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DeadKid
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 09, 2023 10:18 pm 
 
Helloween's Hamsters is referring to the hamster wheel idiom about being trapped in a cage doing an endless task, and they're criticising their previous label who wanted complete control of them.

To 'spit on' something means to degrade or disrespect it. In this case it looks like "Don't Spit on My Mind" is basically saying don't treat me like I'm stupid and take advantage of me.

'Go ape' means to go crazy. The colour pink could be associated with feeling like weirdos/outsiders in heavy metal, or insanity given people are put in pink jail cells (sometimes padded) in the hope they'll calm down. This one truly is a WTF title, but it seems the pink bubbles could represent a band collectively losing its sanity: https://www.eonmusic.co.uk/michael-kisk ... -2021.html
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The record has this title because that’s how we felt. When Kai left the band, the whole balance was gone. As a band, we were just not functioning really anymore.
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RainyTheBusinessPerson
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 10, 2023 7:58 pm 
 
Wow, that's actually really interesting to learn, thanks for this information, I would never have imagined the deeper meaning behind these.
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Opus
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 10, 2023 8:34 pm 
 
DeadKid wrote:
'Go ape' means to go crazy. The colour pink could be associated with feeling like weirdos/outsiders in heavy metal, or insanity given people are put in pink jail cells (sometimes padded) in the hope they'll calm down. This one truly is a WTF title, but it seems the pink bubbles could represent a band collectively losing its sanity: https://www.eonmusic.co.uk/michael-kisk ... -2021.html

I vaguely remember an old interview where someone in the band said they just wanted the silliest title they could come up with. That's why it doesn't mean anything.
The cover is rather silly and nonsensical too.
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Nocturnal_Evil
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 10, 2023 9:12 pm 
 
Vehemence has some cool sounding melodeath and a good band name, but holy fuck those lyrics and song titles are beyond terrible.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 10, 2023 9:53 pm 
 
I just found a nice Norwegian hard rock band named Stargazer which is lame enough, but at least it's better than their previous name, F.R.I.E.N.D.

Another weird and quite useless band name is Harem Scarem, Great band, but that's a name that's designed to drive listeners away. The singer has said he could write a book on how to sabotage your career, and a good first step is having an incomprehensible name.
Anyone wanna guess what the name comes from?

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The Bugs Bunny episode Hare-Um Scare-Um
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Metal Shark
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 11, 2023 12:02 am 
 
Opus wrote:
Another weird and quite useless band name is Harem Scarem, Great band, but that's a name that's designed to drive listeners away. The singer has said he could write a book on how to sabotage your career, and a good first step is having an incomprehensible name.
Anyone wanna guess what the name comes from?

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The Bugs Bunny episode Hare-Um Scare-Um


Probably a good idea to NOT name yer band after a cartoon character or episode! :lol:
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DeadKid
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 11, 2023 2:26 am 
 
Given the other meaning of 'harem', the band name makes me think of a sexy witch or I Dream of Jeannie or something, so it could be worse.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 11, 2023 8:51 am 
 
Listening to the excellent second Iron Fate album this morning - such a great intricate piece of work, but man did they pick the most forgettable name ever.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 13, 2023 9:24 pm 
 
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Listening to the excellent second Iron Fate album this morning - such a great intricate piece of work, but man did they pick the most forgettable name ever.


and what kind of FATE would an IRON Fate even BE? :???:
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 13, 2023 9:52 pm 
 
A really, really strong fate. But not as strong as a Steel Fate.
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King_of_Arnor
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 17, 2023 10:41 am 
 
Poverty's No Crime is already an unusual name on its own, but even more so for a prog metal band.
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Forever Underground
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 17, 2023 1:17 pm 
 
I'm surprised the name Destroyer 666 has not been mentioned, one of the most lame band names I've ever heard and I know quite a few people who avoided them for many years because they thought they would sound just as bad as their name.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 18, 2023 10:41 pm 
 
Opus wrote:
A really, really strong fate. But not as strong as a Steel Fate.


But Titanium Fate would be strongest!
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Coastliner
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 1:24 am 
 
Opus wrote:
DeadKid wrote:
'Go ape' means to go crazy. The colour pink could be associated with feeling like weirdos/outsiders in heavy metal, or insanity given people are put in pink jail cells (sometimes padded) in the hope they'll calm down. This one truly is a WTF title, but it seems the pink bubbles could represent a band collectively losing its sanity: https://www.eonmusic.co.uk/michael-kisk ... -2021.html

I vaguely remember an old interview where someone in the band said they just wanted the silliest title they could come up with. That's why it doesn't mean anything.


That's not necessarily a contradiction. One explanation is a more or less obvious explanation of the words, the other one seems to say: "It's just a weird joke, there's no deeper meaning or message, i.e. we don't intend to portray ourselves as losing our marbles or anything like that."
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Ivan Drago
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 20, 2023 4:56 am 
 
Hatriot

I know it's supposed to be pronounced like patriot with a H, which is still a shitty name, but everytime I see it I think Hat Riot
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Xymosys
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 20, 2023 6:34 am 
 
Farmer Boys

I mean...really?! FFS! The music is...well, OK, but that name!
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Auselesspileofflesh
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 22, 2023 2:47 am 
 
A lot of the violent misogynist lyrics that wass common in brutal death/goregrind/slam/deathcore, they're just hard to read through without grimacing. Glad it's not really accepted nowadays especially as a lot more women are involved with that scene (Unfathomable Ruination, Stabbing etc)
I love Devourment, Waking the Cadaver, Misericordiam etc but those lyrics? No thanks.
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RainyTheBusinessPerson
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 24, 2023 4:35 pm 
 
