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Weekend Rock List: Most Gruesome Band Names

10/26/07, 5:12 pm EST

Because Halloween is right around the corner, this week’s Rock List focuses on bands that are more horrifying than the entire Nightmare on Elm Street series. To honor those groups that frighten the hell out of you before you can even hit “Play” (and those that even make Nas’ new album title seem tame) hit us up with your favorite gruesome band names. Here are five that make us listen with the lights on:

  • Alien Sex Fiend
  • Carcass
  • Cannibal Corpse
  • Flesh Eaters
  • Christian Death

[Photo: Dalle/Retna]


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rudie | 10/26/2007, 6:14 pm EST

…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

leo3375 | 10/26/2007, 6:24 pm EST

The Zombies
The Killers
Iron Maiden
Anthrax
Napalm Death
Cradle of Filth
Death
Cannibal Corpse
Dying Fetus
Cattle Mutilation

DrJ | 10/26/2007, 7:02 pm EST

Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel
the Crucifucks
The New Kids on the Block

DrJ | 10/26/2007, 7:05 pm EST

Dayglo Abortions
Killing Joke
Matchbox 20

DrJ | 10/26/2007, 7:09 pm EST

Rash of Stabbings
Brian Jonestown Massacre
Billy Joel

Rocco Spezio | 10/26/2007, 7:48 pm EST

“Throbbing Gristle”

Anonymous | 10/26/2007, 8:14 pm EST

Annotations of an Autopsy
Cattle Decapitation
Beneath the Massacre
Circle of Dead Children

frank | 10/26/2007, 8:35 pm EST

headless torsos

Gaz | 10/26/2007, 8:51 pm EST

The Cramps
Slaughter & The Dogs
The Stranglers
Violent Femmes
Dead Kennedys
Brian Jonestown Massacre

Brock_vond | 10/26/2007, 9:15 pm EST

easily, the scariest, creepiest name and album title i have ever heard ….

Lubricated Goat – Plays Songs of the Devil

God bless Amphetamine Reptile, while it was alive …

Samsonite | 10/26/2007, 9:23 pm EST

Easily the freakiest name out there . . .

YANNI

sgtpepper | 10/26/2007, 9:27 pm EST

butthole surfers

yeaaaaaaaaa stan | 10/26/2007, 9:44 pm EST

fetus juice
abortion cocktail
shat in your vagina

i made those up, I’ll copyright them tomorrow

Abbey | 10/26/2007, 10:48 pm EST

ok…i’ll second cradle of filth and butthole surfers, and i’ll add cancer bats

thezero | 10/26/2007, 11:07 pm EST

the cramps

thezero | 10/26/2007, 11:08 pm EST

i guess i have to edit the name in order to post it:

A*NL C*NT

thezero | 10/26/2007, 11:17 pm EST

Hootie and the Blowfish

Bun B

David Banner

cindy | 10/26/2007, 11:43 pm EST

butthole surfers

Dracula | 10/27/2007, 12:04 am EST

Gwar, because it sounds like the name of some acid virus that devours tongues

Cradle Of Filth

Gorgoroth

to get the real vomit-sounding names you’ve got to go with Norwegian death metal.

and the most horrible of all

Olivia Newton John

TheGoose | 10/27/2007, 12:16 am EST

Skinned Alive To Death

Jeremy | 10/27/2007, 12:27 am EST

Millions of Dead Cops…God, they were fucking great!

Does it get any more gruesome than the Genitorturers??? What the fuck is more gruesome than having your genitals tortured?

Unstrung | 10/27/2007, 12:44 am EST

Dismemberment Plan

Monsieur | 10/27/2007, 1:09 am EST

Burning Witch
An*l C*nt
Cephalic Carnage
Pig Destroyer
Burial Chamber Trio

Nick | 10/27/2007, 1:15 am EST

Goblin Cock

Jeff | 10/27/2007, 2:38 am EST

Creed.

happyhappyjoyjoy | 10/27/2007, 3:37 am EST

Butthole Surfers

The Revolting C*cks

Brady Bunch Lawnmower Massacre

Seven Year B*tch

The Dead Kennedys

D.O.A.

