here's one:
a portmanteau ov satan and oxydation

satanized?



no, it's correct

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once again super thanks for doing these revisions, sadly they always fall at the bottom of the page :/

so here's an updated list with clues:

follows shipwrecks and does not allow dishonour
the riddle combines the band's name with their 2nd album title. am really surprised no one got it, as said album is considered a classic, and the band is fairly well known for providing a replacement band member to a super big band...

extremish gardening with fast dude
the riddle combines the band's name with one of their members' nickname. not fast eddie clarke! c'mon, ppl!

fellowship of cheap beers
change the fellowship into a synonym and it will take you 3 miliseconds to get it, even if you don't know that's where they got their name from...

here's another image riddle... super easy if you're a fan



that's a character from a well-loved children's book series. he eats all the time and gets grease on his school materials. I met the band's mainman in london (not an english band tho) and asked him if thats where he got the name from and he said no. but he smiled a lot. cheeky ba**erd! the books and the band originate from the same country.

one of the greek gods' choice of footwear
oh come on! frodo has hairy feet. which greek god has a special kind of lower limbs? the waterboys wrote a song about him...

jack the ripper had one, but it wasn't made there
little is known about jack, but there's no contesting he carried this one item on his person. once you get the word right (and there's only like 2 options), the band name will come to you if you're even remotely a NWOBHM fan...

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att: Coastliner

Nuclear missiles, skeletons, and really fast solos.

Destruction?

Never heard of them, they sound interesting.

But no I'm not talking about Destruction.

Flotsam and Jetsam, No Place for Disgrace.



Saint Vitus.

(No, this ain't simple! Because you have to know a couple of beer brands that are regarded as "cheap", and you have to realise that words like "fellowship" or "company" aren't part of the band name. )



Not only one song but really a handful. One of my favourite bands, The Waterboys.

Anyway, it's Cloven Hoof.



Tokyo Blade.

...Fatal Violence?

no

Flots, Cloven and Tokyo B are correct.

the band that isn't Saint Vitus is sometimes (mis)labelled doom as well. not for me, though. and not on the archives, either...



you're thinking abt it the wrong way. brands dont matter. its another way to indicate cheap beers stateside. concentrate on the clue. whats another word for fellowship?

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ok, I cheated and used the search function for the only horse name i remember from lotr and i facepalmed



is Fates Warning!



Vektor? Sacral Rage? Agent Steel? Gama Bomb? am I close or somewhere else entirely? hint or clue, pls

Just call me Snaggletooth.

- way to indicate cheap beers stateside: no idea.
- another word for fellowship: well, the synonyms that come to mind don't ring a bell.

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Unholy mum of Grendel and the Sinking Samurai!

My very first association (without knowing anything about cheap beers) when you first posted that riddle was:



But that was just a random association because I thought "BL" => whisky.

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Indeed!



Search engines are absolutely allowed! (At least I hope so. On the forking path to infinite wisdom that led me to the dead end "Saint Vitus" I must have googled a tree dead. )

Re: my riddle No. 10: Come on, you know the solution! If the band name isn't Medieval Torture Device – what could it be? (And no, it can't be Iron Maiden because they didn't release an album in '78, and there's no song about a season on their debut. But Maiden is very, very close!)



Motörhead?

This is probably wrong but oh well. Megadeth?

Here's one of mine:

A person who investigates and determines the cause of death.

Coroner?

Black Label Society is correct, doof... err, I mean, dear friend

Motorhead, Megadeth and Coroner must be correct too...

"a song for all the ladies out there", or I could just say the word of their 2006 album (one word, sums up about everything).

Last Crack?

(I've completely forgotten about them as I couldn't get into their first two albums back then. They were weird but in a weird way.)

Correct.

Opeth is the answer.
The part about the letter is small but is also important (and I have to say that for me it was the easiest part in describing the name).
It was not easy for me to find a way to describe their name and not to be too 'straightforward' (i.e. without mentioning the name of the novel/or its author), but this band is very well-known so I hoped that a fan/a listener of Opeth who read about their name just would immediately recognize the name from the first description and would post the answer.