Less of an extreme example, but I never understood why Deep Purple decided to release an album titled Bananas, there's nothing offensive in it or whatever, I just don't... get it, even though I know that isn't the case, I feel like there's supposed to be a deeper meaning to this that I missed. It's one of the cases of just reading too much into an album cover, sometimes they just pick something and that's about it.
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Judas Maiden
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 24, 2023 5:33 pm 
 
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Vio-lence dealt with serious topics on their first two albums so it was very surprising that they included the back to back salvo of "Gutterslut" and "Dicks of Death" on the Torture Tactics EP. It was probably funny for its time (1991) but even though I'm not a woke kid, I still find the lyrics cringe-y reading it now:

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I need a gutterslut oh so bad
The kind of slut that's dirty and bad
I'm gonna fuck her till she pees
I'm gonna make this bitch bleed

Fuck her in the ass good and hard
After I've chased her through the yard
I don't use vaseline 'cause I like to
Fuck dirty and mean

Slut! Slut!

Strip your clothes off with my eyes
Ram my pecker right up inside
The bitch starts whimpering to me
In the morning will you respect me?

Awakened rudely in my bed
The bitch just slapped me upside the head
I see the front door's open wide
So I kick this fucking bitch right outside

Lines for whores!

I've had you too many times before
Your cunthole's begin to widen more
I'll have to tie a board to my ass
Or lose my life in your unforgiving crack

Slut! Slut!

Slut! Slut! Slut! Slut! Slut!
Slut! Slut! Slut! Slut! Slut!
Slut! Slut! Slut! Slut! Slut!
Slut! Slut! Slut! Slut! Slut!

Lines for whores!


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My dick's so big I have to wrap it round my leg
And if you piss me off I'll jack off in your face
I got loads of jizz... you can suck me all night
You can swallow my children alright (aiight?! aiight?!)

Coz we've got the dicks of death
We've got the dicks of death (suck it whore)
We've got the dicks of death
12 inches of dangling doom, ough!

Don't care if they're skinny don't care if they're all lard
I'm gonna fuck... juicy tits and I'll fuck 'em real hard
... anal intruder
And if my dick gets stuck we'll just call Roto Rooter

I've got the dicks of death
I've got the dicks of death
We've got the dicks of death
12 inches of dangling doom!

We've got the dicks of death (yeah whore)
We've got the dicks of death
We've got the dicks of death
12 inches of dangling doom!

We've got the dicks of death (east coast!)
We've got the dicks of death (west coast!)
We've got the dicks of death (east coast!)
(East coast... west coast)

Lines for whores!


Those songs were just recorded as outtakes for laughs, and not really likely meant for a proper album, so it was included on the Torture Tactics EP, which included one song that was intended to be on Oppressing the Masses, but was deleted, apart from the Japanese version of the album. Plus, there's one live track, and the two tracks you referenced.

Had the Torture Tactics EP not been released, I think they likely would have just been B-sides.


Being outtakes doesn't diminish the fact that the lyrics was immature and uncharacteristic for a band that was known for serious topics. Yes, they were outtakes but the band still released it for the world to hear. And sure, it's for laughs but it's just very childish.
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Gemini 7 Rising
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 25, 2023 1:29 am 
 
Xymosys wrote:
Farmer Boys

I mean...really?! FFS! The music is...well, OK, but that name!


That's a good one I've never heard of but, yeah, they're here on the archives. I guess it stands out, in a way, when you discover they're a metal band (Groove/Gothic Metal/Rock, it says on their page) and they apparently sing about Life, Love, Death and... Farms. Interesting. I'm intrigued in a way, might have to find them on YouTube and give a listen.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 25, 2023 1:59 pm 
 
There are a lot of bands with odd lyrical choices, Perilaxe Occlusion and Dauþuz are two that have been mentioned before that focus on atypical themes for their genres (3D modelling/rendering techniques and mining respectively).
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 25, 2023 10:53 pm 
 
Ivan Drago wrote:
Hatriot

I know it's supposed to be pronounced like patriot with a H, which is still a shitty name, but everytime I see it I think Hat Riot



:lol: :lol:


"Hat Riot! I Wanna Riot! I Wanna Riot with My Hat!"
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 26, 2023 10:42 am 
 
Metal Shark wrote:
Ivan Drago wrote:
Hatriot

I know it's supposed to be pronounced like patriot with a H, which is still a shitty name, but everytime I see it I think Hat Riot



:lol: :lol:


"Hat Riot! I Wanna Riot! I Wanna Riot with My Hat!"


This is exactly the same thing I think every time I see an article about this band.
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CreepingDeath16
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 26, 2023 10:50 am 
 
Metal Shark wrote:
Ivan Drago wrote:
Hatriot

I know it's supposed to be pronounced like patriot with a H, which is still a shitty name, but everytime I see it I think Hat Riot


:lol: :lol:

"Hat Riot! I Wanna Riot! I Wanna Riot with My Hat!"

This reminds me of the Gorgoroth vocalist Hat. Sure, it's 'hate' in Norwegian, but did he really not know its meaning in English? Also: Free Hat!
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 26, 2023 3:11 pm 
 
All of the Epitaph album by Maniac Butcher, why are the titles so long lol
This video clip is also the most hilarious thing I've ever seen in my life
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 26, 2023 4:03 pm 
 
DenisMDM wrote:
All of the Epitaph album by Maniac Butcher, why are the titles so long lol
This video clip is also the most hilarious thing I've ever seen in my life

That's simultaneously ridiculous and awesome! "Pussy God Records" is certainly a name for a label.
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