CRAAAAP, another taken band name

[Mr No Username]

Alright so after playing by myself without a band for years and getting to my skill level I all of a sudden thought of a unique band name that I was surprised and thought no one had taken at first. The name was Noise. Weird enough, our vocalist thought of it before I met him so it even felt like fate to choose the name.

I looked it up countless times and found no one, not even in the 70s, 80s, nor 90s took the name. Although later I recently found a band from the UK named it from the 90s. Different country so I thought it'd be alright since they put Noise UK in their name.

However I just found another band named Noi!se and they are alive and active, on Facebook, put out records, have a label, and they are a street punk band. I want to use the name because it describes us exceptionally well as our sound ranges from bad ass riffs, hard rock, punk, metal, even got a hard rock into reggae instrumental going, and whatever else we can come up with and I got a lot of other guitar pieces in the vault.

They are from Tacoma WA and we're from Savannah GA pretty much just starting out. We should probably change the name but I really love the name. Just upset someone had actually thought of it after doing countless searches founding nothing and now to come to find with a ! in their name =/. Haven't even found their domain website but if they got a label, they got to be trademarked. www.noise.com isn't even registered

 

[shawshank72]

Contact them.
Ask them if they are trademarked and see the proof.
Explain your story, you might find they could care less.

 

[dtripoli]

Naming a band and hoping it's unique is akin to choosing a login name only to find it's already taken.
Unless you are nationally famous or attempting to copyright the name, it doesn't matter if some band in Pudunk, Ohio
already has a band with the same name.

 

[tzohn]

Noize
Noiz
Noyz

 

[40Hz]

There's an old joke that goes:

Headline news: October 21, 2026

With the registration of:

www.5j4jhx40ognyjfhwbzcizhvg2bevtmq0t66quwehbvx7qr00rsu0sz8zaa6evicrl0nul5ahn4us017fd8p4k2a0ophc3ada13gxb32fp3bqe9nwu9cr6cycsw8530yr9wuxgr9oc4jpk3sptnily632orepcc4yicyn0zpa57p2swej221i4vs78zi2tbmk0k9kgdema1r0y2o7dthgp7gg5pbzfbshzjb9i1w53in0desek28fyvvrch1wh8gr.com

The last possible combination of UTF-8 characters for a dot com name has been registered for use on the Internet today.

 

[Oddly]

I am actually amazed the name Noise wasn't taken before your two bands ... but a quick google search also finds The Noise (based in NY apparently) and another in Romania.
I'd go for a different name if you truly have big ambitions for your band.

 

[Grumry]

Call it "F*** Noise" and send them all your social media and recordings.

 

[Mr No Username]

Someone said even Nirvana had a lawsuit in anorther forum. Great name and surprised they had a lawsuit.

Nirvana (British band) - Wikipedia

Almost all names are going to be taken nowadays :/

 

[Stumbo]

Da Noise
The Noyse
Noiz Boyz
The Nooz
Noizee

 

[RoadRanger]

Dunno how you looked it up but UR wrong:

Domain Name: NOISE.COM
Registry Domain ID: 2759_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Registrar URL: Invalid Link Removed
Updated Date: 2016-10-06T02:43:41Z
Creation Date: 1995-10-26T04:00:00Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

 

[SoCal80s]

If they have a label that actually distributes in your area, or they tour regularly and come to your area, you might have a problem. Same if you intend to get on a big label or tour in their area. Otherwise, it should be ok to use it.

 

[electracoyote]

Dirty Noise

 

[gln1955]

Naming a band and hoping it's unique is akin to choosing a login name only to find it's already taken.
Unless you are nationally famous or attempting to copyright the name, it doesn't matter if some band in Pudunk, Ohio
already has a band with the same name.

As a member of a band in Pudunk, Ohio, I take extreme umbrage at that comment. As a matter of fact, "Extreme Umbrage" is our name.

 

[dtripoli]

As a member of a band in Pudunk, Ohio, I take extreme umbrage at that comment. As a matter of fact, "Extreme Umbrage" is our name.

My apologies to all Pudunkians, some of my best friends are Pudunks.
Please note, "Extreme Umbrage" is already our band name. Cease and desist any further use of said name.
Note, for a small fee we can license you for unlimited use of "Extreme Umbrage".

 

[Jloch86]

How about "Led Zeppelin"?

 

[tzohn]

Nah, Plasma Anvil sounds better.

 

[EdO.]

My apologies to all Pudunkians, some of my best friends are Pudunks.

For the record, it's "POdunk", not "PUdunk". Coming from Podunk I'm allowed to say that, right?

 

[MultiScaleMale]

It's all about first use in commerce. They win. I'd find another name.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Contact them.
Ask them if they are trademarked and see the proof.
Explain your story, you might find they could care less.

It's couldn't care less.

 

[Hahaha]

Just spell it without the "i". That's probably not taken.

I've been in at least three bands that had names that were in use by multiple bands across the world. A lawyer once told me that trademarks are valid for the state that they are registered in, therefore someone in a different state can use the same business name. That was many years ago, so I'm not sure it's still true with the advent of the Internet.