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A heavy metal umlaut is an umlaut over some of the letters in the names of a heavy metal band — although the names will then sound very silly to people who use languages in which umlauts are common, such as speakers of German, Turkish, and Swedish. The use of umlauts is often in concert with using Blackletter type (or more often Pseudo-Blackletter) in the band logo, to give it a more gothic feel. Many bands have taken to using diacritics, often gratuitously, in their names. The original use appears to have been by the Blue Öyster Cult in 1971. Motörhead and Mötley Crüe then followed. Spoof band Spinal Tap parodied the idea still further in 1982 by putting the umlaut over the letter "n", which does not occur in any known language or belong to any standard character set.

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