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.

I only had issues with the artwork tbh



Wait...who? Never heard of it. Will check it out right away

Imagine a DSBM band having a name that insists on suicide, wow.

I agree that expecting DSBM to be anything but stupid is not very reasonable.

Well the cover was all I meant, yeah... my bad. And Vulvagun is really a great band in the heavier PM style, but they just choose a silly name.

Wow, thank god I don't value your opinion on anything.

I didn't knew any of it. Thank you.

Another "mysterious" name https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Baxaxaxa/12037

Being part of a specific subgenre doesn't make the name any less stupid. The fact that DSBM as a subgenre tends to be very serious about all that shit makes it ever worse.

What about Depressed Mode? That one always cracks me up. They are supposed to be a serious band but the parody name doesn't help taking them seriously.

Uhh, okay. That’s not what I meant and you know it, « wow ».

Well you obviously don’t know me irl because I’m a very reasonable guy most of the time.

Bongzilla. Even when I'm high this is a dumb band name.

Satan's Almighty Penis: Really?

I've said this before, but there are literally tons of these "Bong," "Weed," and/or "Dope" named bands out there, and in most cases, you can already tell what the band is going to sound like (typically boring wannabe Electric Wizard/early Sabbath worship) before you even sit down to listen to it. There are some exceptions to this, of course, but it's sort of the same principle when you hear of a band with a name like "Vomited Anal Necter"- you typically don't even need to listen to it to know what it sounds like!

It's weed pun. What's so terrible about it?

I prefer the light-hearted joke names of stoner doom bands over a lot of the very serious and cliché names you find throughout a bunch of other subgenres.

OW MY RETINAS!

worst color scheme EVER.

I actually HAD wondered.

Sometimes a bad band name warns you away from bad music. Which is actually useful!! But probably not what the bands intended!

HEAVY METAL HAMSTERS!!!!

Good song in spite of the title. I wonder if German humor just doesn't translate into English?

Reading the "thank you" section of Cynic's Focus album I noticed they mention a group called Raped Ape.

Turns out they were a pretty competent, skilled thrash band that came out in 1988 with typical thrash metal lyrics. The well of metal-sounding band names certainly hadn't run dry at the time so I gotta wonder what was going on when they came up with that name.
"How 'bout we call ourselves...Raped Ape?"
"Yeah, sounds good...almost rhymes too."

There is this explanation on the bandcamp page:
The name Baxaxaxa was selected by guitarist Unholy Worshipper of Shub before the band’s first rehearsal and refers to a demon he found in a now-lost-and-forgotten book.
(https://nuclearwarnowproductions.bandca ... m/hellfire)

I had never heard of the band Baxaxaxa before, but I decided to search for information about their strange name because it reminded me of the title of this demo - https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/W ... onis/26829 (which also looks very strange, as the style of music of this band).


I think for me it's difficult to give examples that are related to more "serious" bands because sometimes it can be rather subjective.

I don't like the name Godflesh, and when I first saw it, it made me think of either some very preachy and pro-religious/pro-Christian doom metal or some "milder" version of "orthodox"-like black or death metal (because it reminded me of such band names as Rotting Christ, Necros Christos, etc.), - and I'm not really into these kinds of bands/albums.
And reading this explanation didn't help either, if you are atheistic:

It was then that the group was renamed Godflesh. Broadrick explained the new name by saying, "I heard someone once say that music is the voice of God. The word 'God' conjures something immense and inconceivable. The 'flesh' part is what effects you on a physical level. Our music is loud and destructive."

Yes, I've read about them and now I understand how important this artist/band (especially their debut full-length album) is to industrial metal, but the band name itself did not make me want to check out their albums at all.

I also recalled this discussion about the band The Faceless and a way their name was perceived (that their name fits their "derivative" music) - viewtopic.php?f=1&t=52085&p=1254961&hilit=appropriate+name#p1254961
I haven't heard any of this band's albums (not a fan of this subgenre of metal in general) so for me it was rather funny to read it, but for the fans of the band it may look a bit offensive because the name itself is rather OK/neutral in comparison with those strange/weird band names that were mentioned here in this thread, it just seems to be too vague and does not give you any associations with anything.

