Bizarrely, the word “umlaut” contains no umlauts itself. But that didn’t stop a generation of metal and hard rock bands from punctuational insanity, throwing the toughest two dots known to man into their names wherever they felt like it. Can you pick out the correct placement of the world’s heaviest diacritic in each band name? (Word of warning: Some band names may contain no umlauts whatsoever. Sissies.)
Take the Quiz: Heavy Metal Umlauts
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And after the quiz, all I can think about is this:
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/openletters/umlaut.html
posted by kp on 8-17-2009 at 12:20 pm
Sorry to give an answer away here, but…
The “Ä” in “Die Ärzte” is no Heavy Metal Umlaut. It’s a German band and the name “Die Ärzte” simply means “The Doctors”. The spelling of “Ärzte” is correct just the way it is, no Heavy Metal Umlaut intended.
Besides that, it’s no Metal band either. ;)
(The 3 dots however are a parody of the Heavy Metal Umlaut)
posted by net on 8-17-2009 at 12:56 pm
Great quiz as usual. But, I’ve never considered Husker Du a metal band, either.
posted by hifidigitalboy on 8-17-2009 at 3:08 pm
I think that’s the worst quiz I’ve ever taken at the Floss. 2 of 10. Ouch. What? No Dokken? I’d have gotten Dokken right.
reCaptcha The office
(not making that up, The is even capitalized)
posted by Jonny on 8-17-2009 at 3:38 pm