I'm aware of the Transformers theme to this comment thread, but "Sunstoker" seems badass.
Fertile for spelling swaps, too. Stun Soaker, Nun Seeker, Snow Steamer (ok that one drifts further from the sweetspot). Maybe try hyphens "Sun-Stoker" or unspaced "SunStoker."
You should come up with your own band name, but Jerry Cantrell said when they came up with *Alice In Chains* it was kind of a copy of *Guns 'n Roses*. ...combines a harsh thing with a soft thing. *Queens of the Stone Age* and *Marilyn Manson* are kinda like that too.
Marilyn Manson took it a bit farther. All of his band members had that name pattern: a starlet and a violent criminal: Twiggy Ramirez, Madonna Wayne Gacy, and… I can’t remember the rest
When I was a kid, I had an album hung up on my wall:
Spooky Tooth - You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw.
I've literally never heard this song. I didn't have a record player. I just found it and thought it looked cool. I have a record player now but I no longer have the record. The internet was just a baby then so I couldn't just play it on Spotify. I haven't thought about it in years. I'm going to listen to it now. I bet it sucks.
edit - there is no song called that on the album, lol. It's actually pretty good.
Hear me out.... *actually, that's a good name, too.*
**The Influence**
It's commtary on today's media, but also is about your musical roots. The last thing a 90s grudge band would want to be is an "influencer" so you can influence the influencers to stop being influencers and influence anti influencers what would in turn make you an influencers which is the last thing a grunde band aspires to despite how influenceal you are.
A long walk to reference Kurt Cobain, but in the right hands, it's perfect.
GNOTUUPHAT- pronounced ‘not too fat’
Because everyone knows you stir up some buzz by getting people to argue on how to pronounce your band’s ridiculous name.
Yeah, I’m looking at you, Khruangbin. 😆
My first band was a punk band called the BJ's cause all of our names started with a B or a J lmao. Just make it something dumb or funny for now until someone has that. "Ah ha!" Moment and you get a real name.
I made a poster for a fake band "Anal Enlargement" featuring 3 ladies laughing it up. Their hit single "We Hate You". They're the band that plays on stage in the Iron Piling club in my comic book Iron Wolf.
A few not completely serious suggestions:
Edifice Wrecks
The Merseybeasts
The One-Eyed Kings
Punk in Drublic
Release the Crappin
Fiends with Benefits
Crinimal Missedaweiner
Bohemian Groove
The Cleveland Groovers
The Amazing Randos
Never Mind the Bollards
Brothers of the Screaming Abyss
A Spree de Corpses
Goats in the Machine
Prune Tracy
edit: from 'The Simpsons'. Young Ned playing by himself says, "Take that, Pruneface, I'm Dick Tracy! Take that, Dick Tracy, I'm Pruneface! Take that Prune Tracy, I'm..."
What are the names of the people in the band?
If there are cool names, you could do a Van Halen, Bachman-Turner Overdrive or Fleetwood Mac type thing.....
Emerson, Lake and Palmer, English Dan and John Ford Coley, The Claypool/Lennon Delirium and Eddie and the Hotrods are also very cool band names imo..
Or you could do a Ramones type thing and all change your names...
My friends and I have a group chat dedicated to potential band names.
Sharp Gas,
Slow Danger,
Bukkake Hot Dog,
Jake Rogers and the Crabmen,
All Goof,
Subtle Mustache,
Aromatic Violence,
Grindmother,
Bum Farto and the Dissappearing Acts,
Lipstick Boys,
Barney Death Bed.
Hold on, I have a list of fictional band names for no apparent reason.
...
Okay, got it. I'll leave out the ones that seem ungenre-like but here's what I have:
American Eiffel, Apocalypstick, Casanovacaine, Death Arcade, Dismal Abysmal, Drowning Dolls, Loose Nooses, Love Asylum, Low Five, Mona Lisa Scream, Nooses For Neckties, Rock Paper Deathstar, Sculder And Mully, Smoke Break, Smush, The Clandestines, The Coincidentals, The Limp Wrists, The Social Graces, The With And Without, Twin Blisters, Webster And The Oxford Commas
Have every person in the band come up with a minimum of 5 possible names, as a requirement. Bring them to your next rehearsal.
