Best/Worst Band Name

[rjturtle9]

Originally Posted by Sinfulsot

it's not about how they sound. it's strictly about the name.

yeah i know but i think the only one that i don't like in that list is royalhunt.

[ChildrenofSodom]

Originally Posted by Maiden33

Chris Caffery's Faces has never existed. Chris has a solo band under his own name with an album called Faces, but his band is not "Chris Caffery's Faces".

I could have sworn it was. My apology.

[TonyD]

Chris Caffery speaks english well enough to know that if he did name his band that, it would have to be "Chris Caffery's Face" which would be hillarious.

[Maiden33]

Originally Posted by TonyD

Chris Caffery speaks english well enough to know that if he did name his band that, it would have to be "Chris Caffery's Face" which would be hillarious.

Actually Chris Caffery's Faces would make perfect sense. In the context of the song and album name, "life has many faces", basically saying that every person has many sides to their personality which show at different times throughout life. Thus one person has multiple faces, and thus Faces is a theme album about the many different sides of Chris's personality.

[Sinfulsot]

Originally Posted by Div

well it works both ways for me

fair enough.

[zgodt]

Originally Posted by neilpeartjr.

But very few of them make one cringe.

If they don't make you cringe it's probably just that you've been desensitized by overexposure to how asinine metal band names are.


Earlier in this thread someone mentioned Prostitute Disfigurement. I saw that band name earlier this year and, far from finding it "brutal", thought it was the lamest, most ridiculous thing I'd ever heard. Ahaha! Not even "whorecutter" or something, but "Prostitute Disfigurement", all big fantsy words like they were intellectuals or something!

[Sinfulsot]

Originally Posted by zgodt

If they don't make you cringe it's probably just that you've been desensitized by overexposure to how asinine metal band names are.


Earlier in this thread someone mentioned Prostitute Disfigurement. I saw that band name earlier this year and, far from finding it "brutal", thought it was the lamest, most ridiculous thing I'd ever heard. Ahaha! Not even "whorecutter" or something, but "Prostitute Disfigurement", all big fantsy words like they were intellectuals or something!

as to worst name, that's the sort of reaction i wanted to hear about. as to best, not necessarily the most brutal, but certainly the biggest shock reaction that one would get from any non-metal friend or acquaintance. hence my choice of Rotting Christ for best name per the reaction i get from the non-metal ppl i know.

when i saw Pretty Little Flower on the maryland death fest bill, i thought it had a shot at worst name; however, for a death metal band, it's something i wouldn't expect. but i would compare this sort of thing to a tiny dog named The Terror or Crusher or something like that.

[zgodt]

Originally Posted by Sinfulsot

as to worst name, that's the sort of reaction i wanted to hear about. as to best, not necessarily the most brutal, but certainly the biggest shock reaction that one would get from any non-metal friend or acquaintance. hence my choice of Rotting Christ for best name per the reaction i get from the non-metal ppl i know.

when i saw Pretty Little Flower on the maryland death fest bill, i thought it had a shot at worst name; however, for a death metal band, it's something i wouldn't expect. but i would compare this sort of thing to a tiny dog named The Terror or Crusher or something like that.

Pretty Little Flower is far from great, but it's so much better than all these lame "look-how-eeeevil-we-are" band names. I would throw Rotting Christ in that mix too -- it's not shocking, it's predictable. (I mean, really, it's basically an overblown variation on "Black Sabbath.")

[mankvill]

Rumpelstiltskin Grinder

wtf.

Seriously.

[Firewind]

Originally Posted by mankvill

Rumpelstiltskin Grinder

wtf.

Seriously.

Haha, I love that one...