If you're looking for the song I used during the timelapse (26:55), it's called Cold Rise by Gunnar Olsen. Apparently someone named Jincheng Zhang has taken this and a bunch of other songs from the TH-cam audio library, reuploaded them with different names and slapped his name on them. I don't know why TH-cam has allowed his channel to persist as long as it has, but please do not support this individual in any way.
I know someone on youtube used to use that music pretty often as their outro, just can't remember the channel name. Edit: Oh, shit, that was Armoured Skeptic. No wonder I couldn't remember the name.
Oh of course, xavleg! the band whose name all spelled out is: A Visionary Leader Executes Goals By Motivating An Optimistic Framework For Friendly Feedback And Sharing Stories Simply In Teamwork, Inspiring Minds In Wonder Of Achievements, Meanwhile Noting Details Under Time Restrictions Of A Broad Campaign With Action Plans While Always Encouraging Input In Public Projects Or Honing Fun Focused Feedback.
@@quillclock you could also just write something and then stack the letter on top of each other. ngl im a little disappointed at how unsophisticated this whole thing is. its like a 3 year old creating a cypher
The idea that the X's aren't even part of the acronym, that it's just there, like some Xbox gamertag or Myspace username, is the funniest part to me lmao
it took me super song to realize that. i was there thinking "x... x is part of acid? it doesnt make sense!" then i realized there was another one at the end.
It's not a internet reference at all, it's a hardcore thing. For example, people refer to pig destroyer as PxDx, anal cunt as AxCx. I can't think of any of the top of my head but people also use x's before and after
Personally I would have found it even funnier if the acronym was spelled like XAXVXLXEXGXBXMXAXOXFXFXFXAXSXSXSXSXIXTXIXMXIXWXOXAXMXNXDXUXTXRXOXAXBXCXWXAXPXWXAXEXIXIXPXPXOXHXFXFXFX
it comes from straight edge. tons of punk adjacent bands have x's at the beginning and end of their band name. makes sense since xavleg have core/grind elements
I really expected it to be nonsense lines and not have any letter forms at all. I'm amazed that it includes EVERY letter in the entire name. Fantastic job deciphering it!
I never thought I'd say this but I'm glad it turned out to be more complicated than I expected, because it wouldn't have made for much of a video otherwise
I mean yes, is not that be of a deal tho it seems just to be gross for the sake of being gross. But youtube is youtube, so you can even comment about it.
I remember back in the days when AxCx had the most "cringelord atrocity" metal name I was aware of lol. But nowadays Xavleg definitely takes the cake 😂 It's not even close.
Would've assumed you'd find it from working on it, but as far as I'm aware, Xavleg did a logo competition where pretty much anyone could send in a submission where they wanted the logos to be ridiculous since it's for a side "meme project" of a bunch of people in "actual" bands (a lot of the members are predominantly from Vulvodynia). So all the times you referred to how the artist and the band communicated of how it should look (being stretched or not for example) probably didn't happen.
They did hold a logo design contest at one point, but my understanding is that they had comissioned the logo in this video before that. Will have to verify!
Wow that took WAY long. I was checking your clock every time there's a cut in the video and it just adds 10 or 25 more minutes to it or even a whole day. Underrated video
Oh yeah, everything up until Stage 7 is just random cuts all over the place. Granted I only spent a couple of hours on it each day, but still... should have caught on to the full name much earlier. Call it an extreme case of tunnel vision.
I looked into the xavleg logo contest a while ago, and saw all except a party cannon styled design were using the full name and not the acronym, so I was kinda screaming at my screen for a while.
And people were wondering why I didn't try to decipher it any earlier. That would be like me rushing Malenia and then playing the rest of Elden Ring like "why'd they make this game so easy"
@@OctaveIndustries please help me. im hungry and tired. i am compelled to dive deeper into the rabbit hole. im afraid this is my last stop before i consume something horrible and never return to what i was before. welp. so long. death metal lore videos are being recommended as i type this.
i've had this logo on a shirt for months now because i like the band and think their funny but i genuilly had no idea if the logo even had any letters until now
@@BinglesP that's exactly what I was going to label them as originally, but it didn't make as much sense as I was hoping. Glad some people are catching on haha
@@OctaveIndustries To be fair, the stages of grief as they're usually presented have been debunked as a psychological rule(different kinds of people experience them differently so they aren't accurate for everybody), so you don't have to follow them to the exact typical order anyway.
I grabbed a copy of the image, duplicated and flipped, and set the layer to difference, then took another copy and set it to multiply, and another layer could be added with a lower opacity. This highlights the different areas, making a bit easier to see the hidden letters, but there is so much overlap, best of luck. Edit: There may also be faces, or pictures of zombies made with the letters, which would add to the shape complexity.
X american vans love electric green bees more and orbit free falling faces and see secret slithering super italian trucks impossibly making interchangeable worm oak apple man nuts drive up the road over a bleak cavern with amazing people whistling and emotionally interrogating integral perfect pulleys over half freed freedom freezers X!!!
