Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Metal umlaut" in English language version.
Some groups, for example Blue Öyster Cult and Motörhead, added gratuitous umlauts to their names to conjure up a more generic gothic horror, a practice that continued into the 1980s with Mötley Crüe and others.
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