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Comment by topaz0 14 hours ago

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_umlaut

The writer presumably knows that umlauts and other non-ascii characters are functional in many languages. "rock döts" is poking fun at the trend in a certain tranche of anglophone rock/metal to use them in a purely aesthetic way in band names etc.