X a very loud eel gave bad metaphors and oversaturated fantastical fripperies, and solicited some's severe, immediately terrible inevitable mnemonic interruption... while only allison, my neighbor, did understand that rhetoric on original appraisal - best comprehender where a persnickity-worded animal (eel) is involved! Perhaps people oughtn't hamper frolicking fantastical frameworks! X (allison and oughtn't are my two cop-outs: a proper noun and a contraction. The vibe of the comment this responds to is peak whimsy, but I wanted to see how coherent I could manage. It... worked? maybe?) ((edited for the second x))
Now that you mention it, I'm surprised I haven't seen any lichen-based metal logos. Sutekh Hexen's logo is literally a photographed pile of particularly-arranged sticks (the artist sent me the original photo of said sticks), so it's definitely not off the table.
dude the acronym is an entire ass story wtf 😭 edit: not that i'm surprised, some g***grind titles are childish to the extreme. i stumbled across one that was literally just ">:(' once.
@@ABoxOfCartonJuice bro its extremly graphic like /srs if you can stomach gory nsfw stuff just google ''xavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffx meaning''
@@ABoxOfCartonJuice uuh so theres a nun inside a church dying from both an infection and a fire and theres a priest ouside of the church happy with the whole thing for some reason
I'd do the "Fresh" at the bottom a bit differently, because I swear I see a more defined R and a lowercase e right next to the F. edit: Thinking about it a bit more, assuming that lowercase letters are actually there, is there a reason for it? Because in a mess like this, it'd be a breeze to hide the words in all caps, so having lowercase letters seems intentional. Getting back to the e for instance, I often mix upper and lowercase letters as well as cursive, depending on which are easier to write, meaning most e's I write are lowercase, because they can be done in a single stroke while remaining easily identifiable.
When watching this, I wasn’t sure what to expect. This process of deciphering metal band logos is kind of fascinating to me, though I am not into metal band myself. This blew my mind! Good and interesting video!
It reminds me of the metalocalypse bit where nathan says something like "we'll just mumble a bunch of words in it and pretend to get mad when someone says no one understands us"
For anyone wondering what XAVLEG means here you go 😊: "A Virtuous Life Exemplifies God’s Blessings, Manifesting Acts Of Faith, Forgiveness, Fellowship, And Sharing Scripture, Strengthening Souls In Trust, Inspiring Many In Worship Of Almighty Maker, Never Doubting Unity, Trust, Righteousness, Obedience, And Belief. Christ’s Word Anchors Peace While Advancing Eternal Inspiration In Prayer, Praise, Offering Hope, Faith Fulfills Forever."
This series actually got me into my currently favorite band, archspire. I saw the episode deciphering their logo and didn’t think too much of it and like a week later saw a clip of oli being silly stage and recognized the logo and though “what the hell I’ve seen it twice now, i should give it a listen.” Now I got signed records and got into guitar with the end goal of covering their music. Long road ahead
Tip, to find the origin of words, append the word etymology onto searches. For example, "sans etymology." Etymology is a field of study pertaining to the origin and evolution of language, if you're not aware.
I (was) also a graphic design student, and I feel the same way haha. What's even more of a challenge as a designer is trying to MAKE metal logos, because you basically have to throw every rule you've learned out the window.
It's the graphic design/artist mischievous side of "Hehehe I bet I could do this :)" verses the graphic design/artist professional side of "Oh God why would anyone DO that??" And they are both the same person.
I love this band unironically, and the guitarist’s other band, Vulvodynia (amazing band, with some drama). I did not think this was possible. Jfc you’re a God amongst men
If you do release the whole thing, you definately need to use different colors for touching letters, maybe do roygbiv with r always being the first letter of the word
You know, when I was younger my hand writing was often compared to chicken scratch, it’s still a bit bad, it’s just that my mind is so much faster than the pen. Little did anyone know that apparently I was a natural metal band logo savant, I should have listened to my art teacher when she said that my letters felt “alive”
If anyone truly wants to know what the acronym is, I will try to explain it in the most censored way possible. The simple explanation: Edgy word-salad about horrible things happening to a nun as her church burns down. Here is what I can try to say a literal translation would be, (parentheses are replacing words.): Acidic (liquid that can be excreted from your lower regions) Explosion Generated by Mass Amounts of poo-involved (form of "getting down" using the hand, clenched in a fist.) and "freaky" (form of "getting down" between two men) Inside the Maggot Infested "place of creation" of a Nun (who didn't want it) Dying Under the Roof of a Burning Church While a Priest Watches and (reaches his ending from watching his first baby be born)
I'll try my best to add on in conveying the acronym whilst also trying very hard to be nice to the filter by using a mix of the actual words and soundalike wording, all dispersed with weird punctuation. Hopefully hopefully you should be able to combine the two translations. Anyways: Acidic/baggin' all Liquid Explosion, Generated By Mass. Amounts Of philly sea cull misting And sad-mystic ebb-tick sniffle-ick. odd to me, Inside The insect kid magic-confess hid tomb Of A whole s-did Nun diving Under (The Roof Of A Burning birch). While A Priest Watches And reactivates In Immense. per first, pressure Over His First. Fresh feed us ..Uhh, ..basically
thank you to both of these comments, I am new to metal names and was worried when he couldn’t even begin to describe the full name on youtube. I didn’t want to search it up in case it was /that/ bad
My guess is that the font was probably made long ago, before Y2K, and because they needed to save as much memory as possible, they used a shorter word from a different language that meant the same thing. Then the usage of "sans" stuck within the font creation community that surely must have existed for so many different fonts to use the same word. Y'know, that or it was made in France. I have ZERO credentials, no merit to ANYTHING I say.
