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Posted by Kennoth, 22.05.2010 - 00:19
So, I was browsing one day through Last.fm, and I find this underground black metal act called Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult, and I coulnd't help but to wonder how on EARTH do you come up with something so lame and wannabe cvlt. I mean seriously... I don't really care if their music is good (and since I hate black metal, for me probably not).

So, got any similar ones to share? Remember, we're talking about lame, stupid names, not how good or bad their music is.
26.11.2020 - 19:32
Roman Doez
Hallucigenia
Satan's Penguins is quite a funny name
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10.01.2021 - 04:40
sgtrobo

On Thorns I Lay - too long and clunky. Threnos is a better name. They should've switched, and named the album "On Thorns I Lay".
Except...25 years ago
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10.01.2021 - 10:59
nikarg

Written by sgtrobo on 10.01.2021 at 04:40

On Thorns I Lay - too long and clunky. Threnos is a better name. They should've switched, and named the album "On Thorns I Lay".
Except...25 years ago

I saw that there was a post in the "updated topics", I did not remember/know the existence of this thread. Before I clicked, I thought "damn, On Thorns I Lay is the most ridiculously awful I can think of" (especially given the fact that their music is great). And I come here and see that you wrote this.
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10.01.2021 - 11:16
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Written by nikarg on 10.01.2021 at 10:59

Written by sgtrobo on 10.01.2021 at 04:40

On Thorns I Lay - too long and clunky. Threnos is a better name. They should've switched, and named the album "On Thorns I Lay".
Except...25 years ago

I saw that there was a post in the "updated topics", I did not remember/know the existence of this thread. Before I clicked, I thought "damn, On Thorns I Lay is the most ridiculously awful I can think of" (especially given the fact that their music is great). And I come here and see that you wrote this.

Its cool name. No lame att all. Most provokative greek band is RC.
From greece lamest are 100Mods, Bio Cancer,
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10.01.2021 - 11:21
nikarg

Written by Bad English on 10.01.2021 at 11:16

1000Mods

It's actually a clever name. It is a wordplay about the town where the band comes from.
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10.01.2021 - 11:28
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Written by nikarg on 10.01.2021 at 11:21

Written by Bad English on 10.01.2021 at 11:16

1000Mods

It's actually a clever name. It is a wordplay about the town where the band comes from.

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Well you need me greek to get it then
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12.01.2021 - 17:41
JoHn Doe

Written by angel. on 12.01.2021 at 16:57

Not lame but shallow and idiotic: Holocaust
Seriously?! How dare you guys to call your lame heavy metal band that?!


it never bothered me and they are not a lame band at all. Never thought of it as idiotic either.
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13.01.2021 - 18:59
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Written by JoHn Doe on 12.01.2021 at 17:41

Written by angel. on 12.01.2021 at 16:57

Not lame but shallow and idiotic: Holocaust
Seriously?! How dare you guys to call your lame heavy metal band that?!


it never bothered me and they are not a lame band at all. Never thought of it as idiotic either.


She and Johan overact sometimes.
Good band, not best name, but that time, ftw metal, many old bikers put swastika on their pat ges to piss ppl off.
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13.01.2021 - 21:49
nikarg

Holocaust according to the Cambridge dictionary.
If they were called The Holocaust we would have a different discussion.
The band is pretty good, by the way.
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17.01.2021 - 02:56
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
Written by angel. on 17.01.2021 at 01:29

So better to think twice before making such an uneducated choice and giving them thumbs up! They're absolutely shallow and idiotic.

What makes you think it was an uneducated choice? And why should we practice self-censorship when oftentimes the most productive form of overcoming past trauma is to actually engage and process what happened instead of sweeping it under the rug and pretending it doesn't exist.

It's not like they're advocating for another Holocaust or promoting the ideas that led to that event.
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17.01.2021 - 13:33
Vombatus
Potorro
If the term accepts multiple definitions (burnt offering, destruction, etc...), you don't get to decide which applies nor discard other meanings. All are valid.
Not to mention that it was already used before the 40' to describe mass murder (Armenians come to mind...).
And the band doesn't make reference at all to that specific event.
So it is a bit hard to follow the logic behind your argument.
Good band btw.
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17.01.2021 - 16:09
JoHn Doe

Written by angel. on 17.01.2021 at 15:50

The point is that their lyrical themes have nothing to do at all with the Holocaust and consequences, using a word with the former semantic for their commercial band, it's quite trivializing a huge historical event that had the power to even change the semantic of a word. The signifier and signified are changed after the Holocaust, and using it mindlessly for something commercial is quite invalidating the ongoing trauma of millions.


