When it comes to the names of Goth & Metal bands or their albums and songs there is only a very small number of words involved, and surely they must have tried every permutation of them by now. The brilliant thing is that they are now impossible to parody.
There is no way you could invent any metal-related name that for comedic effect without finding out that someone else has used it for real, or something even worse.
Just a few I found tonight:
A band called Deeds of Flesh have an album called Reduced to Ashes with tracks like Infested Beneath The Earth, Avowed Depraved and Disinterred Archaic Heap. Their Mark of the Legion album has the tracks Eternity of Feasting and Brawling and Spewing the Profligacy.
A band called Disgorge have an album called Consume the Forsaken with a track called Indulging Dismemberment of a Mutilating Breed whilethe Deathwitch album Dawn of Armageddon has tracks like Jehova Shall Bleed, Diabolical Tormentor and Hellfuck Sodomy. Actually, I couldn't resist downloading that last one and it does exactly what it says on the tin.
I think there must be a computer program somewhere which generates all these song titles for them.
Back in the late 80s I wrote a C program that randomly generated Castle Donington Monsters of Rock line-ups. It was a time when all metal bands looked the same and had names like:
Metalhammer
Powerdeath
Thrashslave
Deathkillers
Megahammer
Powerthrash
Thrashdeath
.. etc.
And, randomly in this great long list, it would insert
Bros
.. well, I was on work experience and bored one afternoon.
The daddy of all deathcore bands is Carcass. Their first album was called “Necrotism: Descanting the Insalubrious”, and the tracks included “Corporal Jigsore Quandry” and “Lavaging Expectorate of Lysergide Composition”
Oh, and the resurgence of ‘battle metal’ will bring all these kinds of bands back
Love it!!
Carcass! They also had songs called “Vomited Anal Tract” and “Cadaveric Incubator of Endoparasites”.
Then there was the band Cadaver, from Norway, with tracks called “Cannibalistic Dissection”.
I wonder what they would have sounded like in the acoustic unplugged format.
Why am I not in the least surprised that Rob wrote a program to generate metal band names?
What tickles me is that all those band names and song titles sound like the random word strings you get in spam e-mails and comments.
Written in C. That’s beautiful. Not just pointless, but fast too
My D&D character generator was written in Sinclair Basic (no, I don’t have the source code).
Oh my – I really did marry the master-geek!