@@LovesickJothat doesn't make any sense. Sans is just a word people use because it sounds cool and sophisticated, so someone just decides to use it. (Probably, we can't know for sure, but it's certainly a lot more likely than storage saving :D)
Stands for Sans Serif, a Serif is the little lines making the base/top of letters etc in typefaces like Times New Roman, which is a serif typeface, as opposed to Helvetica or Arial, which are Sans Serif
@@LovesickJothis feels like one of those "say the wrong thing so someone corrects you" things. But I'm gonna do it anyway. For a long time, French was a primary language of the upper-class for most places in Europe, including Britain. Sans was pulled into English from that, but didn't really stick around in common speech like a lot of other French words. It is technically also an English word in that sense, just like "garage", just one you won't see very often. I'm not sure where "sans-serif" came from exactly, but looking it up it looks like it started being used around the early-mid 19th century. Which makes sense, that's about when people would have started caring about serif vs sans-serif text. Interestingly, it also looks like the word "serif" in English began with "sans-serif".
My god, the meaning of their band name is atrociously absurd, and in it's absurdity it is pretty funny. They be like, so we grabbed a thesaurus and tried to find a bunch of graphic and specific adjectives for our band name.
I’ve always been absolutely amazed by these letterings and metal name bands, and anything resembling this chaotic mess of typography. I’m an illustrator and I’m just blown away people can actually read and draw these, anyways, I love them
Having people guess what metal band logos spell out is actually a pretty fun trivia category. I'd probably leave this one for the 50th trivia night, too, though.
I looked up the acronym and they are definitely words. Words arranged in a specific order that form a sentence. The very sentence represented by the letters in the logo. Nothing more refreshing than viewing the words individually, but once arranged in the order that they are in, give the soul a tug as to let you know that they are definitely in a specific order. That specific order can be used to create sounds when speaking that would be understood by thousands, perhaps billions, of people.
In parts of the video you use so many color codes that I feel like it needs a map legend (or whatever those things that tell you what icons mean are) and that not a bad thing. I actually feel like it would add to the humor as well as understandability if there was one in the corner.
I gotchu on the acronym's meaning!!! A Very Lovable Elephant Gathers Bananas, Mangos, And Oranges For Friendly Forest Animals. Some Silly Squirrels Invite The Imaginative Monkey Into Whimsical Outdoor Adventures. Many New Ducks Unite To Row On A Big Calm Water Pond While An Eager Iguana Invents Perfectly Pleasant Origami Hats For Friends Forever.
I actually love this band. For context it's a joke side project that's the brainchild of 2 bands, Vulvodynia from South Africa and Stillbirth from Germany. They have 1 4 song EP called Gore and 1 23 song album called Gore 2.0 which also contain the 4 songs off the EP. It's one of my favorite "turn my brain off" albums.
If you're looking for the song I used during the timelapse (26:55), it's called Cold Rise by Gunnar Olsen.
Apparently someone named Jincheng Zhang has taken this and a bunch of other songs from the TH-cam audio library, reuploaded them with different names and slapped his name on them. I don't know why TH-cam has allowed his channel to persist as long as it has, but please do not support this individual in any way.
Thank you for informing us, Father Octave.
It's coming up as I wait for you by Eyer Lim on Shazam and it's the same song
Ive definitely heard that song as the intro for something, i cant recall, specifically 27:35-27:39
@@coolcola5828 'twas the least I could offer, my child
I know someone on youtube used to use that music pretty often as their outro, just can't remember the channel name.
Edit: Oh, shit, that was Armoured Skeptic. No wonder I couldn't remember the name.
that is not a logo that is a fungal growth
rorschach test esque
yep
Fr like give me art not bread
yeah inside the womb of the nun
@@freshbeans naaaaah you didn't need to say that
Oh of course, xavleg! the band whose name all spelled out is:
A Visionary Leader Executes Goals By Motivating An Optimistic Framework For Friendly Feedback And Sharing Stories Simply In Teamwork, Inspiring Minds In Wonder Of Achievements, Meanwhile Noting Details Under Time Restrictions Of A Broad Campaign With Action Plans While Always Encouraging Input In Public Projects Or Honing Fun Focused Feedback.
