10 Best Old-School Rock Band Logos Ever
Posted Wednesday 04/01/2009 5:00 AM in
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Larry Dobrow
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Best, Band, Grateful dead, YES, Aerosmith, Metallica, Rolling stones, AC/DC, Nine inch nails, logos, val halen
10. Metallica
As if Metallica weren’t intimidating enough already, what with their stern lectures about illegal music downloading and all, here comes their wrath-and-indignation logo. With it, the band took the AC/DC lightning-bolt motif to the next level, intensifying the eeeeeeevil via three-dimensional lettering and a few stray shards. Ten bucks says there’s a humorless grad student out there somewhere working on a thesis about the semantics of lightning bolts within rock & roll visual tropes, or something.