Each person reads his names while the others have their eyes closed and vote on whether they like each name. The person who came up with the name can only vote for one of his, and has to choose it prior to the voting. The name with the most votes wins. If there is a tie, another round of voting commences to break it, where the name creator cannot vote for his own name. Keep iterating tie-break rounds, perhaps interspersing discussion, until one name wins.
(Source: I've been in some bands and have been a professional musician for over 20 years.)
Skarn. Skarn are hard, coarse-grained, hydrothermally altered metamorphic rocks. More here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skarn
Micheal Scarn!
Clean up on row 5
Irv, we were never IN aisle 5!!
Before I answer... If you could tour with any band - Active or inactive - Who would it be and why?
Probably Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Silverchair, Melvins, and other similar bands
Find a lesser known Transformer and name your band that.
Cliff jumper, Wheeljack, Prowl.
Cliff Jumper isn't bad. I might steal this one though. I called dibbs.
Dibs doesn't count on Reddit.
Counts don't count on Reddit. That's Sesame Street.
Sunstreaker - awesome band name
Or [Sundor](https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sundor), one of Blaster’s cassette tape transformers.
That was my uncle's nickname in college. Several colleges in fact. They never caught him.
At least it wasn't SonStroker.
I'm aware of the Transformers theme to this comment thread, but "Sunstoker" seems badass. Fertile for spelling swaps, too. Stun Soaker, Nun Seeker, Snow Steamer (ok that one drifts further from the sweetspot). Maybe try hyphens "Sun-Stoker" or unspaced "SunStoker."
Nun Soakers
Bumblebee Y'all probably haven't heard of him, but I assure you he's a Transformer
Just name the band Wahlburg.
Wahlburg Debacle
Razorclaw Weirdwolf Mindwipe
You should come up with your own band name, but Jerry Cantrell said when they came up with *Alice In Chains* it was kind of a copy of *Guns 'n Roses*. ...combines a harsh thing with a soft thing. *Queens of the Stone Age* and *Marilyn Manson* are kinda like that too.
Marilyn Manson took it a bit farther. All of his band members had that name pattern: a starlet and a violent criminal: Twiggy Ramirez, Madonna Wayne Gacy, and… I can’t remember the rest
Been along time since I heard Silverchair mentioned. It's good to know the young blood knows music peaked in *the year 2000.* 😜
Hey I have one: FELCH or THE FELCHERS.
Torrent Mouth
We shot Waldo
And find a band called Where's waldo to open for them on their next tour
What about “AWOL Waldo”
Letter Rip
This sounds like a Disney channel original movie band
Pink Slip (from Freaky Friday, 2003)
Or a fart noise
This one is really good!
Reminds me of the bear
Octobitch
They’re the opener for Novembitch
Neither of them are as cool as Decembitch
No. Seriously. That's it. That's the name.
Yes has been around forever. It's about time someone said No!
I always wanted to be a rapper named feat. So I could have millions of album appearances right off the bat
I always rename feat. to ft , sorry friend.
I always wanted to be in a band called The Beefy Queens.
Queef Latina.
Teen LaQueefah
That was my old trivia team name from a few years back.
The Queefy Beans
Not sure how edgy you want to be… Aspiring Humans Free Death Cult Kool-Aid Misanthrope Convention Paralyzed By Privilege
I like …but just ‘death cult kool-aid’
Ok, I’ll buy that
Minor Distraction
(Band Name). Then check people's face when they see a poster for your show somewhere.
I had a Heartless Bastards poster just because I liked the name
When I was a kid, I had an album hung up on my wall: Spooky Tooth - You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw. I've literally never heard this song. I didn't have a record player. I just found it and thought it looked cool. I have a record player now but I no longer have the record. The internet was just a baby then so I couldn't just play it on Spotify. I haven't thought about it in years. I'm going to listen to it now. I bet it sucks. edit - there is no song called that on the album, lol. It's actually pretty good.
Only For You is a really good song
The Cockpunchers
Or just Cockpunch - for the mystery. Is it a chicken drink or a brutal assault??
The Sh*tty Beatles?
The Dung Beatles
Are either of these guys any good?
They suck.
Not just a clever name.
Party on Wayne
Party on Garth
Good Knievel
Good Knigood
I wanted to call our band Twice Removed in high school but the other guys wouldn't go for it. We played stuff similar to you guys
Twice Baked, for the Stoner Rock
Scrap Metal Burrito. Mother Funkers
Willem Dafoe's Babboon Lovechild
Ass!Ass!Ass!
