BAND NAMES

[IBNZ_RG]

Holy s**t!!!!!! how hard is to come up with am original band name??? I come up with a cool one but theres 8 other bands with the same name!! any ideas where to come up with one??? ive tried the dictionary and song lyrics for one, but every time i find one theres a billion bands under the same name.

[rvai]

my band got it's name from a porcupine tree song haha, but we tried like 76 or so names

[IBNZ_RG]

whats your bands name??

[mi2tom]

Mine is Inersia X and we play progressive metal, I got another band which I've quit and the band's name is PARDON ME and is playing alternative rock. Try names that go hand in hand with your genre. You don't want to put a band's name such as for example Meeting Lisa and plays deathmetal, but it's really up to you

[Timbaline]

Lol, my friends and I are planning to make a band for our school. We were making a bunch of joke names. My favorite was Ramses III God of Metal, you can't beat that name LOL. (We were somehow planning to get millions of dollars and invest it into a giant, gold, head-banging Ramses statue XD).

[taracatac]

I always wanted to name a band "Penelope's bathtub suicide razor".

[kotornut]

Read a lot. You can get names from literary reference. That's what I do. A good vocabulary helps a lot too.

[THEE HAMMER]

try the bang
band name generator

a ouija board

or think of random words

best of luck

[Timbaline]

Also, if all else fails, take a random word and add "x" to the end of it. I don't know why, but the "x" makes it sound much better. For example: Hi X, Shred X, Fed. Ex., Water X, Bottle X, Phone X, Orchestra X, Walker X, Jesus X... I can go on doing this all day, Paper X, Slash X, Chemical X, Kinetic X, Potential X, French X, Spanish X, Arabic X, Hebrew X, Runner X (I think you get my point from now). Another potential band name is PaciFIST ( You should draw a Fist on the drum set). The name is kind of an oxymoron, pacifist means peace, but since we're emphasizing the "FIST" part, it makes it seem violent-ish.

[Pursuit]

Originally Posted by mi2tom

You don't want to put a band's name such as for example Meeting Lisa and plays deathmetal...

Why not? It would be a good fame-making thing lol.

[shredmaster]

why not? i think "meeting lisa" is a great name for any type of band.

we sat around and thought of some names. just thought of 2 words, put them together, and came up with some great ones accidentally. one of them, i thought was so cool, i'm going to record a cd under it, i liked that joke name so much. like a fun side project...why not.

[C.Thep]

Originally Posted by Pursuit

Why not? It would be a good fame-making thing lol.

apparently worked for Devil wears prada and Job for a Cowboy...though they aren't really death metal.

If it's a metal band, I find the best band names are one word three or four syllables. No 'the' infront, no plural forms: Metallica, Behemoth, Suffocation, Nevermore, Origin, Gorgoroth, Kreator, Mortician, Deicide etc etc...

my old band was called Tyranogen.

[Ranger-X]

Captchas. Youtube has some good ones.

I'm serious

[Mike239]

Originally Posted by mi2tom

Mine is Inersia X and we play progressive metal, I got another band which I've quit and the band's name is PARDON ME and is playing alternative rock. Try names that go hand in hand with your genre. You don't want to put a band's name such as for example Meeting Lisa and plays deathmetal, but it's really up to you

When our band thought of a name we didn't want to "lock" ourselves into a genre, we wanted to give ourselves some flexibility in terms of genre, but different things work for different people.

For our band it was a choice between Handle Bar (bass player thought of that) or Equalizer (thought of by me )...... we went with Equalizer

To get inspiration try looking at whats around you and see if you can think of any names that way

[callen3615]

Its hard. You dont think "Chickenfoot" was their first choice...do ya?