Need a killer name for your post-death metal band? Try Unicorn Guinea Pig Parade. That’s the only way you can be sure your name won’t appear on Doug Moore’s list of the “100 Most Overused Metal Band Name Words” for Invisible Orange. He did it by finding words that “appeared over 100 times in Metal Archives’ band name database.” From there, he mostly excluded three-letter words and “stuck to words that can stand alone, grammatically speaking,” among other criteria. You can probably guess what finished first.
1. Death – 1,184 entries
2. Black – 1,157 entries
3. Dark – 1,094 entries
4. Blood – 924 entries
5. Dead – 741 entries
6. Hell – 704 entries
7. War – 731 entries
8. Necro – 632 entries
9. Soul – 538 entries
10. Night – 520 entries
11. Fall – 503 entries
12. Hate – 470 entries
13. God – 455 entries
14. Evil – 449 entries
15. Kill – 415 entries
16. Fire – 392 entries
17. Storm – 389 entries
18. Rain – 388 entries
19. Lord – 385 entries
20. Head – 383 entries
Kill Firestorm is a great action hero name. Anyway, see the rest of the list here.
