Chart for Heavy Metal Band Names

Posted by Robert Birming in Music on January 12, 2009 at 10:10 am


This chart shows how heavy metal band names are related to each other and how you can place them in various categories – like deadly things and badass misspellings.

Link – via kottke.org


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21 comments to "Chart for Heavy Metal Band Names"

  1. Gauldar
    January 12th, 2009 at 10:20 am

    Hmm, Santa was in The Book of Revelations? Hmm, I guess Bill O'Riely was right about the war a on Christmas. Good to know the Tripple Umlaut is still up for grabs.

  2. Gail Pink
    January 12th, 2009 at 10:23 am

    Metal! \m/

  3. mkultra
    January 12th, 2009 at 11:22 am

    Not bad, some good ones in there. Bonus points for including The Cancer Bats, but points deducted for including Crippled Lucifer, which is not a band name but is in fact an album title from Burning Witch.

  4. houndogg
    January 12th, 2009 at 11:36 am

    no ac/dc?

  5. Dixon
    January 12th, 2009 at 12:32 pm

    Dark Angel appears twice, once on the Death/Metaphorical/Dark arm and also on the Religion/Angels arm.

  6. matt
    January 12th, 2009 at 12:53 pm

    mk ulatra - your screenname - from the govt consipiracy, or the late 90s chicago thrash/scream/hardcore band?

  7. Church
    January 12th, 2009 at 1:22 pm

    Andrew WK?

    *googles*

    Huh. Learn something every day.

  8. norehead
    January 12th, 2009 at 2:01 pm

    In the Catagory for Double Umlaut there's Motley Crue but no Husker Du? Thats a huge oversight if you ask me...

  9. Johnny Cat
    January 12th, 2009 at 2:07 pm

    That was a lot of fun. Foreign Sounding/Actually Foreign...LOL.

  10. TeaFizz
    January 12th, 2009 at 3:33 pm

    Cool chart, but a couple of quibbles (okay... three):

    Pantera is not foreign (Arlington, TX)

    Borknagar is listed twice [in the same category]

    Mötley Crüe is missing an 'e'

  11. mkultra
    January 12th, 2009 at 3:47 pm

    @ Matt, the secret CIA drug experiments.
    @ Norehead, This is a chart of Metal band names. Husker Du was great, but NOT metal.

  12. matt
    January 12th, 2009 at 3:52 pm

    thanks, mkultra. and ditto on the Husker Du comment.

  13. Briannana
    January 12th, 2009 at 6:28 pm

    Just as a side-note, my great grandfather was Alfred M. Hubbard, to those in the know.

  14. Nathan Miller
    January 12th, 2009 at 6:33 pm

    @norehead. I liked Husker Du. But more than the band, I loved the board game...

    My friends and I in high school were going to create a Chemistry based metal band called Deathyl Methyl. Not sure where that would fit on here.

  15. SenorMysterioso
    January 12th, 2009 at 6:53 pm

    TeaFizz, I think its means the name is foreign, not the band

  16. gloveshot
    January 12th, 2009 at 9:46 pm

    Where is Lordi? They would fit in multiple classes.

  17. Johnny Cat
    January 13th, 2009 at 12:32 am

    Nathan:

    Deadly Things/Death/Bad Mispellings/Pointless Mispellings would be your band's path.

  18. Evilbeagle
    January 13th, 2009 at 4:28 am

    This is a fun chart. A few things are missing, but I would imagine including everyone would be impossible. I am going to start a band just to include a triple umlaut.

  19. Ajan
    January 13th, 2009 at 5:45 am

    WOW.. it has a pentagon!hehehe!

  20. joes
    January 14th, 2009 at 5:55 am

    I will be forming a band soon and this chart would be of great help.

  21. Metalman
    January 19th, 2009 at 9:07 am

    Where's Limozeen!?

    Seriously though, great chart. I thought Motley Cru was spelled Motley Crue.


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