![]() ![]() We drew some inspiration for the Masks from the TV show Knight Rider. Movies like Fire and ice, Pretty much any Ralph Bakshi films. Visual inspiration actually comes from film and television. Who are your major visual influences? Daft Punk and Squarepusher’s Shobaleader project come to mind in terms of how you guys look on stage. Its started with a lot of Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, John Carpenter….But we draw inspiration from everything we listen to. Currently listening to a lot of Hallas. In the years to come you will see a shift in that. Only because our vision has yet to be fully realised. I’d say currently the music is more prominent than the visual. With your big emphasis on the visual aspects of your work what would you say are the percentage in your music? Other colors may be used, depending on the visual context surrounding the Slayer logo.David Lynch once said that cinema is 50% visual and 50% audio. The sharp angles and unusual lines of the letters emphasize the emotional temperature of the music. The wordmark made its debut on the cover of the “Show No Mercy” album (1983). However, the band members have denied any interest in Nazism quite a few times. It turned out that the logo resembled the Eagle atop swastika, so Slayer was accused of holding Nazi sympathies. Because of the emblem, the band had to appear in court. The Slayer logo depicting an eagle appeared with the release of the “Seasons in the Abyss” album in 1990. The incomplete pentagram motive has been a distinctive feature of the Slayer album covers ever since, including the album “Repentless” released in 2015. The combination of yellow and red make it bright and eye-catching, and the refined contours of both graphical and text parts point to the confidence, stability, and professionalism of the band and its music. Slayer comes back to its original logo, and its version, introduced in 1986. The renewed color palette now featured white and gradient gray, and the uneven contours looked messy yet cool, and were the most recognizable part of the band’s visual identity for six years, until the next redesign. The scratched logotype became lighter and wider with the redesign of 2009. It looked like it was colored by a pencil, though it was a professional and very stylish logo. The original style of the inscription came back in 2001, though the contours were similar to the first versions of the logo, its execution was completely different - its thin lines were scratched on a white background and featured a black color. The sans-serif typeface of its capital letters was complemented by a gradient white color and a grain texture of the letters, which had a gray shadow, making the emblem three-dimensional and airy. The redesign of 1988 brought a completely new wordmark to the band’s visual identity. The straight thick lines of the narrowed geometric letters looked sharp and edgy, showing the individuality of Slayer and its unique style. In 1995 the band starts using simply its logotype, executed in white and red, and placed on a black background. The contours of the swords were also cleaned and made more distinctive. The circular frame of the sword structure was colored yellow, as for the lettering, in gained a brighter shade of red and became enlarged. The redesign of 1986 changed the color palette of the emblem and refined its contours. The whole composition was placed on a black square and looked a bit spooky, reflecting the music of the band. The red stylized inscription was placed on a background of an unfinished pentagram, formed by four swords, enclosed in a gradient red circle. ![]() ![]() The original Slayer emblem was introduced in 1983 and boasted a dark color palette and evokes symbols. ![]()
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