I thought about this when listening to an album from Lord Belial. I actually really liked their old logo, despite it being cheesy, and for the life of me I can't figure out why they would change it to this other logo which is just totally generic Euro-Black. Do you guys have any other examples? Or maybe you can list bands whose logos changed for the BETTER as an alternative

I was just thinking about this topic when listening to Gates of Ishtar. They went from this on their first two albums to this on their last album. Why?

Dying Fetus had a very plain text logo for the longest time until they took a more death metal logo in 2016. Now they seem to use a fusion of the two which I think is cool.

Dimmu Borgir and Immortal also come to mind. Both discontinued their original black metal logos and took on more conventional logos that were more easier to read. In those cases I don't necessarily think it was a change for the worse in terms of logos since both changes came at a time when both bands' styles evolved.

That original Lord Belial logo isn't great but it's much better than that generic Szpajdel logo.

I second Dying Fetus, the first logo was amazing. Now they combined the two.

Sepultura comes to mind immediately. Not that the current one is bad, but it's just the band's name in a bland font.

I mean, this one was cool AF.

Sepultura also changed their logo at a stylistic crossroad, so it's quite understandable.

EDIT: They already had the text logo on Arise, so scratch that.

Any band that went from a logo to a font. No exceptions.

Speaking of this, I hate how At the Gates went from having a cool logo with actual gates in it on the debut to boring font of the next album

Yeah At the Gates is really one of the worst culprits of this. With many of the examples posted (Immortal for example) I think that while the new logos are pretty generic and boring, the originals aren't that great either. At the Gates however, got rid of one of the best logos out there.

First logo: Cool and very in line with 90s death metal, even if "Lunar Strain" and "The Jester Race" are quite melodic.
Second logo: It's fine, I guess? Just a font. perhaps HighwayCorsair has a point.
Third logo: I mean... it definitely gives off alt-metal vibes, which is what they are now, so there's that.

I prefer the old logo.

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The 2000's are ass.

Old 90s death metal logos were peak metal graphic design.

They went from a cool death-y looking logo, to something that looks like it's for a hotel chain.