exhilarating adventures in popular graphic design: the logos of metal bands (Death, Black, Industrial Gothic, Speed, Thrash, Grindcore, Doom, etc.).
From Gothic typefaces rooted in medieval imagery and lapidary lettering inspired by ancient or runic epigraphy, to geometric sans-serifs with sharp angles evoking science fiction, or even illegible scripts composed of interlaced patterns, drips, fangs, thorns, and roots, this radicalism serves as the visual extension of metal. Whether the bands belong to the Death, Black, Industrial Gothic, Speed, Thrash, Grindcore, or Doom subgenres, their logos are intentionally confrontational, raw, and iconoclastic. Acting as seals of belonging and markers of authority, they do more than just identify who is playing; they declare who the music is for, and what it stands against.
This is the account of a remarkable journey into vernacular “branding.” The focus here is not on a critical or musical analysis; after all, every band has its own unique way of screaming. Instead, this is a survey and classification based on style, on the specific ways these artists burn, destroy, ransack, melt, distort, fuse, and explode their instruments, their lettering, their vocal cords, and their graphic conventions. It explores the fascinating parallel between sound and aesthetics, and between aesthetics and sound.
(ORIGINAL FRENCH DESCRIPTION)
Co-édité avec ABM éditions
Préface de Thierry Chancogne
Voici le récit de l’une des plus exaltantes aventures de graphisme populaire : celle des logos de groupes de Metal (Death, Black, Industrial Gothic, Speed, Thrash, Grindcore, Doom…).
Typographies gothiques inscrites dans un imaginaire médiéval, lettres lapidaires inspirées de l’épigraphie antique ou runique, linéales géométriques aux angles tranchants évoquant la science-fiction, ou encore lettrages illisibles constitués d’entrelacs, de dégoulinures, de crocs, d’épines, ou de racines… Toute cette radicalité constitue l’extension visuelle du Metal. Les logos des groupes, qu’ils soient adeptes du Death, du Black, de l’Industrial Gothic, du Speed, du Thrash, du Grindcore, du Doom…, se veulent frontaux, rugueux, iconoclastes. Sceaux d’appartenance et signes d’autorité, ils ne disent pas seulement qui joue : ils disent pour qui et contre quoi.
Voici le récit de l’une des plus exaltantes aventures de « branding » vernaculaire. Il ne sera pas ici question d’avoir une approche critique et musicale : chacun hurle bien à sa manière. Il s’agit plutôt d’un recensement et d’une classification liée au style et à la façon de brûler, détruire, saccager, fondre, distordre, fusionner, exploser des instruments et des lettres, des cordes vocales et des codes graphiques. Et du parallèle fascinant entre son et esthétique, esthétique et son.