That would make it an amazingly nicer Acronym...
haha yeah
Yup! Nothing else it could possibly mean. No sacrilege, nothing horrifically gory. This is it.
This belongs on LinkedIn
Wasn’t there like a nun or something? Probably not.
they saw their cracked leather couch and were like "that shit fire af"
Touhou pfp spotted
@@BinglesPinitiate sex immediately
Touhou profile picture.
Your opinion is valid.
@@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic563 🧌
@@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic563 honestly surprised you managed to recognize tokiko. not many know her
I don’t know what’s more impressive, being able to decipher it, or being able to write in spaghetti
i mean you could just scribble in that style and no one would know. they are bound to find letters in it somewhere
@@quillclock you could also just write something and then stack the letter on top of each other. ngl im a little disappointed at how unsophisticated this whole thing is. its like a 3 year old creating a cypher
Maybe they're a way to make this easier with computer imagery techniques or something
lol
@@humanbean3wdym
The idea that the X's aren't even part of the acronym, that it's just there, like some Xbox gamertag or Myspace username, is the funniest part to me lmao
it took me super song to realize that. i was there thinking "x... x is part of acid? it doesnt make sense!" then i realized there was another one at the end.
It's not a internet reference at all, it's a hardcore thing. For example, people refer to pig destroyer as PxDx, anal cunt as AxCx. I can't think of any of the top of my head but people also use x's before and after
Personally I would have found it even funnier if the acronym was spelled like XAXVXLXEXGXBXMXAXOXFXFXFXAXSXSXSXSXIXTXIXMXIXWXOXAXMXNXDXUXTXRXOXAXBXCXWXAXPXWXAXEXIXIXPXPXOXHXFXFXFX
it comes from straight edge. tons of punk adjacent bands have x's at the beginning and end of their band name. makes sense since xavleg have core/grind elements
The thing is, you COULD still find an X in there if you wanted to force it.
I really expected it to be nonsense lines and not have any letter forms at all. I'm amazed that it includes EVERY letter in the entire name. Fantastic job deciphering it!
I never thought I'd say this but I'm glad it turned out to be more complicated than I expected, because it wouldn't have made for much of a video otherwise
It would be dishonorable if it was otherwise.
@@danix30001 yes I believe that is a cancelable offense by metal logo design standards
Congratulations on deciphering a 6/5 difficulty metal logo.
Thank you my friend!
Wow, Impressive
Oh he was NOT kidding when he said it was nsfw
the look of disgust and horror fading onto my face as i kept reading the meaning
I mean yes, is not that be of a deal tho it seems just to be gross for the sake of being gross. But youtube is youtube, so you can even comment about it.
FR I SEARCHED IT UP AND O H M Y G O D
I remember back in the days when AxCx had the most "cringelord atrocity" metal name I was aware of lol. But nowadays Xavleg definitely takes the cake 😂 It's not even close.
it sounds like a typical urbanspook plot
this is actually history.
8 years is far too many for any one metal logo to stand without a solution
@@OctaveIndustries we thank you for the labor that has gone into this solution 🫡
@@OctaveIndustries😂
Oh wow, that's a logo.
Edit: The full name is what I would call "death metal band name word salad that somehow formed a very unsafe for work sentence"
"Might as well be an Infant Annihilator Lyric" - The Actual Title of Xavleg..
That sentance would actually make a great joke metal band name
They could've just used XDMBNWSTSFAVUFWSX.
I unironically listen to this band and for the longest time i thought the logo was a parody joke
The whole band is a bunch of trolls lmao, extremely long words for titles and funny ones, e.g "***** for Harambe"
I mean, it is, but I suppose it does kinda boil down to how it's interpreted.
Incredible band
@@LeBornMajes rebbit band. looked them up, they all look like theyre from rebbit
@@bahshasreddit
Would've assumed you'd find it from working on it, but as far as I'm aware, Xavleg did a logo competition where pretty much anyone could send in a submission where they wanted the logos to be ridiculous since it's for a side "meme project" of a bunch of people in "actual" bands (a lot of the members are predominantly from Vulvodynia). So all the times you referred to how the artist and the band communicated of how it should look (being stretched or not for example) probably didn't happen.
these people have a thing for vaginal pain...
i expect them to do a band calling bifurcated penile meatus and ballmash next
They did hold a logo design contest at one point, but my understanding is that they had comissioned the logo in this video before that. Will have to verify!
Wow that took WAY long. I was checking your clock every time there's a cut in the video and it just adds 10 or 25 more minutes to it or even a whole day. Underrated video
THERE WAS LIKE 3 WHOLE DAYS AT ONE POINT
Oh yeah, everything up until Stage 7 is just random cuts all over the place. Granted I only spent a couple of hours on it each day, but still... should have caught on to the full name much earlier. Call it an extreme case of tunnel vision.
