Metal Logo Generator

Free band logo maker. Type your band's name and drag the slider until it's unreadable.

Eight bands that don't exist

Tap one to load it into the generator.

You've got the logo. Now the lyric video.

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How the metal logo generator works

Metalizer doesn't pick fonts. It changes them. Your band name is rasterized and measured: the distance from every pixel to the nearest letter edge, inside and out. That distance field is what the slider drives, and the seven engine curves show you exactly how.

One rule is never broken: spikes may only grow into space that connects to the outside of the word, so letters never eat each other and counters never close up.

This is a fully procedural engine, with opinionated rules about what metal logos look like, genre by genre.

No AI image generation. No library of premade logos. Same name, same settings, same seed, same logo, every time.

Black metal vs. Death metal logo styles

The subgenre conventions are basically stereotypes, and they are mostly about which direction the ink travels:

Heavy metal logos

Metalness 0–25

Heavy metal logos stay readable: wide, arched, slightly sheared, with a bevel and a drop shadow doing the work. This is the end of the slider where the name is still a word you read at thumbnail size.

Thrash metal logos

Metalness 25–50

Thrash logos go angular: the letters lean, the spikes straighten out and slash at varied angles, and the first and last letters grow the long capping points that run the length of the word.

Death metal logos

Metalness 50–75

Death metal logos go heavy and wet: strokes swell until the counters are nearly shut and drips form on every downward-facing edge. Legibility is traded for mass.

Black metal logos

Metalness 75–100

Black metal logos go the other way entirely: thin, symmetrical, spidery. The letters shrink to hairlines and the negative space fills with branches until the name is closer to a sigil than a word.

Every transition between them is a crossfade, so there is no point where the style switches.

What you can use your band logo for

The PNG comes out 2000px wide, which is enough for a demo cover, a Bandcamp or Spotify header. Take the transparent version for anything the logo has to sit on top of like a gig poster, a shirt print, a sticker sheet or a YouTube thumbnail. The SVG is real vector geometry, so it scales to any size.

Plenty of bands use a generated logo as a placeholder while they save up for an artist. But if you like the logo you made, it's yours to use.

Nothing is watermarked and nothing is gated. If a logo comes out well, the most useful thing you can do is share the link.

Questions

Is the metal logo generator free?
Completely. No account, no email, no watermark, no export limit.
Can I use the logo commercially?
Yes. Shirts, covers, posters, merch, all of it, with no attribution required. I don't claim ownership of anything you generate. Two caveats:
  • The letterforms start from open-licensed typefaces before the generator deforms them. High metalness leaves nothing of the original outline, but a low-metalness logo can still sit close to the source. If you plan to trademark a logo, have a designer redraw the final version as custom lettering.
  • Check that the band name isn't already taken.
What file formats do I get?
PNG at 2000px wide, and SVG. The PNG is the one to grab for Instagram, Bandcamp or a thumbnail, and it comes on the dark plate you see in the preview, inverted for print, or on a transparent background to drop onto a photo. The SVG is real vector geometry, so it scales to a backdrop or a screen print without going soft.
Can I make a black metal logo specifically?
Push the slider past about 75 metalness. The letters keep their weight, and a mirrored wreath of long, thorned strokes grows out of them, one from the top and bottom of every letter plus horns at the ends, until it is complete at about 90. Past 90 it echoes and wrinkles into the dense, barely-legible mass the second wave settled on. Between about 50 and 75 metalness you get death metal instead: heavy strokes and drips.
How do I make my band logo readable and metal at the same time?
Stay under about 45 metalness. You keep the arch, the shear and the drop shadow, and the spikes stay short enough that the letters still read at thumbnail size. Shorter names survive further up the slider than long ones, and hitting Shuffle a few times at the same setting often finds a cleaner arrangement of spikes.
Why can't I read my own logo?
Congratulations, you've reached black metal. Past about 95 metalness the generator is doing what the genre does: the name stops being a word and becomes a sigil you're supposed to recognize rather than read. If you need it legible, drag the slider left.

Why is this free?

The internet I grew up on gave things away just because someone wanted them to exist. This is one of those.

It also helps people discover LyricEdits, which is the thing I actually sell. Gating it would defeat the point.

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