I always loved the name Godflesh!
And that was 2, almost 3 years before I even knew Rottring Christ existed (which didn't happen until Passage to Arcturo came out)
Anyway, Godflesh as a word had this Hellraiser 1/2 vibe for me. Very eerie

Happy Days. I get it. You're a DSBM band and you want to be ironic. Like Lifelover. But, for the love of fuck, how did you not now that Happy Days is an idiotic 1970's American sit com?

They did know, it’s written on their MA page.

If that's true (I suspect it's not, regardless of what's stated on their MA page) then it makes the name even stupider.

When I found out Catamenia's name basically means "period blood", I couldn't help but laugh a bit...

I do hope they have The Fonz on some artwork

I wonder if whoever holds the rights to the show can sue the band for Trademark infringement?

I'm not a lawyer and this is not legal advice, but I don't think it works like that. If they were making a TV show, then absolutely, but a band is probably too far removed from the medium of a television program. A name that fucking stupid for a band should be illegal, though.

I just remembered the existence of not one, but three bands called Wifebeater and if it wasn't dumb enough, one decided to go beyond and call themselves Satanic Wifebeater! Weirdly, 3 of them are from Germany... Is there something going on in there related to domestic abuse that I just don't know?

By the way, one of them has this fucking gem of an album artwork:

It's mesmerizing how no one maybe thought, "wow, this looks like shit" or anything like that.

That "Wifebeater" album cover looks like some cheap South Park ripoff, and, while I haven't heard their music, I would guess (based on the logo) that it sounds like some kind of cheap "Thrash or Die" (the band) ripoff.

There is some band called "Tiburon" who won an honorable mention in the "Worst logo" contest. I don't know about the logo- I've seen a lot worse, franky, but as a band name- Why would you name your band after a Hyundai model? Or, maybe they named it after the posh, rich- folks town across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. Either way, it isn't really what I would associate with metal.

Because tiburón is the Spanish word for shark

Oh. I didn't realize that; I was actually thinking of forming a band called "Elantra" in response.

On a serious note, I've often wondered whether some of the more ridiculous lyrics out there resulted from a non-native English speaker issue. It seems especially noticeable with bands from Japan for some reason (maybe their language just doesn't translate over very well.
I am not a linguistics expert.)

And I can't remember the band name but I think it was one of those Russian nazi-hitler worship bands, where he had some song where all he did was rip on various black metal musicians and call them fags, kikes, and what not. Nazi lyrics are cringeworthy enough as it is, but this guy (and of course, it's just one guy's solo "Band") was particularly bad even by the abysmally low standards of neo-nazi bands.

^That would be Aryan Terrorism, “Crush The Lies.”

(Fresh in my memory b/c of the poster who wouldn’t watch Breaking Bad because the characters sometimes used the Lord’s name in vain. He was evidently a fan.)

Wow. I guess that falls square into the category of "You can't make this shit up"

And INSTANTLY the theme song is in my head.


"Yours and my Happy Days! HAPPY DAYS!!"

The Handsome Beasts-Beastiality . I know that England is known for its singular sens of humour but come on both the album title and album cover was a shitty idea. Nice try but you are not Venom.

Anyone who doesn't know the band Unmoored (https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Unmoored/6369) should know that they have a couple of really good melodic death metal albums. Their first album is a huge "what were they thinking?" though. It's so far removed from what their other two albums are and I'm reminded of how douchey it was. Think groove tough guy thuggery kind of bullshit. Sounds like shit and the lyrics are Machine Head levels of bad. Speaking of which, Machine Head was made for this thread.

Oh, and Unmoored was Christian Alvestam's band before Scar Symmetry.

https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/U ... rian/17269

Old Man's Child.

I love pretty much most of their material, and I've never had an urge to seek out any merch.

All these band and song names are a nightmare to us, non native speakers. Are they supposed to mean something? Do these names derive from an expression? And old saying? How do I translate this so it makes sense?