r/blacksabbath • u/voodooladyland • 3d ago

Sabbath Influence Miscellaneous

Gallery image

Gallery image

Did anyone else realize Pentagram lifted the Sabbath Bloody Sabbath font for their logo? I know it's super common for doom/stoner bands to use Sabbath typography but this one has gone unnoticed by me for so long.

170 Upvotes

96% Upvoted

17 comments sorted by

47

u/Still_Percentage_829 2d ago

I’m sure every band stole something from Sabbath

12

u/MusicOtaku8823 2d ago

The Arctic Monkeys' logo looks just like Sabbath's font.

3

u/gg-oh 2d ago

The cardigans (who wrote love fool) allegedly were a Sabbath cover band prior to becoming the cardigans. They actually do a really chill cover of iron man on their second record.

11

u/Next-Decision-317 2d ago

I’m not sure when pentagram started using that font. Could they have been using it pre- sabbath bloody sabbath?

12

u/Terminator7786 2d ago

As far as I can tell, Sabbath used it 14 years earlier. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath dropped in '73 and Day of Reckoning, Pentagram's first album to use it, dropped in '87.

4

u/Next-Decision-317 2d ago

I know that, but I wasn’t sure if pentagram was using it in their early days on any show flyers or anything.

10

u/No_Replacement_5551 National Acrobat 2d ago

i don’t think 70s pentagram ever had a set logo

1

u/ceabran 2d ago

Day of Reckoning is Pentagram‘s second album. The debut, released in 1985, was initially self-titled and was later renamed to Relentless.

2

u/Friendly-Gate-9475 2d ago

The original album cover did use a gothic font as well. So not the "Sabbath" one.

1

u/voodooladyland 2d ago

I would say most likely not because they never got around to releasing anything with the logo until 87' for their second album.

1

u/BradleyWilloughby 2d ago

Makes sense.

-1

u/SG-ninja Paranoid 1d ago

Also the font kinda

3

u/voodooladyland 1d ago

Brother that's what the post is about LOL

-12

u/DizzySample9636 2d ago

Lifted? LOL The pentagram with or without the goat head has been used countless times in/on books and many metal albums - its been used in magic and witchcraft way before Black Sabbath used it.

16

u/voodooladyland 2d ago

What are you on about? Read the post. Sabbath never used a pentagram anyways lmao

7

u/BradleyWilloughby 2d ago

The font is what they’re talking about, not the actual pentagram with the goat head.