Strange bandnames?

Destrozer · Post by **Destrozer** » Mon May 05, 2008 1:13 pm

What are the strangest bandnames you can think of? Do you care what the name means? Are there any you can not understand?

GJ · Post by GJ » Mon May 05, 2008 2:16 pm

From a swedish point of view two obvious choices would be:
Tröjan (The Sweatshirt)
Tredegar (Three-doughs)

also:

Sprut (Squirt)

Sorry, just couldn't help it.

Maybe this deserves to be a thread on it's own. "Bandnames that means something else in another language"

great_knuthulhu · Post by **great_knuthulhu** » Mon May 05, 2008 2:36 pm

Some Norwegian Black Metal bands have the silliest names, like "Kvist" (meaning "Twig") or "Styggmyr" (meaning, well, I can't translate, but it sounds like an old place name).

"Tröjan" is a classic in Swedish, but how about "Kiss"?

Battleroar is kind of funny seeing as "Roar" is a common name in Norwegian. I'm going to call my band "BattleKnut"

Destrozer · Post by **Destrozer** » Mon May 05, 2008 2:46 pm

What does Sarissa means?

BlackStele · Post by **BlackStele** » Mon May 05, 2008 2:51 pm

Destrozer wrote:What does Sarissa means?

"Sarissa" is a sort of a long, ancient, Greek spear, very agressive weapon though..

ION BRITTON · Post by **ION BRITTON** » Mon May 05, 2008 2:53 pm

Destrozer wrote:What does Sarissa means?

It's a kind of weapon (similar to a pike) used by the ancient Macedonian phalanx...

Edit: Oops! Sorry, didn't see the previous answer.

GJ · Post by GJ » Mon May 05, 2008 2:58 pm

great_knuthulhu wrote:how about "Kiss"?

That one was so obvious I totally forgot about it - even though my 6 year old daughter found the name hillarious when I was indoctrinating

her with some light metal (Killer/War Machine) just one week ago.

tomas · Post by **tomas** » Mon May 05, 2008 3:00 pm

Lord Weird Slough Feg
Brian (Cze)

Avenger · Post by **Avenger** » Mon May 05, 2008 3:07 pm

sagrotan · Post by **sagrotan** » Mon May 05, 2008 3:11 pm

maybe an old joke, but from German point of view, VIXEN is killer, phonetically spoken.. (for those who need lessons in special German vocabulary, "wichsen" means "to jack off"

)

Post by **DaN** » Mon May 05, 2008 4:24 pm

I'm thinking of starting a RUN AFTER TO-tribute band. Prolly' gonna call us SIT MEANWHILE OF.

Piotr Sargnagel · Post by **Piotr Sargnagel** » Mon May 05, 2008 4:29 pm

lunaboy · Post by **lunaboy** » Mon May 05, 2008 4:47 pm

VILKATES(Germany) sounds funny in Lithuanian.In prime translation its like WOLFCAT.

Vilkas-Wolf
Kate-Cat

Also as far as I know austrian KOROVA is kind of realy fun name.In russian this word means The Cow.

snaps666 · Post by **snaps666** » Mon May 05, 2008 5:07 pm

Helsefyr ...

In danish that's like fitness-dude ...

And every band name with HAT , like Svart Hat ..

Bornholm , the danish island.. Not very black metal.

Pik from Germany... Danish word for dick.

And this album title: http://www.metal-archives.com/release.php?id=155363

In danish that's Lady Dick ...

tomas · Post by **tomas** » Mon May 05, 2008 5:08 pm

'pik' is also Dutch for dick.