It took him 15 days or so to get this.
I love how this band only has a wikipedia page in Basque, Catalan, Hungarian, and Malay
I was wondering why I always ended up on the Catalan wikipedia page lol
but translating it into english gives us the absolutely golden line "Its members are rarely considered Christians."
@@MaydupNem with a name like that, I’m not surprised
@@ItsJustKay3141 makes you wonder when they are considered Christians
And its a south african band but the page does not even have a single south african language
I looked into the xavleg logo contest a while ago, and saw all except a party cannon styled design were using the full name and not the acronym, so I was kinda screaming at my screen for a while.
@@HA11EYS_COM3T yeeeah I don't blame you. It was frustrating for me to watch, too 😆
This is literally the Final Boss of Metal band logos,pure absolute insanity
There is actually a much worse one... check out 55gore
And people were wondering why I didn't try to decipher it any earlier. That would be like me rushing Malenia and then playing the rest of Elden Ring like "why'd they make this game so easy"
Hello , im a casual youtube viewer that just got summoned by the youtube algorithm , im impressed by what you've done , good job
Welcome casual TH-cam viewer. Please, make yourself comfortable and stay a while before resuming your journey.
@@OctaveIndustries please help me. im hungry and tired. i am compelled to dive deeper into the rabbit hole. im afraid this is my last stop before i consume something horrible and never return to what i was before. welp. so long. death metal lore videos are being recommended as i type this.
i've had this logo on a shirt for months now because i like the band and think their funny but i genuilly had no idea if the logo even had any letters until now
Yeah it's pretty easy to pass it off as total nonsense before closer inspection!
Fr I saw it once before and thought it was just a joke
Well that was the most interesting acronym I've had the curiosity of reading.
"interesting" is certainly one word you could use to describe the acronym, yes
I'm familiar with this band's infamous logo, but I still didn't expect the content of this video to _actually_ show you deciphering it. Remarkable
27:23 i absolutely love how the timelapse shows the current time on the computer as 2 AM, and then a second later showing 2 PM
I was a pharmacist a long time and whilst i’m pretty good at reading chicken scratch
this is another level, gj chief
Thank you for your service, it's hard work 🫡
0:17 best frame to pause on
Description updated with timestamps:
0:00 Nightmare
0:24 Introduction
3:36 Stage 1: Ignorance
4:56 Stage 2: Doubt
6:15 Stage 3: Distraction
7:39 Stage 4: Frustration
9:09 Stage 5: Delusion
10:37 Stage 6: Resignation
11:45 Stage 7: Revelation
13:36 Stage 8: Conviction (legitimate deciphering begins here)
26:55 Deciphering Timelapse
28:18 Recap
29:44 Acronym Solution Overview
41:45 Season Acknowledgements, Merch Reveal
Thx
The fact they're labeled like they're stages of grief 💀
@@BinglesP that's exactly what I was going to label them as originally, but it didn't make as much sense as I was hoping. Glad some people are catching on haha
@@OctaveIndustries To be fair, the stages of grief as they're usually presented have been debunked as a psychological rule(different kinds of people experience them differently so they aren't accurate for everybody), so you don't have to follow them to the exact typical order anyway.
I grabbed a copy of the image, duplicated and flipped, and set the layer to difference, then took another copy and set it to multiply, and another layer could be added with a lower opacity.
This highlights the different areas, making a bit easier to see the hidden letters, but there is so much overlap, best of luck.
Edit: There may also be faces, or pictures of zombies made with the letters, which would add to the shape complexity.
First vid I’ve seen from you but this was a great watch. Having 25 bands agree to feature on your merch is so cool as well! Thanks for the vid!
Absolutely, glad you enjoyed it!
23:17
"This is supposed to say 'septic'"
man i'm eating, stop opening the elder scroll on me
Flashbanged with some of the worst shit Santa has to see
*Opens "Blood" elder scroll. Sees horrific shit. Closes it.*
X american vans love electric green bees more and orbit free falling faces and see secret slithering super italian trucks impossibly making interchangeable worm oak apple man nuts drive up the road over a bleak cavern with amazing people whistling and emotionally interrogating integral perfect pulleys over half freed freedom freezers X!!!
Definitely
Now this is what I'm talking about. POETRY, ladies and gentlemen!
Green bees? I love green bees!
X a very loud eel gave bad metaphors and oversaturated fantastical fripperies, and solicited some's severe, immediately terrible inevitable mnemonic interruption... while only allison, my neighbor, did understand that rhetoric on original appraisal - best comprehender where a persnickity-worded animal (eel) is involved! Perhaps people oughtn't hamper frolicking fantastical frameworks! X
(allison and oughtn't are my two cop-outs: a proper noun and a contraction. The vibe of the comment this responds to is peak whimsy, but I wanted to see how coherent I could manage. It... worked? maybe?)
