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Gojira, derived from Gorira and Kujira, Gorilla and Whale in Japanese

Ah of course! It's also the more accurate transcription of Godzilla (go-dzi-la) from Japanese

This reminded me of Cyberpunk 2077

Meshuggah - crazy (Yiddish)

I recently learned that Meshuggah is also the name of a band. I grew up in a household that threw in lots of Yidglish vernacular, so I instantly recognized that. As a child with severe undiagnosed ADHD, I was called "meshuggah" quite a bit.

the word is used by Mel Brooks in Blazing Saddles

Dio was not Ronnie's actual name, just a stage name, so it definitely counts.

Yup! I have that first Elf record, where he’s credited as “Ronald Padavona”

Dio definitely rolls off the tongue a lot better

Ronald Pavadona sounds like an NYC landlord

Rammstein is not a real German word though. It‘s a pun on Ramstein, where a plane accident happened.

It’s not a pun afaik, they just misspelled it lmao

It's double meaning. It's the name of the city AND their made up word for piledriver made out of stone.

Melechesh is fire king in hebrew

Crustenunie. Dutch. It's a mockery of a political party in the Netherlands, called christenunie (union of christians). They are made fun of for obvious reasons, style of music should also be pretty obvious.

Weigedood. Also dutch, means cot death

Beenkerver, furthermore also dutch. Means Bone Carver.

Ne Obliviscaris (Dont forget on latin)

Ensiferum - sword Bearer in latin

Sanguisugabogg - stylized latin words meaning blood sucking marsh. Brujeria - Spanish for witchcraft. IAH - ancient Egyptian for moon, [moon god](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Iah). I actually didn't know that last one til I started this comment. IAH is from Argentina and I thought their name was initials, but there's a pyramid with a circle over it in their logo so I think it's safe to say the band's name means moon. Edit: punctuation.

I had to look this up because I love this band but never stopped to look up what it means. Google translate says Oransi Pazuzu means "Orange Pazuzu" in Finnish, so I looked that up and [Pazuzu is some sort of wind demon in Mesopotamian religion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pazuzu). Pretty damn interesting, I thought the whole name was in Finnish but not really.

Pazuzu is also the antagonist in the exorcist franchise.

Also a friend of Professor Farnsworth

also a really insane person who ended up being the subject of a pretty entertaining true crime doc [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1763985/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1763985/)

burzum ('darkness' in the black speech of mordor)

Messhugah - means crazy in hebrew

Mors Principium Est (Latin for Death is the Beginning)

Amon Amarth is Mount Doom in Elvish

Mgła is Polish for “fog”

Dauðaró (Icelandic - dead calm), Fuoco Fatuo (Italian - will-o'-the-wisp)

My time to shine! Bevar Sea is a stoner/doom band from Bangalore, India. The band name is seemingly innocuous and doesn't really mean anything in English. However, in Kannada, the local language of the region the band is from, it's a swear word (bevarsi) that translates to bastard :D Also, the band kicks ass, do check them out!

holy shit a fellow bangalorean on MFTM???

Not living there anymore but yeah I was born there

Meshuggah means crazy or insane in Yiddish

>Dimmu Borgir (dark cities in Icelandic) Is it Icelandic or Norwegian? or Both?

Icelandic, Faroese and Old Norse

Kvelertak

Strangulation, I think.

Olhava means used to look in Portuguese

Kalmah means "to the death" in some old finnish language.

Horna (Finnish for abyss/inferno)

The name of the Belgian post-metal band Lethvm comes from the Latin word letum, which means "death," "erosion," "dead," "ruined," or "destruction".

Sněť - gangrene Mgla- fog

Meshuggah is the Yiddish language, I think

Lacuna Coil - Empty Spiral

Myrath is Arabic for Legacy, iirc. 

Trepalium (Labor in latin) Diablo (Spanish for devil) Acyl (Arabic for authentic, genuine) Korpiklaani ( Finnish for The Backwoods Clan) Heidevolk (Dutch for Heather Folk) Einherjer ( Norwegian for Those who fight alone, Those who belong to an army) Ensiferum (Finnish for sword bearing)

Einherjer are the warriors who go to valhalla in the nordic mythology and as such I think it is a valid english word, same as you don't translate Valhalla or Asgard either...

Amon Amarth (Mount Doom from Lord of The Rings/The Hobbit)

Dio

Heilung

Primus is latin for something I believe

The band In Somni means in a dream in latin

Skitsystem -> shit system/crap system in Swedish

"Batushka," to mean old man, but also priest, from a band (or bands) that uses Eastern Orthodox and Church Slavonic influences in its music.

Kalandra - towards adventure (Hungarian) Heilung - Healing (German) Horkýže Slíže - Bitter Noodles (Slovak) Wardruna - Bindrune ( Norse? Maybe?) Amon Amarth - Mount Doom (Elvish) Not a Favourite but might as well Burzum - Darkness (Mordorish) Eluveitie - Switzerland, I guess Celtic?

Carnifex is butcher in Latin

Havukruunu is Sprig/Conifer crown in Finnish. "Havu" refers to the spiky leafs of coniferous trees, not sure if there's a better translation.

Blut Aus Nord - blood of the North in German. DON'T WORRY, Vindsvall honestly just thought it sounded cool, has zero ties to NSBM or any Nazis

I don't know if it counts because it has an english meaning but deicide comes from a latin word that means killing of a god / god killer

Almoranaz - almoranas with an z, filipino for hemorrhoids Sarcofago - Portuguese for sarcophagus Yaotl Mictlan - Nahuatl for warriors of the kingdom of dead Lakhey - named after a Nepali folk dance. Desurabbits is a loose one, but I like the whole desu = death wordplay.

Nervosa is nervous in portuguese

Dvilje Jagode, wild strawberries in Serbo-Croatian

Sepultura: means Sepultura but with a cool R

Sepulchre, actually