Title of the band, TarantisT, was made based on "Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zoroaster- chapter 19- about the Tarantulas". TarantisT means bitten by Tarantula. The bitten, toxic person or TarantisT gets Dance Disease or Tarantism (title of band's first album) and tries to get rid of the poison through by dancing, which the band consider that dance as Head-banging. Poison also, in the band's dictionary, defines as the sufferings coming from the world around.