((edited for the second x))
I prefer reading this instead of what the actual thing says
Considering what this logo resembles, XAVLEG should've made their shorthand band name Lichen
Now that you mention it, I'm surprised I haven't seen any lichen-based metal logos. Sutekh Hexen's logo is literally a photographed pile of particularly-arranged sticks (the artist sent me the original photo of said sticks), so it's definitely not off the table.
dude the acronym is an entire ass story wtf 😭
edit: not that i'm surprised, some g***grind titles are childish to the extreme. i stumbled across one that was literally just ">:(' once.
Bro what does it stand for??
@@ABoxOfCartonJuice bro its extremly graphic like /srs if you can stomach gory nsfw stuff just google ''xavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffx meaning''
It just kept getting worse and worse 💀💀💀
@@ABoxOfCartonJuice uuh so theres a nun inside a church dying from both an infection and a fire and theres a priest ouside of the church happy with the whole thing for some reason
@@biscuitallis71 yeah I searched it up and oh my lord 😭
i knew the acronym was going to be body horror
6:43 Adding etymology always helps
If your doctor started a band
True meaning of logo was "Aspirin and ibuprofen" all along
Doctors will put goregrind logos on a prescription pad, and the pharmacist will dispense a whole ass band to you.
"dispense a whole ass band" love it
@@unholycrusader69 That's certainly what you'll need after trying to figure this thing out
i just got recommended this and i love it lmao great job man!
Thanks! Welcome to the channel :)
I'd do the "Fresh" at the bottom a bit differently, because I swear I see a more defined R and a lowercase e right next to the F. edit: Thinking about it a bit more, assuming that lowercase letters are actually there, is there a reason for it? Because in a mess like this, it'd be a breeze to hide the words in all caps, so having lowercase letters seems intentional. Getting back to the e for instance, I often mix upper and lowercase letters as well as cursive, depending on which are easier to write, meaning most e's I write are lowercase, because they can be done in a single stroke while remaining easily identifiable.
When watching this, I wasn’t sure what to expect. This process of deciphering metal band logos is kind of fascinating to me, though I am not into metal band myself. This blew my mind! Good and interesting video!
It reminds me of the metalocalypse bit where nathan says something like "we'll just mumble a bunch of words in it and pretend to get mad when someone says no one understands us"
For anyone wondering what XAVLEG means here you go 😊:
"A Virtuous Life Exemplifies God’s Blessings, Manifesting Acts Of Faith, Forgiveness, Fellowship, And Sharing Scripture, Strengthening Souls In Trust, Inspiring Many In Worship Of Almighty Maker, Never Doubting Unity, Trust, Righteousness, Obedience, And Belief. Christ’s Word Anchors Peace While Advancing Eternal Inspiration In Prayer, Praise, Offering Hope, Faith Fulfills Forever."
I wonder if these logos are actually just nonsense and we are just hallucinating the letters
Probably
"Sans" in English comes from French
French "sans" from older French "senz", from "sens" from "sen" + -s, from Latin "sine"
And it means "without"
And he remembers you're genocides
@paolarei4418 what
@@MrViki60 sans undertale
@paolarei4418 I AM GENOCIDES!
"i wonder what the acronym stands for?"
uh oh
Searched it up. Its brutal. I mean what was I expecting with an acronym that long 😭
bro only a middle schooler could create that name for a band wtf
and they are a christian metal band according to Spanish wikipedia.
@@hamishwhitehenderson5197 Probably edited
i straight up looked at that logo and went "nah thats literally just a scribble"
This series actually got me into my currently favorite band, archspire. I saw the episode deciphering their logo and didn’t think too much of it and like a week later saw a clip of oli being silly stage and recognized the logo and though “what the hell I’ve seen it twice now, i should give it a listen.” Now I got signed records and got into guitar with the end goal of covering their music. Long road ahead
Make content pls 😭
Wow, you've been here a while then! Glad you're still enjoying the series -- and that you got some music recs out of it, too :)
Tip, to find the origin of words, append the word etymology onto searches. For example, "sans etymology." Etymology is a field of study pertaining to the origin and evolution of language, if you're not aware.
I will keep that in mind for the next time I want to procrastinate deciphering a painfully difficult metal logo, thank you
Fascinating. Definitely going to keep an eye on this channel, love seeing the process you go through as you try to make these logos readable.
I looked up what it stood for...
how do you un-learn a language?
uhh maybe stopping using it
legendary xavleg, i wonder what he has for us next...
Literally nothing until I have a chance to recover all the sleep I lost to editing this video lol
@@OctaveIndustriestake a picture of a pile of leaves and decipher every atom in it
first time seeing this series, it's an hilarious idea. Impressed with the execution and I appreciate the dedication.
