Logo #30: Soulfly

Designed by longtime Samoan tattoo artist and sometime modern primitive Leo Zulueta in 1998 for Sepultura mainman Massimiliano "Max" Cavalera after he decided strike out on his own with Soulfly in 1997. The conventional wisdom among tattoo aficionados is that one should never get a band logo tattoo because it's so transitory a statement - but what about a band logo designed by a tattoo artist? Evocative of a tribal shield, it's a constant in a band that changes musicians as often as it travels through musical styles: metal, thrash, world music; deep groove. They are also quite possibly the heaviest thing to come out of Phoenix since the video game and the comic book mutant who has the power of tacky housing subdivisions and used car lots.

Logo #22: Sepultura

Designed in 1990 during Sepultura's "Arise" recording sessions by friend and fellow Brazilian musician and Overdose lead singer Pedro Alberto "Baza" (or "Bozo") Amorim, this emblem is often referred to as the "bone" logo, although it looks slightly crustacean and more than a little alien. Sepultura - a band named after the Portuguese for word for "grave" and not the intersection of Sepulveda and Ventura Boulevards - was founded in the early 1980s in Brazil, its passionate thrash metal forged in the fires of the Figueiredo military regime, the decline of the pornochanchada film industry and the continued reign of the Catholic Church, which, understandably, is not too “hot” for any metal heavier than gold. So to speak!