Best Metal Bandnames
Best Metal Bandnames
To paraphrase Aaron from My Dying Bride "...and we also had figured out this awesome name, so we had to make good music to go with it!"
What are the band names you felt instantly attracted to, and which bands play as good music as their name, and which fall short?
I was always strongly attracted to anything-witch, Angelwitch, Stormwitch, Witchfynde, Witchfinder General, so on. There aren't many metal bands with witch in the name that don't absolutely rule!
Candlemass also. Morbid Angel is an awesome name. Strike Master (whom I haven't heard) just HAVE to be awesome with a name like that. Nocturnus! Paradise Lost!
What are the band names you felt instantly attracted to, and which bands play as good music as their name, and which fall short?
I was always strongly attracted to anything-witch, Angelwitch, Stormwitch, Witchfynde, Witchfinder General, so on. There aren't many metal bands with witch in the name that don't absolutely rule!
Candlemass also. Morbid Angel is an awesome name. Strike Master (whom I haven't heard) just HAVE to be awesome with a name like that. Nocturnus! Paradise Lost!
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Some will be repeated:
Black Sabbath
Blue Oyster Cult
Rush
VoiVod
Morbid Angel
Witchfinder General
Judas Priest
Iron Maiden
Holy Terror
Celtic Frost
Sacred Reich
Therion
Diamond Head
Savage Thrust
Usurper
At The Gates
Entombed
Brocas Helm
Sonic Violence
Global Genocide Forget Heaven (more indus but a lot of MH went for them)
Nuclear Assault
Rampage
Carnage
Possessed
Cirith Ungol
Coroner
Pestilence
Asphyx
Kreator
Venom
Sodom
Tankard (sounds awesome, trully great semiotically, but what it means)
Bathory
Necronomicon
Obituary
Sepultura
Acid Reign
Fates Warning
Psychotic Waltz
Chemical Breath
Spiral Sea
and so on (but not necessary for too long, because a lot of moniquers is actually doubled in different combinations)
Funny, at the beginning of Metal activities, I searched more for stuff of bands with cool band-names than bands that played cool music. Sometimes the discrepancy between the cool bandname and the music they produce was such I went catatonic.
Black Sabbath
Blue Oyster Cult
Rush
VoiVod
Morbid Angel
Witchfinder General
Judas Priest
Iron Maiden
Holy Terror
Celtic Frost
Sacred Reich
Therion
Diamond Head
Savage Thrust
Usurper
At The Gates
Entombed
Brocas Helm
Sonic Violence
Global Genocide Forget Heaven (more indus but a lot of MH went for them)
Nuclear Assault
Rampage
Carnage
Possessed
Cirith Ungol
Coroner
Pestilence
Asphyx
Kreator
Venom
Sodom
Tankard (sounds awesome, trully great semiotically, but what it means)
Bathory
Necronomicon
Obituary
Sepultura
Acid Reign
Fates Warning
Psychotic Waltz
Chemical Breath
Spiral Sea
and so on (but not necessary for too long, because a lot of moniquers is actually doubled in different combinations)
Funny, at the beginning of Metal activities, I searched more for stuff of bands with cool band-names than bands that played cool music. Sometimes the discrepancy between the cool bandname and the music they produce was such I went catatonic.
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Amorphis
Agent Steele
Atheist
Blue Oyster Cult
Candlemass
Carnivore
Celtic Frost [my favorite]
Depressive Age
Hammers of Misfortune
Hellhammer
Mercyful Fate
Morbid Angel
My Dying Bride
Napalm Death [indeed]
Necrodeath
Nihilist [both bands]
Pentagram
Psychotic Waltz
Reverend Bizzare
Sacrilege
Skyclad
Slauter Xstroyes
Solitude Aeternus
Thorns
Virgin Steele
Witchfinder General
Agent Steele
Atheist
Blue Oyster Cult
Candlemass
Carnivore
Celtic Frost [my favorite]
Depressive Age
Hammers of Misfortune
Hellhammer
Mercyful Fate
Morbid Angel
My Dying Bride
Napalm Death [indeed]
Necrodeath
Nihilist [both bands]
Pentagram
Psychotic Waltz
Reverend Bizzare
Sacrilege
Skyclad
Slauter Xstroyes
Solitude Aeternus
Thorns
Virgin Steele
Witchfinder General
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You know which band name first came into my head when reading the OP?
DARK TYRANT.
Utterly obscure Swedish demo act, but I just love the way it sounds really silly the first few seconds you hear it, and then is slowly sinks into your subconscience and you realize it's probably the darkest, most sinister and METAL bandname you'll ever hear.
DARK TYRANT.
Utterly obscure Swedish demo act, but I just love the way it sounds really silly the first few seconds you hear it, and then is slowly sinks into your subconscience and you realize it's probably the darkest, most sinister and METAL bandname you'll ever hear.
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DESOLATION ANGELS
EXTREME NOISE TERROR
RIPPING CORPSE
GRAVEN IMAGE
SLAUTER XSTROYES
Enthroned
CARCASS
MANILLA ROAD
VOIVOD
LORDS OF THE CRIMSON ALLIANCE
Ostrogoth
Coven
Atheist
Hammers of Misfortune
The Lord Weird Slough Feg
Black Sabbath
Blue Oyster Cult
Celtic Frost
Therion
Diamond Head
Usurper
Brocas Helm
Cirith Ungol
Coroner
Fates Warning
Psychotic Waltz
Hellhammer (probably the most metal band name ever)
Mercyful Fate
DARK TYRANT
SOVEREIGN STEEL
I co-sign all of the above and also deposit:
MOTORHEAD
SLAUGHTER LORD
LORDS OF THE STONE
WRATHBLADE
DOOMSWORD
edit: and LIEGE fuckin' LORD while you're at it. How much more metal can it get? Not only a liege, but also a lord!
edit2: also also CLOVEN HOOF. Such satanic grace! W...wait,
INFERNAL MAJESTY
EXTREME NOISE TERROR
RIPPING CORPSE
GRAVEN IMAGE
SLAUTER XSTROYES
Enthroned
CARCASS
MANILLA ROAD
VOIVOD
LORDS OF THE CRIMSON ALLIANCE
Ostrogoth
Coven
Atheist
Hammers of Misfortune
The Lord Weird Slough Feg
Black Sabbath
Blue Oyster Cult
Celtic Frost
Therion
Diamond Head
Usurper
Brocas Helm
Cirith Ungol
Coroner
Fates Warning
Psychotic Waltz
Hellhammer (probably the most metal band name ever)
Mercyful Fate
DARK TYRANT
SOVEREIGN STEEL
I co-sign all of the above and also deposit:
MOTORHEAD
SLAUGHTER LORD
LORDS OF THE STONE
WRATHBLADE
DOOMSWORD
edit: and LIEGE fuckin' LORD while you're at it. How much more metal can it get? Not only a liege, but also a lord!
edit2: also also CLOVEN HOOF. Such satanic grace! W...wait,
INFERNAL MAJESTY
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Another great one: SONICK PLAGUE
Edit:
Edit:
Great name indeed, but as i have already said in a previous thread, average music, unfortunatelyDARK TYRANT.
Utterly obscure Swedish demo act, but I just love the way it sounds really silly the first few seconds you hear it, and then is slowly sinks into your subconscience and you realize it's probably the darkest, most sinister and METAL bandname you'll ever hear.
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