Being able to call them a local band of mine is my greatest privilege
Didn't know you had a youtube page!!! so cool to see longer form content, loved the instagram videos! keep it up ;3
Thank ya! Welcome from the other side :)
as a graphic design student i find metal logos beautiful but also egregious
I (was) also a graphic design student, and I feel the same way haha. What's even more of a challenge as a designer is trying to MAKE metal logos, because you basically have to throw every rule you've learned out the window.
It's the graphic design/artist mischievous side of "Hehehe I bet I could do this :)" verses the graphic design/artist professional side of "Oh God why would anyone DO that??" And they are both the same person.
Beautiful, just earned a sub. Holy shit the dedication is real
I love this band unironically, and the guitarist’s other band, Vulvodynia (amazing band, with some drama). I did not think this was possible. Jfc you’re a God amongst men
27:10 this clip alone tells you everything you need to know about this endeavour
I can't belive someone gas actually done this i thought it was impossible
This is the final boss of metal logos
Just a small thing...hide the date on your taskbar in the edit as it breaks the illusion. You're jumping back and forward in the footage
i am flabbergasted and in awe of this man's determination
11:40 careful man, the full name was in the video.
oh god...
JEE-ZUS.
That acronym is uh.. something lol was dying laughing looking it up.
If you do release the whole thing, you definately need to use different colors for touching letters, maybe do roygbiv with r always being the first letter of the word
my best and only guess is it's some extremely violent act involving a women, either a mother or a child.
welp it was somewhat predictable but at least it wasn't a child
@@syprachuthere is a fetus involved
yep, it's actually hilarious how over the top it is
Good vid! I appreciate the effort in editing
The energy drink pile is honestly iconic
I didn't expect that shot to turn out as well as it did tbh
Saw xavleg in the title, clicked in as a new viewer and enjoyed the video! Good stuff
Welcome, and thank you for the support!
You know, when I was younger my hand writing was often compared to chicken scratch, it’s still a bit bad, it’s just that my mind is so much faster than the pen. Little did anyone know that apparently I was a natural metal band logo savant, I should have listened to my art teacher when she said that my letters felt “alive”
we went from trying to understand the Sumerian language to trying to understand metal logos
If anyone truly wants to know what the acronym is, I will try to explain it in the most censored way possible.
The simple explanation: Edgy word-salad about horrible things happening to a nun as her church burns down.
Here is what I can try to say a literal translation would be, (parentheses are replacing words.): Acidic (liquid that can be excreted from your lower regions) Explosion Generated by Mass Amounts of poo-involved (form of "getting down" using the hand, clenched in a fist.) and "freaky" (form of "getting down" between two men) Inside the Maggot Infested "place of creation" of a Nun (who didn't want it) Dying Under the Roof of a Burning Church While a Priest Watches and (reaches his ending from watching his first baby be born)
I'll try my best to add on in conveying the acronym whilst also trying very hard to be nice to the filter by using a mix of the actual words and soundalike wording, all dispersed with weird punctuation. Hopefully hopefully you should be able to combine the two translations.
Anyways: Acidic/baggin' all Liquid Explosion, Generated By Mass. Amounts Of philly sea cull misting And sad-mystic ebb-tick sniffle-ick. odd to me, Inside The insect kid magic-confess hid tomb Of A whole s-did Nun diving Under (The Roof Of A Burning birch). While A Priest Watches And reactivates In Immense. per first, pressure
Over His First. Fresh feed us
..Uhh, ..basically
thank you to both of these comments, I am new to metal names and was worried when he couldn’t even begin to describe the full name on youtube. I didn’t want to search it up in case it was /that/ bad
@@hetty5531 no problem gangalang i was in your boots a few months ago too 😅
@@raspberryjam thanks for adding on!
6:30 "Sans" means literally without, but in french. idk why they use french, but it is what it is
My guess is that the font was probably made long ago, before Y2K, and because they needed to save as much memory as possible, they used a shorter word from a different language that meant the same thing. Then the usage of "sans" stuck within the font creation community that surely must have existed for so many different fonts to use the same word.
Y'know, that or it was made in France. I have ZERO credentials, no merit to ANYTHING I say.
@@LovesickJothat doesn't make any sense. Sans is just a word people use because it sounds cool and sophisticated, so someone just decides to use it. (Probably, we can't know for sure, but it's certainly a lot more likely than storage saving :D)
Stands for Sans Serif, a Serif is the little lines making the base/top of letters etc in typefaces like Times New Roman, which is a serif typeface, as opposed to Helvetica or Arial, which are Sans Serif
snas undertake
@@LovesickJothis feels like one of those "say the wrong thing so someone corrects you" things. But I'm gonna do it anyway.
For a long time, French was a primary language of the upper-class for most places in Europe, including Britain. Sans was pulled into English from that, but didn't really stick around in common speech like a lot of other French words. It is technically also an English word in that sense, just like "garage", just one you won't see very often.
I'm not sure where "sans-serif" came from exactly, but looking it up it looks like it started being used around the early-mid 19th century. Which makes sense, that's about when people would have started caring about serif vs sans-serif text. Interestingly, it also looks like the word "serif" in English began with "sans-serif".
