![]() ![]() Well, we needed one, we got the band name, and we needed a logo.” When asked “Did you design your logo? When did that happen?”, James replied: Karges, Metallica‘s legendary frontman James Hetfield has talked about Metallica‘s logo and revealed how and when he creates it. In a new interview with Petersen Automotive Museum executive director Terry L. Szpajdel is not afraid to disclose the sum he was paid, incidentally to provide more evidence that Dave Grohl really is a nice guy – and to illustrate that the Lord of the Logos takes his business very seriously.Share on X (Twitter) Share on Facebook Share on Pinterest Share on LinkedIn Share on Email Share on Reddit Share on WhatsApp Eventually they did – and paid him $1,700 for full rights to the newly blackened design. Szpajdel says he took it upon himself to do draw a “proper” black metal version of the Foo Fighters logo, and then posted it repeatedly on social media with requests for the band’s management to contact him. I first thought about getting help to find who I have to sue, but then I changed my tactics.” How can my work be literally be mutilated in such a horrible way? I found it so unacceptable. ![]() “They were thinking it was a nod to me, but in fact it belittled me very seriously. “That was an absolute shock,” Szpajdel says. The original happened to be one of the Lord of the Logos’ creations. The band was selling an ugly Christmas sweater last year, emblazoned with the Foo Fighters name crudely rendered (in knitted wool) to resemble the logo of the Norwegian black metal band Emperor. “It was a spontaneous sale,” Szpajdel corrects. ![]() He refuses to call Foo Fighters a “client.” Seems like everyone these days wants to be as black metal as fuck. He also did a commission for Metallica in October, to “Mayhem-ize,” as he puts it, the original Metallica logo for another single use in a music video. Szpadjel says he’s been getting a lot of requests since Rihanna hired him to design a custom logo of her name – which was used only once at the MTV Music Video Awards in August. He’s had exhibitions in London, Japan and Poland, and has published a book that bears his title, Lord of the Logos, the name bestowed upon him by a fan in 2006.Ģ016 was a big year for him. Now 46 years old, Szpadjel has a day job at the Co-op grocers in Exeter, England, “which I love,” he says, and spends almost all his spare time on logo design. They tried to stop me, but they did not manage to stop me – because I simply ignored them! I did my own thing.” They said most of the bands I drew logos for are not good people. They found there was no future and it could only bring me problems. “I have a passion for nature and for trees, but my parents completely disapproved of my passion for metal and my passion for logos. “I was living with my parents until the age of 30 because I have done studies and listened to my parents, went to university for a degree in forestry engineering,” Szpajdel says. The Lord of the Logos had to practice his dark arts in secret. His first job was for the Portuguese band called Morbid Death. The Lord of the Logos imagines GigCity as black metal AFīorn in Gembloux, Belgium to Polish parents, Szpajdel took up his trade in 1989, inspired by bands like Possessed, Slayer, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, and many more he was into as a youth, and driven by his fascination for logos and brand design. “When it comes to black metal,” he says finally, “there is a very large variation within many subgenres.” In an interview I was warned would take a long time – and it did – the Lord of the Logos is as exacting in his conversation as he is in his designs. He goes into great detail on this subject. Some want more “frail” logos with the tree branches wilted and dying, also goat skulls, human bones, flames, dripping blood, razor blades, Satanic imagery, the Occult, things “that represent the dark side of humankind,” Szpajdel says. They really connect with cult of nature, so they want tree branches – a black forest!”ĭeath metal bands, on the other hand, tend to favour variations on the spooky olde English gothic font. ![]() Like you may have heard of bands from the Cascadian Mountains, or Elemental Chrysalis, a Shamanistic, dark, ambient, shoegaze kind of band. He explains, “Some bands have more unreadable logos that look like a pile of branches, especially for this kind of Shamanistic cult of nature, totally underground band that would release an album limited to 100 copies. That’s why they come to the Lord of the Logos. “And some clients want, and they actually say, ‘We want it to be as black metal as fuck!’ The blackest of the black metal!” “Some clients want readable logos,” he says. On Skype from his home in Devon, England, Szpajdel says it doesn’t matter to him. Guess the names of the bands! Answers below ![]()
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