heavy metal umlaut

English

Noun

Examples
Motörhead Queensrÿche Mötley Crüe

heavy metal umlaut (plural heavy metal umlauts)

1. An umlaut (“diacritical mark”) over a letter in the name of a heavy metal band, added gratuitously for mere stylistic effect.
   • 2007, Mark Ellingham, editor, The Rough Guide Book of Playlists‎^[1], →ISBN, page 32:

     Blue Öyster Cult
     Too clever by half to be heavy-metallers (though not too clever to deploy a Heavy Metal umlaut), the Cult's list of listenable songs goes nowhere near eleven.

Synonyms

• röck döts (plural)

Translations

umlaut in the name of a heavy metal band

• Dutch: metalumlaut n
• Esperanto: metalroka umlaŭto
• Swedish: heavy metal-prickar c pl (literally “heavy metal dots”)

See also

• Zalgo