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Strange bandnames?
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 1:13 pm
by Destrozer
What are the strangest bandnames you can think of? Do you care what the name means? Are there any you can not understand?
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 2:16 pm
by GJ
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"
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 2:36 pm
by great_knuthulhu
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"
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 2:46 pm
by Destrozer
What does Sarissa means?
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 2:51 pm
by BlackStele
Destrozer wrote:What does Sarissa means?
"Sarissa" is a sort of a long, ancient, Greek spear, very agressive weapon though..
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 2:53 pm
by ION BRITTON
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.
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 2:58 pm
by GJ
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.
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 3:00 pm
by tomas
Lord Weird Slough Feg
Brian (Cze)
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 3:07 pm
by Avenger
Pedo
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 3:11 pm
by sagrotan
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"
)
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 4:24 pm
by DaN
I'm thinking of starting a RUN AFTER TO-tribute band. Prolly' gonna call us SIT MEANWHILE OF.
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 4:29 pm
by Piotr Sargnagel
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 4:47 pm
by lunaboy
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.
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 5:07 pm
by snaps666
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 ...
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 5:08 pm
by tomas
'pik' is also Dutch for dick.