Chinaski | 10/27/2007, 4:15 am EST

rrd, it really is hard to come up with a new list every week, it’s okay, really.

Stan, don’t fear, you just DID copyright them!

thezero | 10/27/2007, 4:57 am EST

even in censorship i errored…

AN*L C*NT

chinaski | 10/27/2007, 5:00 am EST

John Tesh.

chinaski | 10/27/2007, 5:01 am EST

Deicide

chinaski | 10/27/2007, 5:05 am EST

Hello? Black Sabbath. What? Satanic worship isn’t scary anymore?

By the way “Jeremy” needs to be locked up somewhere. you’re a little too into this!

chinaski | 10/27/2007, 5:13 am EST

the killers

linda | 10/27/2007, 5:16 am EST

the killers

chinaski | 10/27/2007, 5:22 am EST

that’s cool (the Picture) Alice is way scarier than fuckin’ Manson, any day!

SC | 10/27/2007, 5:29 am EST

Dying Fetus

cindy | 10/27/2007, 5:33 am EST

the killers

Daniel | 10/27/2007, 8:36 am EST

Anal [C-word] is a pretty harsh name.

Slim | 10/27/2007, 8:41 am EST

The C*ntf*ckers
Mutilated Vaginas
The Balless Pr*cks

Anonymous | 10/27/2007, 9:16 am EST

Helloween – just right for the time of year

Daniel | 10/27/2007, 9:36 am EST

Cattle Decapitation
Intestinal Disgorge
Vomitory

Jon | 10/27/2007, 9:45 am EST

The White Stripes

“The sound of utter shit & hell!”

rev.jones | 10/27/2007, 10:12 am EST

Afterbirth

me | 10/27/2007, 10:51 am EST

insane clown posse

rosa | 10/27/2007, 11:26 am EST

pygmy love circus

rosa | 10/27/2007, 11:27 am EST

The Soggy Roast Beef Curtains

rosa | 10/27/2007, 11:30 am EST

Janis Joplin’s Red River of Fun Flavor

rosa | 10/27/2007, 11:31 am EST

Cairo’s Cabana Boy

rosa | 10/27/2007, 11:32 am EST

The Twat Waffles

Anonymous | 10/27/2007, 11:54 am EST

N’Sync

Bangers-N-Mash | 10/27/2007, 12:48 pm EST

Yeah…

An*l C*nt gets my vote

Anonymous | 10/27/2007, 2:10 pm EST

Suicidal Tendencies
Millions of Dead Cops
Dogs Die in Hot Cars
and finally
Jesus Skins, a Christian themed skinhead punk band that has post concert “beating up neo nazis in the name of jesus” sessions regularly.

shocker10@earthlink.net | 10/27/2007, 2:14 pm EST

I always thought the grandaddy of badass names, the Grateful Dead, was sort of spooky. Especially since it fell out of the sky in the mid 60’s. Others:
Burning Sphynxters,
Bucket of Smashed Assholes,
and Lynard’s Innards.

Kobi | 10/27/2007, 2:15 pm EST

Suicidal Tendencies
Millions of Dead Cops
Dogs Die in Hot Cars
and finally
Jesus Skins, the skinhead christian rock band that beats up neo nazis in the name of jesus after each concert.

daniel moore | 10/27/2007, 2:37 pm EST

the cult,my bloody valintine

R. Tickle | 10/27/2007, 3:42 pm EST

this band was from England around 1985…where they be now?

Melvin Giganticus
& the Turd Burglars

jjj | 10/27/2007, 4:26 pm EST

CATTLE DECAPITATION

rob | 10/27/2007, 5:21 pm EST

placenta

greenonions | 10/27/2007, 5:30 pm EST

Clay Aiken… it gives me shivers as does Sean Kingston

musicJUNKIE | 10/27/2007, 5:53 pm EST

stone temple pilots were originally named “shirley temple’s pussy”

musicJUNKIE | 10/27/2007, 5:56 pm EST

cocksparrer

musicJUNKIE | 10/27/2007, 5:59 pm EST

alien ant farm
flogging molly
rancid
saliva
dead milkmen

i know, mine are kinda wimpy

Anonymous | 10/27/2007, 7:00 pm EST

hoobastank

just sounds gross.

