Logo Ideas: From other bands

We are looking into logos to represent our band. We have looked into a lot of bands for their logo ideas as we wanted to use an X to represent the band, however many people gave us feedback saying an X would create to many connotations to the XX and most recently Ed Sheeran's album entitled 'X'. We want to keep to the colour scheme that our target audience has decided which is red, black and white.

The foo fighters are a rock band which use the name colours that we are going to use on our logo and other media products. We like this logo as it is recognisable to the audience and shows the bands initials. The writing use represents an elaborate rock style, which the colours reflecting that. This band logo reflects the Foo Fighters as a rock band and the house style of music. We want to replicate this effectiveness in our own logo and have it look just as professional.  

Marina and the Diamonds take a different response to the conventional band logo by just using the name of their band in a sans serif writing. However since this logo is used thoughout Marina and the Diamonds production this type of writing has become a trademark for their band. We have considered the use of writing as a logo, however we feel the alternative rock genre would be reflected more clearly through a logo. 

We have already analysed the XX in our influence for the X post. However this shaped X is the XXs trade mark logo and makes them easy to distinguish between other bands. For different albums they add a different pattern within the X, each of these patterns reflecting the indie pop music that they create.