Dismember

A Scandinavian death metal band whose name happens to be identical to the name of one of the most popular online messaging platforms, used mostly by gamers but not exclusively. One letter in the band's name was changed, so it doesn't really look exactly the same.

Diskord.

no takers?

Very good! Well done.

correct. try their albums again. they're proper good.





there's been a few tries... Devilment? Lucifer Eyes? Lucifuge? give us another hint or the answer...

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answers to my riddles that have not been answered...



spoilered so you can have one more try before you slap your forehead

there's already a few hints in the original riddle if you look closely

Lucifyre?

correct - tho' note that it's spelled with a v - Lvcifyre

O.K., I'll try but only the debut. The thing is: I hated the stylistic changes that took place during the 90s, and Last Crack seemed to fit right in… Q5 are pretty good though, like a heavy rock version of Triumph.

- Soilwork: Yep, that one seems obvious, but I would never have guessed it as I never heard a single note from them.


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Solutions to the three remaining riddles:

03 Eriador's full of [ancient debris]


08 wrote a song about Elrond's council's season's (Bal-)rog


10 A band with ties to Lucas and Tolkien: one of their former members is a Lucas character's brother, and they unintentionally named a song after the king-to-be's love interest in '78.



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Appendix:


Unanswered riddles from the previous page:












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New riddles (Future archaeologists will drop their shovels when they find this post…):


01 Thoudio (but more modern and without me)

02 E.S.J. minus 1

03 A.D.M.I.N. but has to ask beforehand

04 "HW…TPD" is a song by…?

05 Iron Sea (pronounced by the BBC's Acronym Man)

06 "Hi, Vienna", in other words, not synonymous, and pronounced by a person with a texanaccent* in Austria

07 physician who pulls wires and strings and sings about a villa

08 yet another physician but with a meat axe

09 Hags n Lout

10 Rachit Lips React

11 Powerslave

12 turns fly into bee

13 Move on, there is no 13 as it brings ill luck. (No, this isn't a riddle!)

14

HTL
TFH
M
JITF
(A)PT
W
PL
NR
SAD
MM

15 `Tage² (feat. a nominal Claus)

16 2 Sodom outtakes plus 3 bonuses from 2018

17 Fischer minus Stricker plus canned beat

18 √ TON plus 1 (decimals and anything not on record can be disregarded)

19 a whole minus 1/5 was two times the same (in 'now minus nine') (EDIT: It's 1/4, not 1/5! It seems I can't count, sorry. )

20 Today, ∞ minus everything plus Two sings in […]

Bonus riddle:
21 The name of a fictional band I made up five minutes ago. It looks Welsh. It has 69 characters with lots of Ls, Ys, Ws and Ns well-hidden between Ms, and when you pronounce it, it sounds like the short, sharp sound you make when you step on a lego® brick.



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* Is that a word? Why not?

11. Iron Maiden?

14. Metallica (Kill ‘Em All)?

Metallica is spot on!

I think it would be a bit too easy if the answer to "Powerslave" were "Iron Maiden". Clue: Who's the "powerslave" in the lyrics? => solution.

04 = Megadeth (Holy Wars...The Punishment Due)

06 = Helloween?

11 = Seth?

Yeah I figured that would have been too obvious. I'll come back to this one after I think about your hint some more.

As regards 11, the one I had in mind was simply Pharaoh but Seth is of course equally correct because some pharaohs used derivations of "Seth", e.g. Seti / Sethos, as an alias. (And I hope you meant the ruler, not the deity.)



Too late, sorry.

Damn, pharaoh was literally the first word I immediately thought of when you gave your clue. But I guess I am unfamiliar with that band.

Actually : Cannibal Corpse

I'm pretty sure Matti Kärki did use that same or a very similar phrase before launching into "Skin Her Alive"; and the name of their 2006 album does indeed tell everything

edit: shit, I thought their s/t was 2006 instead of 2008. My bad, carry on!

Neurosis, amirite? Too easy bro

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