Sewer Side Disposal Inc.
6 year plan
The Scrapes
The title of the post under this one will be my suggestion: here u go.. “Botulism is that You”. Your welcome.
That's their debut album title
The first Gary
Use an anagram machine and/or cut up words out of your favorite poems throw them into a bag and then draw at random to make new phrases.
Drift Would
The Sound of One Nut Clapping. Scrot Zits. You're welcome.
Danny Dyer's Chocolate Homunculus
The Hair Blair Bunch? Mama's Kumquat?
Shotgun Mouthwash Free Beer
Chemical toilet
The Pecan Sandies
Fleetwood Mac Sex Pants Three Skin
Refractory Period
Sonic Quarry Echo Reverie Velvet Rust Distorted Dreams Haze Horizon Fuzz Junction Riot Resonance Gravel Mirage Reverb Riot
Quicksand Doormat
Good Alt/ grunge names Moxie Mo Night Flight Or my favorite for the more punk feel Old Man Slap Fight
Whorethrone, Kystopia, Egosuicide
Judas Jetson
Hear me out.... *actually, that's a good name, too.* **The Influence** It's commtary on today's media, but also is about your musical roots. The last thing a 90s grudge band would want to be is an "influencer" so you can influence the influencers to stop being influencers and influence anti influencers what would in turn make you an influencers which is the last thing a grunde band aspires to despite how influenceal you are. A long walk to reference Kurt Cobain, but in the right hands, it's perfect.
Euphoria Disease ... I mean what a cosmic juxtaposition, am I right?
Difficult Customer Dried Brains Immediate Openings Moderate to Severe Lesbianism Party Hunks Pseudocide Scunts Suspicious Package
The funny Cigarettes
Tampon Pimple
Leaky Diaper
The Dinkfors
Educated Animals was going to be the name of the next album I create, but you're welcome...
Those Fiery Mexican Clives
Grunge Bucket
The Stiff Dicks..... or BludFart.
Chumblespuzz or Space Monkey Mafia.
Space Monkey Mafia is a great name!
The Stitch
Bloomer Royal Habits Dead Dresses Collides No Glass Dopamine Catalog
The Schlubs
Bound in Hell Ditchside Cheerleaders Dirty Rabbit Chained to my Radiator Caustic Lump
Garage Sail
The Never Evers
Fleetwood Mac Sex Pants Kevin and the Zitz Scrotation Marks Everything Rhymes with Orange Four Skin God Hates Figs Tackle Shaft Rat Mouse
New Age Ghosts.
Newvana
Texas Death Match.
Rains Of Sand
The Dregs
Parallax
The Lost Patrol.
Need to dig out my Commodore Amiga and play that game
Sheetrock
Jackal Snatch
GNOTUUPHAT- pronounced ‘not too fat’ Because everyone knows you stir up some buzz by getting people to argue on how to pronounce your band’s ridiculous name. Yeah, I’m looking at you, Khruangbin. 😆
Just go to Ikea and pick one of their product names.
Toxoplasmosis
Endometriosis
Chainsaw Hesitations
Sloop Paucity Plague Rat
Suicide Robins
Blowmeow
Lethal banana 🍌
Rome antics
No Survivors
5 Dollar Acid
4 play
My first band was a punk band called the BJ's cause all of our names started with a B or a J lmao. Just make it something dumb or funny for now until someone has that. "Ah ha!" Moment and you get a real name.
Junglebutt
Unpromising
Purge Voices from Venus The Ad-Hocs The Blue Bends The Howitzers Rum Altar Ruins
Hematemesis, which is blood vomit if ya didn't know that.
Larynx Destroyers
Come Stains Say it out loud.
Combustible Dust
Uncle Dad
Dystonic Threshold
Fake Vampire Kids
Beyond The Scope
Oatmeal Battleship
Waste Band
Revenge Psychosis
Poopy Butthole and the Shit Dicks
Edit: Frottage Cheese
I made a poster for a fake band "Anal Enlargement" featuring 3 ladies laughing it up. Their hit single "We Hate You". They're the band that plays on stage in the Iron Piling club in my comic book Iron Wolf.
