Silliest metal band logos/names?

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― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 2 June 2003 10:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

for names it's got to be mistigo varggoth darkestra.

― your null fame (yournullfame), Monday, 2 June 2003 10:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

Just flicking through the ads in Terrorizer magazine makes me laugh - all these names like Agarophobic Nosebleed and Cocknoose!

Perhaps this thread could also be devoted to 'most illegible black metal band logo' as well!

― M Carty (mj_c), Monday, 2 June 2003 11:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

Watching a docu last night, I realised what a great heavy metal logo the Al Jazeera logo would make! I mean, think about it! All the Arabic potentialities... all you really need for a good death metal scene is rebellion against a strict and repressive religion... surely Islam would be just as good as Christianity?

― kate, Monday, 2 June 2003 12:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't think the weather is bad enough to justify burning down mosques in the Arabic world. I think it is going to have to snow a lot more in Iran before the death metal truly takes hold.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Monday, 2 June 2003 12:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

I came acorss a norwegian death metal band called endless funeral whcih i thought was absolutely hilarious at the time.

― neil simpson, Monday, 2 June 2003 12:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh yeah, pig destroyer is another funny one, I think

― M Carty (mj_c), Monday, 2 June 2003 13:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yeah, but mistigo varggoth darkestra has the most illegible/awesome logo evar!

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre200/e275/e275097zjgw.jpg

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― original bgm, Monday, 2 June 2003 13:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

gimme a dimmu burger and a cradle of fries!

― tony bleach, Monday, 2 June 2003 13:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

all the death metal band names are so ridiculous, they border-- no, they go well within the realm of-- self-parody.

Ex.
Cannibal Corpse
Entombed
Morbid Angel
Deicide

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Monday, 2 June 2003 17:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.sonic-boom.com/image/killing.joke-1.gif
haha just kidding, don't kill me Alex.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 2 June 2003 17:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think Meshuggah is such an endlessly great name for a band like that.

― Sam J. (samjeff), Monday, 2 June 2003 18:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Metallica" has to be the silliest name. I mean, sheesh.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 2 June 2003 18:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

Go here for all the metal band logos you can cram in your fat craw.

― Nick Mirov (nick), Monday, 2 June 2003 19:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.tumult.net/catalog/weaklogo.gif

― autovac (autovac), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 07:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

similarly

it says 'leviathan' in there somewhere.

― your null fame (yournullfame), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 08:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well, at the risk of being a dork, I vote for my Faustcoven logo:
http://home.online.no/~poholsen/faustcov.jpg

Of course, the REAL logo is a rather typical black metal thing, heh.

Metal, and particularly grindcore, is chockful of ridiculous bandnames of course, but the funniest, to me, are the ones that don't TRY to be ridiculous and goofy (ie not "Agoraphobic Nosebleed" or "Bathtub Shitter" but damn... "The sins of thy beloved", My Dying Bride, and Graveland have all made me laugh out loud at one point or another, though I actually like the latter two bands a great deal.

Then there's Bolt Thrower. Naming yourself after a Warhammer thingy is just WLØGH; but when you write songs like "World eater" I guess you'd be able to get away with any bandname you'd like... Except Metalium.

Oh yeah, and Vomiting Corpses! Fucking hell, they actually seem to be want to be taken as a serious brutal death metal band, haha. Vomiting Corpses!
Well, maybe there was some humor in there, one of the songs DID have slapbass.

Hmm, a metal bandname game would probably be quite easy to make:
Vomiting Corpses, Rotting Corpse, Rotting Christ, Christ Agony, Crucible Of Agony.... uhhh. Crap!

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 09:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hmmm... Suddenly my made-up band name Vigilante Shipbuilders doesn't seem so 'unique'.

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 11:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

my friends brother band was called Unbounded Terror.
and some other friends (fortunately grown up now) had a band called Inertial Mass.

― joan vich (joan vich), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 11:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

Øystein has a point about inadvertent humour creeping into names: see also Type O Negative

― M Carty (mj_c), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 12:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Altaria"
It looks like an advert for some gothic boy band from the year 2035!
Either that or a band that will, in the future, fill Tangerine Dreams Niche the same way Phish "succeeded" the Grateful Dead.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 12:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

three years pass...

if someone can create a great logo for my death metal band PURGATORY it would be much appreciated

― john miuccio (mooch), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

a silly one?

― grady (grady), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.fourteeng.net/Logos/gwar-wp.jpg

― Bunyip (Bunyip), Thursday, 14 September 2006 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link

it doesn't say "purgatory" anywhere on there! fuck!

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Friday, 15 September 2006 01:42 (seventeen years ago) link

STF - Sharon Tate's Foetus - their logo was casper the friendly ghost with a swastika carved in his forehead, charlie manson style... pretty decent mentors/meatmen offensiveness r us riff rock.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 15 September 2006 02:32 (seventeen years ago) link

five years pass...

http://www.absinthechamber.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/waking_the_cadaver_logo.jpg

This one is all time. They've since changed it to be more legible, but this version is so lol.

Oh, it supposedly says Waking the Cadaver in there somewhere. These guys are terrible, btw.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 16:04 (eleven years ago) link

Goatpenis

― Clarke B., Wednesday, 12 September 2012 16:56 (eleven years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/G0pvR.jpg

― Evan, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 23:05 (eleven years ago) link

haha

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 23:30 (eleven years ago) link

one year passes...

Not just an ungoogly name but Nothing have a logo that looks like some sort of Nati0nal Fr0nt symbol too:

http://zumic.zumicentertainme.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/nothing-the-band-dig-premiere-shoegaze-album-cover1.jpg

― eardrum buzz aldrin (NickB), Thursday, 6 March 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link

yeowch

in mitigation they are from a hardcore background which has a tradition of 'fit all the letters of the band's name into a symbol that would look cool drawn on your history jotter' band logos

― imago bantz and the deems context (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 6 March 2014 16:52 (ten years ago) link

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