I get your point but I don't think the band ever did what you accuse them of here. I have listened to this band for quite some time and WW2 and The Holocaust never came to my mind or them being disrespectful in any way. And I am a bit of a history buff.
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17.01.2021 - 21:29
Cynic Metalhead
Paisa Vich Nasha
Angel is unnecessarily overreacting on Holocaust.
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17.01.2021 - 21:38
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
Written by angel. on 17.01.2021 at 15:50

The point is that their lyrical themes have nothing to do at all with the Holocaust and consequences, using a word with the former semantic for their commercial band, it's quite trivializing a huge historical event that had the power to even change the semantic of a word. The signifier and signified are changed after the Holocaust, and using it mindlessly for something commercial is quite invalidating the ongoing trauma of millions.

You're making a mountain out of a molehill here. I appreciate that you always seem to be able to take offense on behalf of everyone else in the world but I don't think this is a hill anyone cares enough about to die on.
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17.01.2021 - 23:36
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
Written by angel. on 17.01.2021 at 21:45

Wow that's really bad answer! I see I'm completely in a wrong space! I MEAN I don't even expect much here! But I thought there's a chance to follow a talk a bit more civilized!

So long!

Uncivilized? We're literally having a discussion about lame band names and most of us are just disagreeing with your opinion and stating our reasons why we disagree. If that's considered uncivilized then you're gonna have a bad time on the internet.
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19.01.2021 - 19:32
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Written by Cynic Metalhead on 17.01.2021 at 21:29

Angel is unnecessarily overreacting on Holocaust.

She does it offren, see ns where ns are and never has. She over re acts to '' sensitive'' topic.
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19.01.2021 - 23:18
no one

Not the lamest, but I always thought the name Evilfeast was terribly lame.

Also King Dude it sounds like a terrible american teenage stoner movie from the early 2000s
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19.01.2021 - 23:25
Karlabos
Meat and Potatos
Lol King Dude is terrible
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20.01.2021 - 01:51
Ansercanagicus
endangered bird
It's getting hard to make a day on this site without reading about nazis

Make Me A Donut (djent band). Among bands I like there's Hardcore Anal Hydrogen (experimental hardcore), Savatage (I guess it should be Sabotage?), Shok Paris, and Virgin Steele I never got. What is steele? there's also surely a pun with Virgin Still.
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20.01.2021 - 01:58
Karlabos
Meat and Potatos
Written by Ansercanagicus on 20.01.2021 at 01:51

Hardcore Anal Hydrogen

Oh I totally forgot about that one. I wonder if there is a new album?
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24.01.2021 - 06:37
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
Written by Ansercanagicus on 20.01.2021 at 01:51
Hardcore Anal Hydrogen

Come on now, that's probably the most eloquently metal way of naming your band Fart.
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24.01.2021 - 14:15
Karlabos
Meat and Potatos
Grind and post metal bands need to chill down.
Today I caught myself searching for Child Abuse (the band) in google. I wonder what the fbi agent who follows me thinks of that?
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24.01.2021 - 16:07
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Written by Karlabos on 24.01.2021 at 14:15

Grind and post metal bands need to chill down.
Today I caught myself searching for Child Abuse (the band) in google. I wonder what the fbi agent who follows me thinks of that?

They are busy, but I indeed. If you need pi k up band in s airport or book, ot cam case even wp activist attack. So stupid bame
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24.01.2021 - 18:39
Cynic Metalhead
Paisa Vich Nasha
Written by Karlabos on 24.01.2021 at 14:15

I wonder what the fbi agent who follows me thinks of that?


What do you think of Isis?
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24.01.2021 - 18:48
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
Written by Cynic Metalhead on 24.01.2021 at 18:39
What do you think of Isis?

They're my favorite group of people.

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24.01.2021 - 19:09
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Written by Cynic Metalhead on 24.01.2021 at 18:39

Written by Karlabos on 24.01.2021 at 14:15

I wonder what the fbi agent who follows me thinks of that?


What do you think of Isis?

Band is older as those assholes, so band case sue they to tock their name.
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24.01.2021 - 19:40
Cynic Metalhead
Paisa Vich Nasha
Written by Troy Killjoy on 24.01.2021 at 18:48

Written by Cynic Metalhead on 24.01.2021 at 18:39
What do you think of Isis?

They're my favorite group of people.


Admiration and persistence have always followed them. It has gotten bigger now.
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24.01.2021 - 19:45
Ansercanagicus
endangered bird
Written by Troy Killjoy on 24.01.2021 at 06:37

Come on now, that's probably the most eloquently metal way of naming your band Fart.


could have been "Fart Of Steel", or "Dragonfart"
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24.01.2021 - 19:46
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
Written by Ansercanagicus on 24.01.2021 at 19:45
could have been "Fart Of Steel", or "Dragonfart"

Dragonfart of Steele.

I made that just for you.
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24.01.2021 - 19:53
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
Written by Cynic Metalhead on 24.01.2021 at 19:40
Admiration and persistence have always followed them. It has gotten bigger now.

Fan is just an abbreviation of fanatic.
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