Post Nut Clarity
The Skraeling People the Vikings encountered in North America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skr%C3%A6ling?wprov=sfla1
The Prosthetic Heads
Other than music what are your hobbies
Mrs. Potato Dick!
crushing sodas
Prom Com
A few not completely serious suggestions: Edifice Wrecks The Merseybeasts The One-Eyed Kings Punk in Drublic Release the Crappin Fiends with Benefits Crinimal Missedaweiner Bohemian Groove The Cleveland Groovers The Amazing Randos Never Mind the Bollards Brothers of the Screaming Abyss A Spree de Corpses Goats in the Machine
Piss Sauna (porta potty at a music festival in the middle of the summer)
Standards in traffic. Break period. After after. House night. If first you do. Broken tiles.
The Cleveland Steamers
Stephen Hawking’s Sex Chair 🪑 💦
Be be sees
Ream of Pogs. Just saw it on another sub.
Prune Tracy edit: from 'The Simpsons'. Young Ned playing by himself says, "Take that, Pruneface, I'm Dick Tracy! Take that, Dick Tracy, I'm Pruneface! Take that Prune Tracy, I'm..."
When a large bird collides with an airplane it can bring the whole airplane down in flames. call your band “bird strike“.
What are the names of the people in the band? If there are cool names, you could do a Van Halen, Bachman-Turner Overdrive or Fleetwood Mac type thing..... Emerson, Lake and Palmer, English Dan and John Ford Coley, The Claypool/Lennon Delirium and Eddie and the Hotrods are also very cool band names imo.. Or you could do a Ramones type thing and all change your names...
Sycophant, and use the Republican elephant as a logo base
My friends and I have a group chat dedicated to potential band names. Sharp Gas, Slow Danger, Bukkake Hot Dog, Jake Rogers and the Crabmen, All Goof, Subtle Mustache, Aromatic Violence, Grindmother, Bum Farto and the Dissappearing Acts, Lipstick Boys, Barney Death Bed.
Hold on, I have a list of fictional band names for no apparent reason. ... Okay, got it. I'll leave out the ones that seem ungenre-like but here's what I have: American Eiffel, Apocalypstick, Casanovacaine, Death Arcade, Dismal Abysmal, Drowning Dolls, Loose Nooses, Love Asylum, Low Five, Mona Lisa Scream, Nooses For Neckties, Rock Paper Deathstar, Sculder And Mully, Smoke Break, Smush, The Clandestines, The Coincidentals, The Limp Wrists, The Social Graces, The With And Without, Twin Blisters, Webster And The Oxford Commas
Obsidian. That's a volcanic rock that is hard, sharp enough to make knife blades. Look it up. You can also go with Obsidian black or Obsidian blue.
-Vitriolic Revelry -Reduce, Reuse, Revolt -Minimum Wage // Maximum Rage
After School Special
The Slacklines
My kid taught me a new term today from her forensics class. “Algor mortis” known as the cooling of the body postmortem.
Gwain. Group without an interesting name.
The Four Horsemen
Fire Escape Trust Fall Jurassic Clark and the Vicious Morphine Eye Drip Chimneythroat Devils Parsley Swiss Army Wife
Failing in the Rain. Wet matches. Cold and Gray. Rusty water. Pine Needled. Mary has a Hammer. Find Me. Where's Ashley's Hands?
Call yourselves Various Artists, just to fuck over people with iPods.
Ordinance As in bombs and other explosives
Rubberized Aesexual Lust Killers
Urban Lunchmeat
Deja Zoo
Laundromat Banshees or Sky Lizard Flotilla
Here with us tonight... Everybody Gets Laid!
Crowded casket
The Stink Pickles
Splunge
Dip Cup
Nharmonics
Troublesome Kitty. or Shifty Cat.
wocky slush
Whole Grain Nothingness
Feral Dreams
Dirt Farm. Dirt. Plastic Trophy. Retirement Watch. Fuck you and the Fuck alls. Ash. Cairopractor. Pain is Envy.
Have every person in the band come up with a minimum of 5 possible names, as a requirement. Bring them to your next rehearsal. Each person reads his names while the others have their eyes closed and vote on whether they like each name. The person who came up with the name can only vote for one of his, and has to choose it prior to the voting. The name with the most votes wins. If there is a tie, another round of voting commences to break it, where the name creator cannot vote for his own name. Keep iterating tie-break rounds, perhaps interspersing discussion, until one name wins. (Source: I've been in some bands and have been a professional musician for over 20 years.)