Best Metal Bandnames

Recommendations, discussions, questions & debates regarding the godly Metal of olde...
Post Reply
humus
Posts: 1510
Joined: Sun Jul 30, 2006 4:17 pm
Location: Flanders
Contact:
Contact humus

Post by humus »

I've always liked bandnames like these best:

Chronic death
Massacra noise
Morbid death
Chemical breath
Death squad
Repugnant

[Indeed, mostly Belgian underground bands, just to get some other names in this topic]
Top
User avatar
Korgüll
Posts: 1973
Joined: Thu Nov 16, 2006 1:48 pm
Location: Melbourne, Australia

Post by Korgüll »

My faves:
VOIVOD (of course)
EXUMER
BEHERIT
ARMOURED ANGEL
CRYPTIC SLAUGHTER
WEHRMACHT
LIVING DEATH
SATAN
CRUMBSUCKERS
TRIUMPH
ORDER FROM CHAOS
EXPULSER
MUTILATOR
SARCOFAGO
etc... (just about all Sth American bands have great names!)
Top
otakon
Posts: 153
Joined: Sat Sep 30, 2006 4:12 am
Location: Melbourne

Post by otakon »

Korgüll wrote:bout all Sth American bands have great names!)
hehe yeah
Top
User avatar
Noisenik
Posts: 2777
Joined: Wed Jul 26, 2006 4:15 pm

Post by Noisenik »

Brainbiter wrote: Necrodeath


I agree it sound very slick but the meaning is completely absent. Or at least it imposes severe conceptual problems. Dead Death: after H.P.Lovecraft I know even death can die, but still ...
I am ... the One you warned me of
Top
User avatar
OmenOfSteel
Posts: 577
Joined: Thu Nov 16, 2006 4:03 pm
Location: fucking non white worthless left wing dick sucking scum bag

Post by OmenOfSteel »

BLIND GUARDIAN!!!

Skyclad
Brocas Helm
Metal Church
Omen
Liege Lord


Also I like everything with STEEL in it, hehe
Agent Steel
Steel Prophet
Virgin Steele
Steel Angel
Damascus Steel
Bishop Steel
Cold Steel
Medieval Steel
Savage Steel
Emerald Steel
Crying Steel
Faith of Steel
Steel Reign
Steel Vengeance
etc...
We praise the blood that metal brings
Top
User avatar
ION BRITTON
Posts: 6645
Joined: Tue Jul 25, 2006 3:07 pm

Post by ION BRITTON »

I think we have already mentioned 95% of our favourite bands. :lol:
Good against Evil, Evil sure to win

"It really didn't matter if they liked it or not, i was going to give it to them straight down their throats" -John Stewart
Top
User avatar
The Sentinel
Posts: 3527
Joined: Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:32 pm
Location: Netherlands

Post by The Sentinel »

Noisenik wrote:Dead Death: after H.P.Lovecraft I know even death can die
Another one inspired by H.P. Lovercraft: Dream Death
Long Live The Loud !!!
Top
User avatar
Helm
Posts: 1465
Joined: Tue Jun 26, 2007 2:28 pm
Location: Beyond the Realms of Arcana!

Post by Helm »

Dream Death is an amazing name.

If there's no band named Dreamwitch, somebody start it!
Image
Top
User avatar
convent guilt
Posts: 111
Joined: Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:31 am
Contact:
Contact convent guilt

Post by convent guilt »

I know it's been mentioned a couple of times already, but the best band name is:

JUDAS PRIEST

Honourable mentions to MERCYFUL FATE, MANILLA ROAD, DESOLATION ANGELS, CELTIC FROST...

I love one-word band names but strongly appreciate the skill involved in coming up with a great, meaningful band name of 2 words or more..
Top
User avatar
Helm
Posts: 1465
Joined: Tue Jun 26, 2007 2:28 pm
Location: Beyond the Realms of Arcana!

Post by Helm »

The best and most archetypal metal names have a good subversion in them (something good turned into something bad) so Judas Priest and Black Sabbath are some of the best of this type.

Single-word names remind me of single-mindedness in approach. 'Slayer' says 'we shall thrash and nothing less' to me. This is both good and bad.

two-word names that do not subvert the meaning but amplify it are very metal 'Liege Lord', 'Dark Tyrant', 'Lordian Guard' but they also mean to say 'we are interested in ONE thing only, we are not about variety'.

Though I guess in the largely secular heavy metal context, 'Lordian Guard' is a very subversive name. 'Satanic Guard' would not be.
Image
Top
User avatar
The Erlking
Posts: 2027
Joined: Wed Apr 25, 2007 6:46 am
Location: Land of the living dead

Post by The Erlking »

I must say I totally agree with Helm's first post. I don't know why but I find most names with a "witch" in them cool. Salem's Wytch and Witchfynde are both ultra-cool names. Here is some other great names

Abigail
Angel Witch
Cloven Hoof
Dawnwatcher
Heretic
Crowley
Dark Harvest (Great!)
Gorgon
Mephistopheles
Manilla Road
Damzell
Death SS
Jurassic Jade
Hocculta
Hell
Salem's Law
Ritual
Bellzlleb
Y Diawled
Black Widow
Marquis De Sade
Coven
Sabbat
Judas Priest
Black Sabbath
Tabbasa
Bathory
Pagan Altar
Witchfinder General
Silver Mountain
Zadkiel
"The very Hemoglobin of a persons blood is based on IRON! The same Iron in the earth that you turn into STEEL, that is in everyone." -Michael Coffey, Stone Vengeance
Top
User avatar
The Sentinel
Posts: 3527
Joined: Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:32 pm
Location: Netherlands

Post by The Sentinel »

I find "Second Hell" awesome, like one hell is not enough

Also, Machetazo is a killer bandname, although I don't know what it means
Long Live The Loud !!!
Top
User avatar
The Knell
Posts: 4308
Joined: Mon Feb 12, 2007 5:58 pm

Post by The Knell »

SEMPITERNAL DEATHREIGN

dont know what it fucking means haha, but it sounds great
Top
User avatar
Mr Nuke
Posts: 394
Joined: Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:24 pm
Location: South-Eastern France
Contact:
Contact Mr Nuke

Post by Mr Nuke »

I don't know if someone already gave this name, but STEEL ANGEL is for sure to be counted in this list IMO!

And I'll add THY ANTICHRIST, a semi-obscure colombian band, which has the best satanic name ever IMO!
Gott ist tot.
Top
User avatar
mordred
Posts: 1792
Joined: Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:44 pm
Location: Sweden

Post by mordred »

P-A-G-A-N A-LT-A-R
Chroming Rose “Pressure” LP found! :D
Top
Post Reply

Return to “Into Battle”