band/artist names that don't sound like metal bands, but are

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budgie

charlie h, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 02:29 (fifteen years ago)

Anathema

u r no man, take the balls (San Te), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 02:31 (fifteen years ago)

Cinderella

EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 02:33 (fifteen years ago)

danzig

Zeno, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 02:33 (fifteen years ago)

Manatees

EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 02:34 (fifteen years ago)

Moss
Ocean
Conifer

EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 02:34 (fifteen years ago)

hypocrisy

i mean it makes sense on some level or another, but i've always found the name to be a strange match for their sound.

charlie h, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 02:35 (fifteen years ago)

Rainbow

EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 02:35 (fifteen years ago)

kiss

Zeno, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 02:35 (fifteen years ago)

Subway to Sally

EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 02:36 (fifteen years ago)

soundgarden

Zeno, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 02:38 (fifteen years ago)

Big Business

he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 02:38 (fifteen years ago)

Metallica!

ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 06:20 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.passionforperfume.com/graphics/Hanne/hd7.jpg

ti, I drink with jam and lewis (Paul in Santa Cruz), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 06:31 (fifteen years ago)

Destroyer.

Granted there must be a heap of'metal' bands with this name, but I'm nominating the Canadian/ New Pornographers non metal one

Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 10:03 (fifteen years ago)

He heh. Wrong thread.Tit.

Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 10:04 (fifteen years ago)

And it had already been nominated on other thread.

Execute me.

Strapping Young Lad should be a Half Man Half Biscuit type combo

Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 10:12 (fifteen years ago)

Weakling

village idiot (dog latin), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 11:16 (fifteen years ago)

Frantic Bleep

village idiot (dog latin), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 11:16 (fifteen years ago)

Mama's Boys

Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 11:53 (fifteen years ago)

Pelican

Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 12:40 (fifteen years ago)

Harvey Milk

Brad C., Tuesday, 28 September 2010 12:41 (fifteen years ago)

Celtic Frost

jaymc, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 13:11 (fifteen years ago)

Witchfinder General

lady gagaku (corey), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 13:39 (fifteen years ago)

Uhhhhh, confused here, that doesn't sound like name of a metal band?

Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 13:40 (fifteen years ago)

I dunno it makes me think of an early 70s Slade-style rock band.

lady gagaku (corey), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 13:45 (fifteen years ago)

CF and WG both sound like metal band names to me

u r no man, take the balls (San Te), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 13:51 (fifteen years ago)

Sleep

Zeppelin to Howlin Wolf: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 13:53 (fifteen years ago)

Thin Lizzy

My glowbo's ain't half itchy (NickB), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 13:54 (fifteen years ago)

AC/DC

... bit gay isn't it?

Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 13:55 (fifteen years ago)

Celtic Frost sounds metal until you learn that Tom G Warrior & co pronounce it Seltic Frost.

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 14:17 (fifteen years ago)

the "frost" bit always sounded metal to me. not so sure about the "celtic" bit. still a great name.

charlie h, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 18:09 (fifteen years ago)

so they're basketball fans?

u r no man, take the balls (San Te), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 18:27 (fifteen years ago)

Nadja

Duke, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 19:05 (fifteen years ago)

Sore Throat

Sounds like a parody metal band. Why not "Stubbed Toe"?

Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 00:51 (fifteen years ago)

Boris

Randolph Carter (Viceroy), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 00:55 (fifteen years ago)

Earth

Randolph Carter (Viceroy), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 00:55 (fifteen years ago)

old man's child

charlie h, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 00:58 (fifteen years ago)

Big Toe

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:02 (fifteen years ago)

Thought Industry

officer i didn't know it was a penguin (San Te), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:09 (fifteen years ago)

manic street preachers

charlie h, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:14 (fifteen years ago)

I've always thought Sonata Arctica and Mannheim Steamroller should trade names. Each one's name suggests the other one's music.

Born In A Test Tube, Raised In A Cage (unperson), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:30 (fifteen years ago)

Alice Cooper

He actually tells a funny story about how he chose it because he thought it would make people think they were going to see a meek little folk singer.

rammer jammer jan hammer (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:34 (fifteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataract_%28band%29

StanM, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 17:22 (fifteen years ago)

Weekend Nachos

jonathan - stl, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 18:27 (fifteen years ago)

Pelican
(awaits taxonomic quibbling)

patapon pataphysics (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 18:49 (fifteen years ago)

Opeth. At times.

Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 19:16 (fifteen years ago)

xpost: no need for taxonomic quibbling, only a mention that someone already posted Pelican yesterday :-)

StanM, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 19:40 (fifteen years ago)

Opeth is fully a metal band name.

rhythm fixated member (chap), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 21:27 (fifteen years ago)

Ah OK. Sorry. I didn't see the "names" in the header. I agree.

Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 22:57 (fifteen years ago)

how about skepticism? maybe it vaguely suits funeral doom on some remote level, but i can't help but think it's better suited to the john lydon realm of thinking.

charlie h, Saturday, 9 October 2010 08:53 (fifteen years ago)

I could see how Celtic Frost could be in the colorway of a button henley in the J Crew catalog.

Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 9 October 2010 08:58 (fifteen years ago)

Meshuggah always sounded so cuddly to me.

the who cares (okamax), Saturday, 9 October 2010 10:11 (fifteen years ago)

there's this other band esoteric that a lot of ILMer's (including myself) are big fans of. i remember listening to them for the first time a few years back and being somehow surprised at how brutally heavy they were. i guess i was expecting something a little more introspective from the name.

charlie h, Saturday, 9 October 2010 10:34 (fifteen years ago)

was it Sunn O))) ? I always thought their name sounded sunny and then there's that cyclops smiley at the end...

StanM, Saturday, 9 October 2010 15:53 (fifteen years ago)

'no you don't understand, esoteric is the name of his band'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_%28band%29

journey to the end of nyt (nakhchivan), Saturday, 9 October 2010 18:30 (fifteen years ago)

Esoteric rule so much

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 9 October 2010 18:31 (fifteen years ago)

It's a pity some people never look past the first song on their last album though, it's all great.

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 9 October 2010 18:32 (fifteen years ago)

oops, xxpost

StanM, Saturday, 9 October 2010 18:49 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, "Order of Destiny" is massive.

It would have been better with burger sauce (aldo), Saturday, 9 October 2010 19:27 (fifteen years ago)

Deep Purple

sonofstan, Saturday, 9 October 2010 19:31 (fifteen years ago)


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