yeah yeah no | 10/27/2007, 7:47 pm EST

love

the country of china | 10/27/2007, 7:50 pm EST

butthole surfers

Ragamuffin Gunner | 10/27/2007, 9:15 pm EST

Peter Paul and Mary

Matt | 10/27/2007, 9:37 pm EST

Crotch Duster

kingrick | 10/27/2007, 10:08 pm EST

Gang Green
Fudge Tunnel
Dead Boys
White Zombie
W.A.S.P.
Body Count

me | 10/27/2007, 10:19 pm EST

Sic Fucks

thezero | 10/27/2007, 10:33 pm EST

so people can post the word “shit” but i have to edit c*nt? what the hell????

e=mc2 | 10/27/2007, 10:53 pm EST

Paracoccidioidomicosisproctiti ssarcomucosis

The name is so long it’s scary.

Anonymous | 10/28/2007, 12:46 am EST

the whore moans

Anonymous | 10/28/2007, 12:59 am EST

cunninlinguists

Kraft Werker Permit | 10/28/2007, 2:14 am EST

Scary Manilow

Bela Fleckosi

My-I-Eye-A Carry

Justin Tibia-Rake

chinaski | 10/28/2007, 2:52 am EST

More obvious ones, boy people are asleep this weekend.

Megadeth
Slayer
Molly Hatchett

aj14 | 10/28/2007, 3:16 am EST

dead jesus

peace | 10/28/2007, 3:18 am EST

war

followed by freaks | 10/28/2007, 3:54 am EST

monster magnet

chinaski | 10/28/2007, 4:34 am EST

“Jesus Skins, a Christian themed skinhead punk band that has post concert “beating up neo nazis in the name of jesus” sessions regularly.”

that sounds like a much cooler Christian sect than the douche bags who thought Jerry Falwell was some kind of great religious leader. I loved his infamous fight against the “evil” teletubbies! What a dick he was!!!

Voivod. don’t what it means, but they we’re a pretty fucked up group o’ boys! Voivod just sounds evil!!!

chinaski | 10/28/2007, 4:35 am EST

Overkill

told you so | 10/28/2007, 5:38 am EST

The Hives

ur a fuckin' crackhead | 10/28/2007, 7:23 am EST

the hives? that’s not scary.
Megadeth and Slayer. Now those are scary names!

AZ | 10/28/2007, 7:24 am EST

Backstreet Boys (I know, but I’m truly terrified that they’re back)

1 MAN BAND | 10/28/2007, 7:29 am EST

Jerry Lee Lewis “The Killer”

Four of his wives died mysteriously on his watch. The police never bothered to do any kind of deep investigation on any of these cases. Why? Because he scared the living shit out of them, that’s why!!! It’s true! That’s one motherfucker who lives up to his name!!!

that's not funny | 10/28/2007, 7:33 am EST

megadeth
slayer

that's not funny | 10/28/2007, 7:37 am EST

jesus, you’re waaaayyyyyyyy too sensitive!

Travis Ryan | 10/28/2007, 8:47 am EST

Cattle Decapitaion

cattle Decapitation

Cattle Decapitation

Cattle Decapitation

Cattle Decapitation

Drieser | 10/28/2007, 9:30 am EST

Cattle Decapitation.
Are you sure?

Drieser | 10/28/2007, 9:33 am EST

Knights In Satan’s Service

cocksmoker | 10/28/2007, 9:37 am EST

Cattle Decapitaion

Cannibal Corpse

Chinaski | 10/28/2007, 11:00 am EST

The Who

The Sex Pistols

The Zombies

The Animals

told you so | 10/28/2007, 12:51 pm EST

Vlubä

(Prehistoric Magical Psychic Band)

tony | 10/28/2007, 12:57 pm EST

The DayGlo Abortions

The Saint | 10/28/2007, 2:01 pm EST

Orgy
Limp Bizkit ( I mean, what did they mean by Limp?)
Cannibal Ox
Puscifer

Charles Crossley, Jr. | 10/28/2007, 3:16 pm EST

Coming in late, I made my list, then went through and found almost every single one of them has been suggested, even one of my two funny ones (Backstreet Boys scare me). So, I’ll contribute, to the humor of all here:

GWAR

Not even the Backstreet Boys are scarier than GWAR!

