Friday, September 5, 2008

HEAVY METAL BAND NAMES, a flow chart by Doogie Horner

Give me fuel, give me fire, give me...flow charts! This week's flow chart from Doogie Horner details heavy metal band names.

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85 comments:

  1. Of course there's an upside down pentagram. What a delightful bit of design!

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  2. These flow charts are awesome, Doogie!

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  3. I take issue with this chart. I feel like Leaky Stigmata is more "screamo" than "heavy metal."

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  4. Doogie is clearly not a true heavy metal fan. He neglected to include The Gin Blossoms and Deep Blue Something.

    For shame.

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  5. Well done. But! Two things:

    Pantera is not foreign. I believe they're from Texas.

    It's "Motley Crue," not "Motley Cru."

    Now I wonder how much metal Doogie listens to. We should have Chip make a soft rock diagram next....

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  6. Ah, you're right about Motley Crue, thanks, I'll fix that. However, this chart is about band names, not the bands themselves, and Pantera is Spanish for Panther.

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  7. Awesome chart. One more potential fix, though: Ragnarok should be moved up a little bit into Viking, since it's a reference to the Nordic end times and has nothing to do with the Bible.

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  8. Mastodon is a glaring omission, but I know I wouldn't want to make the decision of whether to include them under Medieval/Viking or Animals/Real.

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  9. Fuck! Nevermind, it's right there under Extinct, exactly where it belongs.
    You win!

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  10. ALso, Avenged Sevenfold should be added to the list under Biblical, as they are at least as metal as Def Leppard and they derive their name from the story of Cain and Abel.

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  11. Dark Tranquillity (yes, TWO l's) was misspelled and misfiled under ANYTHING but pointless misspellings, and you badly need a Tolkien category.

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  12. Oh - forgot to say, GREAT WORK!

    JRRT names, btw: Burzum, Amon Amarth, Ephel Duath, Gorgoroth, etc

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  13. Ironically, you misspelled Led Zeppelin. It's not "Led Zepellin".

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  14. Too much rock for just one hand!
    Awesome! However....
    Shouldn't Extinct animals be a subset of Real animals and not Imaginary? And...
    Pagan isn't a subset of Satanic.

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  15. Awesome chart!
    Just curious, but why isn't Queensrÿche under the Umlaut category?

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  16. There could also be a "vulgar" category squeezed in there. Anal Cunt, Anal Blast, Goat Whore, twodeadsluts onegoodfuck, The Fucking Champs,

    but what everyone forgets is that this is more about design and less about an academic attempt to categorize all metal band names. and for that you get 10/10

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  17. I'm sorry but white Lions and white snakes do exist, where would you put "RothBlood" ?

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  18. This is most awesome, but it is not a flowchart, it's a taxonomy.

    - A flowchart describes a series of actions and decisions.
    - A taxonomy divides a group into a hierarchy of classifications.

    Also, I disagree that triple-umlauts are "physically impossible". A counterexample is the band Grotus, whose name had four umlauts, one over each consonant. (Unfortunately today's primitive computer systems will not allow me to type the name in correctly.)

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  19. You know what this means, right?

    Someone needs to start a new Metal band and name it "Triple Umlaut."

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  20. Where's Cryptopsy?

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  21. Extremely awesome taxonomy, but I feel I should point out in case you ever do a revised version; Dethklok has no umlauts, it's just Dethklok, and probably belongs in pointless misspellings.

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  22. "Mexican Santa" is in the book of Revelation? I guess I haven't been to church in a while.

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  23. I love it! I see one glaring omission though. What about Death? I think that one fits in the "death" category quite nicely.

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  24. Obvious omission, I don't see Metallica anywhere.

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  25. scratch that Metallica comment, I found it.

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  26. What about guns? ie: Guns n' Roses, L.A. Guns ect.

    and bondage? ie: Alice in Chains.

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  27. Superb! Already forwarded it to a bunch of people. And the comments above isn't a bad one, either....

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  28. Awesome chart!! Putting Mexican Santa under Book of Revelation was a stroke of genius.

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  29. Nice work!

    My input:

    (medieval) Killer Dwarfs
    (foreign) Meshuggah
    (intentional misp) Stryper
    (deadly things) Nuclear Assault, LA Guns
    (death) Six Feet Under
    (general spookiness) Cannibal Corpse
    (meatal) Machine Head

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  30. Hmmm... Where would u put Method of Destruction?

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  31. Awesome work BTW, but is it missing Celtic Frost as well?

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  32. Under "Dark" what about Nightwish

    Children of Bodem

    Sonata Arctica

    Pain

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  33. It's Children of Bodom and it would go under Death since the name refers to a lake in Southern Finland where three campers were murdered in 1960.

    Judas Priest is misspelled and I would definitely add Candlemass under Religion, or maybe Death.

    And yes, where's Death and Celtic Frost?

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  34. Hey, triple umlaut is not impossible.. it's not even hard to find one in Finnish metal bands names. Check out Isäntä Meidän for example

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  35. Not ahppy that Pagan Metal is linked to Satanic! Not true at all!

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  36. I agree with "BRILLIANT"..... and what's with all these people pointing out minor little flaws, I'd like to see them get off their butts and piece together something as creative as this... GREAT WORK!!...Colly

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  37. Colly, I think we all agree it's great, but Doogie does seem to want to improve it too, so I am sure welcomes comment.

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  38. Great chart! And yes, it's not 100% correct, but that's not the point :-)

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  39. Hey, this is great work! Discussed and linked to it over at our band's blog.

    http://fleshsocket.blogspot.com/

    "...Now let's look at the way that names can be chosen in Heavy Metal. Doogie Horner over at Comic vs. Audience has put together a brilliantly worked diagramme to instruct the ignorant on the type and variety of heavy metal names..."

    http://fleshsocket.blogspot.com/

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  41. What about good and bad? You know...

    Heaven and Hell
    Guns and Roses
    Funeral for a Friend
    Bullet for my Valentine

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  42. JRRT names, btw: Burzum, Amon Amarth, Ephel Duath, Gorgoroth, etc


    Cirith Ungol

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    Pantera was indeed from Texas (and Phil was from Louisiana).

    According to Encyclopedia Metallum, there is no professional outfit using the name "Sodomy". He probably meant Sodom (the classic thrash metal band from Germany).

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