Jun 242016
As I browse through the listings on dimeadozen, I often chuckle at the names of heavy metal bands. “This can’t be real?!?!”
Here is a simple quiz. There are 12 band names. Some are real, that is, they are taken from dimeadozen listings, which are in the Heavy Metal category; others are names I made up. Your challenge is to identify which are real and which are the result of me having too much time on my hands. No cheating, no researching; all you can do is look at the list.
OK — I’ll bite —
Fake:
Asparagus Urine — a good album title would be “Green”
Beartooth — “Claw”
Deviant Septum — “Blowback”
Project Armageddon — “Time”
i’ll let a few more try before I rate your response.
Fake:
Asparagus Urine
Autopsy 666
Deviant Septum
Nocturnal Emission
Satan’s Request
Venom Inc.
REAL
Asparagus Urine
Asphyx
Beartooth
Blind Guardian
Nocturnal Emission
Primordial
Venom Inc.
FAKE
Autopsy 666
Deviant Septum
Morgoth
Project Armageddon
Satan’s Request
BTW, I hope to god that Beartooth and Blind Guardian are real names. They are so distinctively bad that some group of musicians needs to have practiced to make them real.
Not too many players but maybe if I give some hints…
funoka is correct on two of the fake names.
Mr Mod, Beartooth and Blind Guardian are real names.
I will now out myself as having dated a drummer in a metal band called…Tyrant Rage!
Given that name, any of those could be real. Al, I admire your metal moniker talents.
I really, really, really want Asparagus Urine to be a real band, even if it’s not a metal band.
1. Asparagus Urine2. Asphyx
3. Autopsy 6664. Beartooth
5. Blind Guardian
6. Deviant Septum7. Morgoth
8. Nocturnal Emission9. Primordial
10. Project Armageddon
11. Satan’s Request12. Venom Inc.
patrock is declared the winner, nailing the 5 fake bands!
Honorable mention to cdm who named the 5 fakes but threw in a real one.
Both patrock and cdm now have to confess to (1) cheating or (2) knowing way too much about heavy metal…
I was too lazy to cheat and I don’t like heavy metal. That was just (good?) instincts on my part.
I saw Slayer before Kerry King went bald, I saw Stryper in a church and I’ve been on stage with Rob Halford …I’m kind of METAL!!
and though I was familiar with the real bands on the list, a couple were a guess.
I didn’t cheat but I really wanted to check my answers after I sent it …but I waited …yay me!
Also to add to it, these bands do exist.
Autopsy
Destroyer 666
Nocturnal
Deviant
Satan
I think I created Autopsy 666 from those first two.
A heavy metal super-group name!
I just saw a heavy metal band listed on dimeadozen named Goatwhore.
I don’t know about you but I would have guessed that was a made-up name.