Way for the guy in the video to get trolled hardcore. XD

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According to their page on the MA this band has no name, and this solid bar is used instead.
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88/3540358943

Rainbow??

Considering what the band plays/played, that's a great name. Besides, rainbows are awesome.

Oh come the fuck on, that's like the sixth time they've been mentioned in this thread now.

Sounds like a mock/spoof name to me.

I gotta say I agree with this post. Most grind bands fall into this trap (with the exception of Napalm Death, which is a cool name).

I read this thread and had many good laughs, so I decided to contribute.
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Intellectual_Moment/11031
This band has a small recorded output but was very active in the scene, doing shows in several towns. I'm not trash-talking the band, but their name is nothing short of awful:

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Catamenia seems like the sort of name that sounds pretty cool until you actually learn what it means.

whoa,I was happier before knowing this,until the moment I read this Catamenia was just "a scandinavian word whose meaning I don't know,but it sounds cool".

I really have had fun reading this thread,I've laughed a lot with some of the names you've said.I guess that some of that bands with totally absurd names has chosen a deliberately ridiculous name in order to be funny,and in that case they have clearly succeded.That deliverately funny/absurd names are not very common in metal but you can find tons of them in punk,I think that also some grindcore bands choose names trying to sound "brutal,gory,obscene,disgusting,etc." but at the same time "funny,absurd or not very serious" and that's the case of some bands that have been mentioned.

In my case,since I'm not english speaker,some band names seem good to me because they phoneticly sound well,but if I take some time to think about their meaning I find that they're awfull.I also find so ridicoulus that kind of badns "trying to hard to be something" you've mentioned (death metal bands trying to hard to be violent/gory,black metal bands trying to be evil/satanic,doom or gothic metal bands trying to be sad/melancholic,etc.)

Band names that I find kind of ridiculous:
Asesino,is the spanish word for "murderer",too generic.By the way,Slayer,is one of those names that sounds phoneticly well,but if I think about the meaning is kind of bad.
Helloween
Gamma Ray,another case of phoneticly well-ridiculous meaning
Dark Funeral,trying to hard to be evil/dark
Death,too generic
Megadeth,that "deth" instead of "death" is kind of ridiculous,also if "megadeath" was not a military term it would sound like "oooh,men,you're so evil,aren't you?"
Anal Cunt,seems a name made by a kid,an obvious case "trying too hard to be obscene,disgusting" resulting in a name with no sense.
Strapping Young Lad,wtf?
Pig Destroyer,I didn't know that the "pig" was a reference to cops (I could have figured it out,but I guess that I've never taken the time to think about it) until I read it in this thread,but anyway,I can't help thinking about the other kind of pigs whenever I listen this name.
Iron Batasuna,(http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Iron_Batasuna/3540288411)it's a grindcore band,their name is a combination of "Iron Maiden" and "Herri Batasuna" (a polemic Basque nationalist political party,that was ilegalized due to being related with a terrorist group),the name is obviously deliverately funny and absurd,if you live in the basque country and you are familiar with the polemic that exist with that political party you will find this name very funny.I heard that there's also another band called PNV Noise Terror (PNV (another Basque nationalist political party)+Extreme Noise Terror),but I haven't found any recording or information about them so I'm not sure if they really exist.


I didn't konw them until I read this thread,but I found this name really funny,I love it

Asking Alexandria, Of Mice and Men, Memphis Mayfire, Dillinger Escape Plan ... Pretty much every gay band that thinks they're heavy.

I agree one of those bands are STRYCHNIA

To me, that's not generic at all. I love the simplicity of it, that's the kind of name a death metal band SHOULD have. Other examples are Obituary, Grave, Dismember, Autopsy, and Benediction. These are all awesome names, in my opinion. Especially Grave and Obituary.

I like all the names that you've mentioned,but Death doesn't sound good to me,maybe is because as well as being a short and simple name is also the name of the genre they play.I supose that,since there can be considered one of the bands that created death metal,they couldn't bear that in mind when they chose the name,but nowadays "Death" doesn't sound good to me for a name of a death metal band.

I agree. They are the kind of obvious, classic names. It would simply be wrong if there weren't bands by those names.

Destruction is one of my favourite band names of all, and it doesn't get much simpler than that. Perhaps it's a little generic, but I like it.

I can't help but feel that band names such as Death, Destruction, Venom and such should be exempt from being called "generic", mostly due to the fact that they were the ones who came up with the whole "single, dark substantive as a name" thing.

I wonder why Death changed their name from Mantas. Has anyone from the band ever explained it?

Between the Buried and Me. Their name rubs me almost as wrong as their music does... :3

I don´t like when i´m not sure how to pronounce.

Yngwie Malmsteen and Eluveitie comes to mind

Yeah, Chuck did. He fell out with Lee and Rozz, and the band dissolved. He made amends with them both a few weeks later, and they reformed as Death. He didn't actually wanna use Lee and Rozz, but he was still a kid, and couldn't find anyone else.

Liquid Tension Experiment

Ing-vey Jay Mahlm-steen

El-vay-tie

I very much doubt this. It's more likely pronounced like the 'die' in 'epicardiectomy', except with t.

... Ahem.

x} huh huh .. huh huh .. diphthong.

Yeah, that's pretty much the story of my life...

and that's pretty much what happened to the band (they didn't know until a fan told them IIRC) :V

and yet they still keep the name... even when their sound changed drastically.

Did it, really? Wasn't Catamenia always incredibly melodic, cheesy black metal? Sure, it became less and less black over the years, but wasn't the "progression" quite gradual (and expected)?

I have never heard music from the bands I am going to tell you about but their names are just ridiculous.

A cat born in an oven isn't a cake

Hey look lettuce!

Matt from DDR was posting about a demo he got in the mail. The band plays generic stoner rock and they are called EASY BAKE OVEN

What a well researched article.

KISS doesn't stand for anything. The "Knights in Satan's Service" is just one of those bullshit backronyms made up during the Satanic Panic, sort of like the whole "Antichrist Devil's Children" thing for AC/DC.

Yes, that is fair to a point. They've just dropped most of their black metal sound. A shift from melodic black metal to what is borderline power metal is still a big change, though.

http://www.metal-archives.com/band/view/id/21439
I'm sure this could also go in the worst bands thread as well.

I'm not sure anyone knows how to pronounce this. His real name is (was) Yngve Malmsten. I don't quite see how throwing in that w and the double ee makes it any easier for anyone.

"Yngwie Johann Malmsteen (/ˈɪŋveɪ ˈmɑːlmstiːn/ ing-vay mahlm-steen; born Lars Johann Yngve Lannerbäck on 30 June 1963)"

First line of his Wikipedia article. Malmsteen wasn't his but his mother's original last name.

Dude is so pretentious that even his name reeks of an inflated sense of self worth.