16:12 the pure excitement of him finding another letter is so wholesome hahaha
Experiencing the solution firsthand after a week of bashing my head against a metaphorical wall was nothing short of euphoric
@OctaveIndustries That's RAW emotion right there! Hard to come by nowadays..
Fun fact: Xavleg has a song called Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
It's my favourite
The layers of gray under pink under green looks sick
LETS GOOOO A LONG VIDEO FROM THIS CHANNEL FINALLY
Happy to deliver :)
Great video, made the mistake of looking up the full band name and got a lil nauseous… keep up the great work!
All I have to say about that name is whoever wrote that is not making it into heaven.
@@Supermarine-Spitfire-mk-IX even if they spend the rest of their life repenting? Poor fella.
@@BigUziVert2190 glad you're enjoying the series - and I hope your stomach has recovered!
Nice to know that after listening to metal for 2 decades that I can still be caught off guard by a band name
Oh they're definitely keeping us on our toes
I actually love this band! I think their logo is cool and fun, I love over the top metal band logos
This name looks like an acronym of deep web isekai deep down that no one knows
@@UnConstant "deep web isekai" has so much narrative potential
Amazing video! Great work!
I have heard the band they are cool.
My god, the meaning of their band name is atrociously absurd, and in it's absurdity it is pretty funny. They be like, so we grabbed a thesaurus and tried to find a bunch of graphic and specific adjectives for our band name.
40:16 There's a perfect H just to the right of that, with a much clearer crossbar, and it doesn't even overlap the S.
seeing you look for the linguistic origin of sans only to find sans undertale was so hilarious
Just got this channel recommended... subbed instantly
The full name is about what I expected. Kinda funny to name your band that tbh
I’ve always been absolutely amazed by these letterings and metal name bands, and anything resembling this chaotic mess of typography. I’m an illustrator and I’m just blown away people can actually read and draw these, anyways, I love them
That looks exactly like my regular hand writing.
Me to me to 😅
Went through the five stages of grief and then succeeded, great video
I think you showed the entire name in stage 3 lol
Hit me with a timestamp cuz I'm not seeing it
@@OctaveIndustries11:10 when you’re looking at the artist’s page
@@OctaveIndustries 11:40 is clearly showing the name
So if this doesn't go down, you can easily make the follow up video
@@noogiesmoh shoot you're right. Praying that TH-cam's content policing systems can't pick up text at that scale 😅
Having people guess what metal band logos spell out is actually a pretty fun trivia category. I'd probably leave this one for the 50th trivia night, too, though.
I knew it had the full words in it all along, a friend and I tried this years ago and we gave up after "acidic" lmao
I looked up the acronym and they are definitely words. Words arranged in a specific order that form a sentence. The very sentence represented by the letters in the logo. Nothing more refreshing than viewing the words individually, but once arranged in the order that they are in, give the soul a tug as to let you know that they are definitely in a specific order. That specific order can be used to create sounds when speaking that would be understood by thousands, perhaps billions, of people.
I think you're underselling it
@OctaveIndustries I may be underselling it, but am I wrong?
In parts of the video you use so many color codes that I feel like it needs a map legend (or whatever those things that tell you what icons mean are) and that not a bad thing. I actually feel like it would add to the humor as well as understandability if there was one in the corner.
makes me want to start a metal band and make the logo just a 4-letter word in Helvetica
I gotchu on the acronym's meaning!!!
A Very Lovable Elephant Gathers Bananas, Mangos, And Oranges For Friendly Forest Animals. Some Silly Squirrels Invite The Imaginative Monkey Into Whimsical Outdoor Adventures. Many New Ducks Unite To Row On A Big Calm Water Pond While An Eager Iguana Invents Perfectly Pleasant Origami Hats For Friends Forever.
"Do you speak italian pasta?"
"No, but I can write it."
I actually love this band. For context it's a joke side project that's the brainchild of 2 bands, Vulvodynia from South Africa and Stillbirth from Germany. They have 1 4 song EP called Gore and 1 23 song album called Gore 2.0 which also contain the 4 songs off the EP. It's one of my favorite "turn my brain off" albums.
7:05 I haven’t heard the “Initial D” soundtrack music for years, thank you for refreshing my memory of those fantastic tunes.
what if i make a metal logo that is Literally the first page of the bible or some shiz XD
I will not be stopping you. In fact, I would encourage it.
That would be fucking dope
hello, my friend, i would like to introduce you to the quran
Ashadu ana la illaha il Allah sa ashadu ana Muhammadun rasul Allah@@bahshas
They took one look at a mycelial network and said “Yup. That’s metal af.”
Band logo❌
Cobweb✅
Ah yes, the metalhead captcha.
THE GREATEST GRAPHIC DESIGNER THAT'S EVER LIVED
That's going straight to my head 🥰