Graphic Artist Fired After Making Death Metal Band’s Logo Legible For Album Cover
TOPEKA, KANSAS — Local graphic artist Samantha Trouppe, who specializes in album covers and band logos, was recently fired for designing a logo that was deemed too legible by the death metal band that hired her, baffled sources confirmed.
“I just assumed the band wanted a logo that’s, ya know, readable,” said Trouppe. “Helps with marketing and such. Kind of a no-brainer. It’s useful for potential fans to easily recognize your band’s name, even if it is unspeakable filth like Rotting Cuntstink. Who comes up with this stuff? With a name like that, I’m kinda glad they fired me.”
Longtime death metal fan Derek Cleary discussed the appeal of illegible logos.
“Bruh, half of the appeal of metal is the, like, over-the-topness,” stated Cleary. “Unintelligible guttural vocals growling horribly offensive lyrics laid over insanely fast tremolo riffs and blast beats you won’t remember five seconds after you hear it — that’s the sickest shit, bruh. The appeal is that it’s not appealing. Like, at all. To anyone. Same goes for the logo: the band’s name has gotta be literally unreadable and incoherent. If I can read the name on the cover, I’m out. Who the fuck wants to read? Metalheads don’t, that’s for fuckin’ sure.”
Musicologist Scott Loiselle spoke about heavy metal’s history with illegible writing.
“Metal has a proud, decades-long tradition of bands whose logos look like a child’s first attempt at cursive,” explained Louiselle. “That’s part of the allure — the extremity of it all, in all aspects. I’ll say this: sometimes, it’s better — at least for society — that bands like Corpsevomit and Chainsaw Analblast have logos that can’t be easily deciphered. If I were in a band called, say, Fecalphagia, I’d prefer that the logo look like it was drawn by someone in heroin withdrawal using their non-dominant hand. But that’s just me.”
At press time, Trouppe was considering a job offer from Necrofucker, but was hesitant because they wanted their logo to appear as if it was designed by someone having a stroke.
