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Original band name?

#22
Personally, I'm a big fan of [Singer's Name] and the [Something Somethings].

Or just [Singer's Name] Band.

If you can get over your egos, the well will never run dry with this naming technique.

My last band was called Tomio. That was our Japanese-American lead singer's birth name. Going this route was cool, easy, and there were no duplicates.

Good luck!
 
#26
Smart-ass-ed-ness aside....

To the OP: you've got to come up with something on your own, man!
It's lame going to the internets and having someone name your band for you. You guys want to be a band, so do what bands do: struggle, disagree, start all over and do it better.

Although, I will say that Diarrhea Van Frank is pretty awesome.
I would choose Diarrhea Von Frank, however... ;)
 
#27
P-oddz said:
Smart-ass-ed-ness aside....

To the OP: you've got to come up with something on your own, man!
It's lame going to the internets and having someone name your band for you. You guys want to be a band, so do what bands do: struggle, disagree, start all over and do it better.

Although, I will say that Diarrhea Van Frank is pretty awesome.
I would choose Diarrhea Von Frank, however... ;)
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I'd spell it Diarrhea Von Franc, though, just for extra classiness. Actually I wouldn't want anything I was associated with to include diarrhea, so personally I'd skip that name. I think Drastic Shutup and the Intense Anywhere is kinda not bad. Maybe change Shutup to another word.
 
#29
I was in a metal band called "Anal Seepage..." Really, you can't do much worse than that, so throw random words together until something sticks. Hey, that's good: "Something Sticks..."

Jungle Rot and the hairless taco
Aioli
Rouille

Just don't use a name that starts with "the," they always suck.
 
#32
For the love of God, nothing that starts with "The". (I typed this before I saw the posts above saying the same thing. )

Think of a name that blends a modern and classic concept since that's what you play. Something like the Modern Fossils or something like that. :)
 
#37
mellowinman said:
Not Creative
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How creative.

Here's what has worked for some bands I was involved with in the past. Put down the guitars. Get together and have a cookout. Drink some stuff. Come up with a play on words based off of something that one of you is drinking. One of the reasons my TB name is Two Fingers (other than my tone coming from my two plucking fingers) is that I used to play in a band by that name, which got its name from the tequila of the same name we were drinking during the discussion over possible band names. If I were to use that same idea again, I would slightly change something about the name of the drink.
 
#39
EnviroMetal said:
Late Night Taco Truck
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That one's pretty funny, I actually like it quite a bit. lol

After being in a couple bands that have really struggled with band names (and I mean REALLY), I came up with an idea to find band names that I have yet had the opportunity to use (all my current bands had names before I joined)...

Everyone in the band writes down one word each on three slips of paper. You throw them all in a hat, and draw two. Boom. No arguing, there's your name. You can make ground rules, like "no dirty words" and "each person gets ONE veto." Otherwise you'll end up with something like The Dusty C*ntwhistles. lol

Like Stickplayer said, pretty much everything is taken, so you've gotta get inventive.

5sg.
 

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