A metal umlaut (also known as röck döts) is a diacritic that is sometimes used gratuitously or decoratively over letters in the names of mainly hard rock...

placed over a letter Metal umlaut, used in names of heavy metal or hard rock bands for visual rather than phonetic effect Umlaut (linguistics), a sound...

modified with an umlaut or diaeresis. Ö, or ö, is a variant of the letter O. In many languages, the letter "ö", or the "o" modified with an umlaut, is used to...

Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States...

used in some spoken languages. The character has also found use as a metal umlaut. U+00FF ÿ LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS U+0178 Ÿ LATIN CAPITAL...

spelling may take on a cult value in popular culture, such as the heavy metal umlaut. Other examples include The Byrds, and Led Zeppelin, in which "led" was...

1980s inspired the 1980s space rock band Underground Zerø to use a heavy metal umlaut Scandinavian vowel ø in the band's name and as the band logo on all their...

Korean boy group ZE:A's newest logo (styled as "ZΞA") (Compare: Heavy Metal umlaut; Faux Cyrillic) Look up Ξ or ξ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wikimedia...

prior to major distribution". The spelling is a typical example of a "metal umlaut". Night on Bröcken has been reissued several times. The first edition...

title of the fictional band Spın̈al Tap. Its use there parodies the metal umlaut used gratuitously by several actual bands, such as Blue Öyster Cult,...