# Band name **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 31, 2013, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name/677528 "2013-12-31T00:53:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name/677528/81 "2014-03-17T23:58:21Z")
Dave Barry has an ever-expanding list of [**Good Names for a Rock Band**](http://buoy.antville.org/stories/399291/). Some might work. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name/677528/82 "2014-03-18T02:49:28Z")
> [@harvey the heavy](#): > > yes, but do the logo in arial, and see if anyone notices. ÄRIÄL BLÄCK You could just name bands after different fonts. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name/677528/83 "2014-03-18T05:19:55Z")
Damp Handshake ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name/677528/84 "2014-03-18T05:41:35Z")
Verdana ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name/677528/85 "2014-03-18T09:28:29Z")
The Trebuchet Monster Slayers ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name/677528/86 "2014-03-18T13:50:46Z")
The Chixie Dicks (alternate spelling The Chicksie Dicks, or if you’re THAT kind of heavy metal group - Chicks Eat Dicks) ---
**Author:** ![Melchior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Melchior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melchior)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name/677528/87 "2014-03-18T14:05:12Z")
here ya go: Leperz!; Exotic Trawlers; Langford, Laughton, Lewis, Langdon, Lauren and Larsen; Meth Heads; The Thick Gels; Speedy Angels with Slow Sheep; Sky King’s Niece Penny; Pixie Pizza; Savage Salt Fairies; Arthropods in Pain; Heinrich Köselitz and Peter Gast; Panic-inducing Anthropomorphic Entities; Posthumous Pussy; The Naughty Nutrients; The Larvae (before they became The Butterflies); Moth Temple; Ignatius Salad; The Delicious Popes; The Sour Cardinals; Unconfirmed Bachelors; If You Order Now; Hostility Soup; No Threat to Land; Dirty Uncle; Mermaid Sluts; Jet Fuel Formula; Circumstances Beyond Our Control; Bombay Purse Snatchers; Upsidasium Wrinkle; Five Guys Named Dick; Stupefaction in Arthropods; Otiose Paradigm; Stumbling Yeast; Marvel Tragics; and Concise Oxford, The New Design Exceptions, Incest Parade, The Sneerleaders, Litter Box Triplets on Acid, The Milkmaids, The Cubits, Froth Cycle, Neverland’s Queer, The Vacuum Children, Prolonged Internment, Paste, The Lazy Snowblowers, The New Jowls, Two Cows Named Pete, Max and the Unstable Colloids, Social Confinement, The Dead Actuarials, The Nick o’ Teens, The Vision Test, The Heimlich Maneuver, Osmium and the Redheads, The Former Anglicans, Shoeleather and the Strings, The Type “A” Personalities, The Ostrich Alignment, The Angles Saxons & Jutes (before they became the Frisians), The Obscure References, Storm Kittie Beachhead III, The Organ Donor Cards (formerly known as the Transplant Surgeons), and The Two-Handed Backhands, the Dental Impressionists ---
**Author:** ![Blaster\_Master](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@Blaster\_Master](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blaster_Master)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name/677528/88 "2014-03-18T14:32:48Z")
> [@Vagabond](#): > > In the bands I have been in/formed/started the name comes close to last. > First you find the members > then you pick/write the songs > then you learn to play them as a band > then you gig. I think Vagabond’s post is the best one in here about naming a band. I could come up with a ton of awesome names for bands, some that I’d love to use for my own projects, but that’s focusing on the wrong part. First, you say Heavy Metal/Deathcore band, that’s a HUGE swath of music that has vastly different sounds and influences which, of course, means wildly different names. You could come up with the best Deathcore name ever and then you form a band and it just doesn’t fit the style you all develop. Or maybe you all get together thinking you’ll do a particular style and start writing stuff and find out that, despite what your influences are, you want to do something else. Some of my favorite bands are heavily influenced by one genre or subgenre and play in something different. Famously, Mikael Akerfeldt of Opeth is a huge 70s prog fan and claims to hardly listen to death metal, or any form of metal for that matter, yet Opeth is one of the biggest names in the underground metal scene. Or speaking personally for myself, despite my favorite genres largely revolving around metal and rock, overwhelmingly my own compositions are much closer to classical, so picking a name based on my influences wouldn’t make sense. And, particularly considering how generally consistent metal is between the band’s sound and their name and logo, I think it’s important to match the tone of your music with the name. If I see a straight forward name in bold font and get death metal, black metal, grindcore or whatever, it wouldn’t only confuse me but it would irritate people who expected something else and would-be fans of your music may not even give it a listen, ditto if you have a gruesome or dark name with a symmetric or illegible logo, and then you deliver some old school heavy metal, power metal, or progressive metal. ---
**Author:** ![theR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@theR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theR)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name/677528/89 "2014-03-18T14:39:12Z")
I know this thread is a few months old, but… > **[Band Name Maker](https://www.bandnamemaker.com/)** > > Band name generator to help you come up with a band name. ---
**Author:** ![Melchior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Melchior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melchior)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name/677528/90 "2014-03-18T20:36:39Z")
> [@Blaster\_Master](#): > > I think Vagabond’s post is the best one in here about naming a band. I could come up with a ton of awesome names for bands, some that I’d love to use for my own projects, but that’s focusing on the wrong part. First, you say Heavy Metal/Deathcore band, that’s a HUGE swath of music that has vastly different sounds and influences which, of course, means wildly different names. You could come up with the best Deathcore name ever and then you form a band and it just doesn’t fit the style you all develop. > > Or maybe you all get together thinking you’ll do a particular style and start writing stuff and find out that, despite what your influences are, you want to do something else. Some of my favorite bands are heavily influenced by one genre or subgenre and play in something different. Famously, Mikael Akerfeldt of Opeth is a huge 70s prog fan and claims to hardly listen to death metal, or any form of metal for that matter, yet Opeth is one of the biggest names in the underground metal scene. Or speaking personally for myself, despite my favorite genres largely revolving around metal and rock, overwhelmingly my own compositions are much closer to classical, so picking a name based on my influences wouldn’t make sense. > > And, particularly considering how generally consistent metal is between the band’s sound and their name and logo, I think it’s important to match the tone of your music with the name. If I see a straight forward name in bold font and get death metal, black metal, grindcore or whatever, it wouldn’t only confuse me but it would irritate people who expected something else and would-be fans of your music may not even give it a listen, ditto if you have a gruesome or dark name with a symmetric or illegible logo, and then you deliver some old school heavy metal, power metal, or progressive metal. Do you like any of my names? ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name/677528/91 "2014-03-18T20:47:51Z")
Name the band Baculum. Have the drummer play with a couple of them. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name/677528/92 "2014-03-18T22:43:06Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > Dick Disturbance > > Penis Problem > > Cock-Caphany > > kind of like Pussy Riot, you see… I heard of a band called Priapism. That is, in short (no pun intended) an erection that lasts more than 4 hours. If you’re looking for toxic heavy metals, you could call your band Arsenic or Lead. Jeremy from the comic strip “Zits” likes a band called Gingivitis. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name/677528.md?page=4)