A few friends and myself have decided to start a metal band. =) Woohoo lol.. Heres a list of band names I thought of and I used some song titles to get some names too.. Tell me what you guys like most and which one we should use. Thanks - Justin

Lively Wasteland
Brightened Night
Elegy
Confined Sight
Abstract Reign
Hard to Swallow
Anthem of Doubt
Immortal Calling
Fugue
All Hope is Gone
Violent Saint
Numbered Days
Lifeless Life
To the Sons of Man
Element of One
As the Palaces Burn
Sobriety Uprising
Elect the Dead
Metabolic
Diluted
Start a War
Roulette
Torn Asunder
Break the Sky
Suffocating Sight
Tread the Floods
Ember to Inferno
Tomb of Doom
Bomb Shelter
Abracadaver

What subgenre? oh, and half of those are already taken by semi-famous bands. Or half of them are songs by famous/popular/mainstream bands.

All hope is gone and elect the dead... that wouldn't go well with the slipknot band or Serj, and the rest sound a bit "Naf" to be honest. In fact, none of those suit metal in my opinion.

Well I was playing Rock Band 2 the other day and when you pick a band name it gives you a random name to start off with. I got names like Material Five and Fatal Hill. I don't think those names really make any sense nor do they mean anything, but I guess they sound kind of cool.

Blatantly Subliminal
Ravings of a Lunatic

Both really great names in my opinion.

Well we dont really declare it a subgenre, we just do good ole metal like how As I Lay Dying used to and how Lamb of God does

What kind of metal are you playing?

Out of those, Elect the Dead were my favorite.

xitel:
Blatantly Subliminal
Ravings of a Lunatic

Both really great names in my opinion.

I like that one.

Slipknot1Justin:
Tomb of Doom

Tomb of Doom in a room with a broom,
Let me resume this fume wearing my costume,
Now I presume that with your loom,
You will groom that Tomb of Doom?

Sorry, I was having fun. Now have your friends agreed to all of the items on this list?

I have always gone for really odd and strange names, like my RB2 band is "Yalapalooza Pops".

Chicken Munchers

How about "The continuing musical adventures of Sir Winston Finley"
No ?

Do you have any names that don't fall into the category of "generic metal band". Why not choose a name more upbeat and not just depressive?

I think you should pick a band name that sounds cool but doesn't mean anything, like Dir en Grey.

Slipknot1Justin:
Well we dont really declare it a subgenre, we just do good ole metal like how As I Lay Dying used to and how Lamb of God does

As I Lay Dying is subgenre'd as 'hardcore metal'. Or so many people I know seem to think. However, I'd suggest trying for something original man, cause well...most of the stuff you listed is not creative at all. My old band just renamed themselves Divinity In Death after their move to 'hardcore'

Voigt Kampff

or

Black Howling

Fugue is my favorite... but I would recommend using....

THE FUZZY LUMPKINS!!!! (I don't know why but I felt the need to say that)

But honestly go for a name off the beaten path. Make people think twice when they hear the band name.

Livin' In Dysentry (LOD....Lord of Destruction... see what I did there)

Crime of Cholera

I dunno just random stuff. I would be more likely to listen to a band with a weird name but maybe that's just me.

right, using a range of 3 words:
Lively Wasteland - maybe
Brightened Night - maybe
Elegy - maybe
Confined Sight - no
Abstract Reign - maybe
Hard to Swallow - no
Anthem of Doubt - maybe
Immortal Calling - yes
Fugue - no
All Hope is Gone - yes
Violent Saint - no
Numbered Days - yes
Lifeless Life - no
To the Sons of Man - maybe
Element of One - yes
As the Palaces Burn - yes
Sobriety Uprising - no
Elect the Dead - maybe
Metabolic - no
Diluted - maybe
Start a War - no
Roulette - yes
Torn Asunder - yes
Break the Sky - yes
Suffocating Sight - yes
Tread the Floods - yes
Ember to Inferno - no
Tomb of Doom - noooo
Bomb Shelter - no
Abracadaver - no

Dont use a name thats a song/album title, thats just cheap and unoriginal.

Slipknot1Justin:
A few friends and myself have decided to start a metal band. =) Woohoo lol.. Heres a list of band names I thought of and I used some song titles to get some names too.. Tell me what you guys like most and which one we should use. Thanks - Justin

Lively Wasteland
Brightened Night
Elegy
Confined Sight
Abstract Reign
Hard to Swallow
Anthem of Doubt
Immortal Calling
Fugue
All Hope is Gone
Violent Saint
Numbered Days
Lifeless Life
To the Sons of Man
Element of One
As the Palaces Burn
Sobriety Uprising
Elect the Dead
Metabolic
Diluted
Start a War
Roulette
Torn Asunder
Break the Sky
Suffocating Sight
Tread the Floods
Ember to Inferno
Tomb of Doom
Bomb Shelter
Abracadaver

Time to put my blunt hat on.

They are all terrible names. I mean godawful, foul creations.
This is why the Metal genre is full of unoriginal idiots nowadays, because of the horrific unoriginality.

If your planning on going serious (difficult depending on talent) then google a name before you use it and do a myspace search as well; for example as stated above elect the dead is an albumn from serj tankian (lead singer of system of a down), break the sky is already a band, ember to inferno is a trivium albumn, tomb of doom is a copy right board game and those are just the top of my head.

If your just doing it for fun disregard that previous paragraph and call it whatever you like.

I like lively wasteland.

Also, 7 Car Pile Up would be a good name for a band.

The Bengals

That's depressing enough, right?

Serious names: Banshee, Bakunawa (Phillipine god of the underworld, usually depicted as a sea serpent). Thats all I got.

Jack Spratt and the Deep-Sea Divers.

Use it.

Decoy Doctorpus:
Gollum and the horse whisperer.

in this vein, name your band No It's My Precious.

Go with "The Lumberjacks!" ok I was more joking than anything there.
How about the Knights of Rock!
The one ring!
Thor and the Destroyers!

How about Pig Rectum?

I dunno
don't do something stereotypically metal dude
try something ridiculously uncharacteristic
like the fuzzy pink bunnies
or something random like that

A suggestion-A name I wanted to give to a band I made but I doubt I will ever make one- call the band 'Deadlight' or 'Deadlights' Its from Stephen Kings It. The Deadlights are another realm beyond ours that the monster from the book was created in.

My friend and I (who are the least metal people ever) decided if we ever start a metal band it'll be called Asphyxiation Catastrophe.

The band would have 7 vocalists. One bassist (his bass would only have one string) and a guy behind four Bass drums all with double pedal.

MA7743W:
How about "The continuing musical adventures of Sir Winston Finley"
No ?

I vote for that.

Hookman:
A suggestion-A name I wanted to give to a band I made but I doubt I will ever make one- call the band 'Deadlight' or 'Deadlights' Its from Stephen Kings It. The Deadlights are another realm beyond ours that the monster from the book was created in.

I think that would make a great name for a metal band.
As mentioned above, most of the names are already bands/albums/songs. In my opinion, you should try and go for some originality. Something that wouldn't normally make you think it was a metal band, maybe...

how about "State of Anarchy"

How about "The Generic Metal Band" or "The Couldn't-Think-Of-A-Name Band"? Seems appropriate.

I would have suggested "The Harlequins" after the psychopathic group of the same name from "The Traveller" series of books alternatively if you can find any lovecraftian type phrases that arn't trademarked I suggest looking into them. How hardcore a metal group are you going for? Singing or screaming? Makes a difference in terms of possible names.