And here’s my serious contributions for your consideration:

Fear Factory
Fine Young Cannibals
Gravediggaz
Nine Inch Nails
Suicide
10,000 Maniacs
13th Floor Elevators

And I give a hearty yes to all the following:

Alien Sex Fied
. . . And You Will Knows Us By The Trail Of Dead
Anthrax
Black Sabbath
Body Count
Brian Jonestown Massacre
Christian Death
The Cult
The Dead Boys
Dead Kennedys
Dead Milkmen
The Killers
Killing Joke
Molly Hatchett
My Bloody Valentine
Napalm Death
Rancid
Revolting Cocks
Seven Year B*tch
The Stranglers
Suicidal Tendencies
Throbbing Gristle
Violent Femmes
The Zombies

tony | 10/28/2007, 3:19 pm EST

Cattle Decapitation

Jon F | 10/28/2007, 3:24 pm EST

Brotha Lynch Hung. Listen to the shit he raps about and you’ll know.

“Baby barbecue ribs and guts and, uh/don’t make me get to deep fryin’ baby nuts”

DT | 10/28/2007, 5:49 pm EST

OK, I’m going extra obscure here, This one made it on High Times Hemp 100 about 15 years ago:
Dahmers Icebox

Nessie | 10/28/2007, 7:39 pm EST

Sea Monster Surf Band
The Monster Ceilidh Band
Monster (the band)
The Monster Dog Band
The Monsters
The Monster Horn Band
Guerrilla Funk Monster
Oh My God! – It’s A Sea Monster!

angie | 10/28/2007, 8:42 pm EST

cattle decapitation

anycolouryoulike | 10/28/2007, 8:47 pm EST

i think smash mouth is a little more gruesome than the killers lmao

Jeremy | 10/28/2007, 9:00 pm EST

Hey! I didn’t name those bands (MDC and Genitorturers) nor was I advocating the killing of police or the torturing of genitals! haha. I think having one’s genitals tortured is pretty fucking gruesome.

Tone | 10/28/2007, 9:42 pm EST

You’re right, Frank, but the whole name is…
SCREAMING Headless Torsos, and they can truly and easily scare the pants of almost every other band mentioned here! Monster musicians, for sure!

merry halloween | 10/28/2007, 10:07 pm EST

screaming trees
smashing pumpkins

MON | 10/28/2007, 11:12 pm EST

Cattle Decapitation

merry halloween | 10/28/2007, 11:34 pm EST

“ghost”

an actual band

jclang | 10/28/2007, 11:48 pm EST

vomit launch (old sf bay area band)

Mr_Vorhias | 10/29/2007, 12:01 am EST

From Japan, it’s Spread Beaver.

duchampy | 10/29/2007, 12:04 am EST

you’ve got foetus on your breath

scraping foetus off the wheel

christian death is a scary name?

aids wolf

ray | 10/29/2007, 12:41 am EST

Godsmack

Orgo | 10/29/2007, 12:47 am EST

I Spit On Your Gravy
Most every band with a number or
numbers in their name

Mr. Tim | 10/29/2007, 1:38 am EST

Boyz 2 Men

lovethatjoker | 10/29/2007, 2:21 am EST

dead kennedys
rancid
circle jerks

Drieser | 10/29/2007, 2:22 am EST

Okay, “Jeremy” don’t get your nipples in a twist.

Talisman (NY band)

Chinaski | 10/29/2007, 2:25 am EST

RE: “Chinaski”

Using my name??? What a sad lonely loser.

Pearl Jam (no not the band, just Eddie Vedder’s disgusting pimple ridden face)

duchampy | 10/29/2007, 2:26 am EST

i dont know if this is scary perse

M.A.S.O.N.N.A.

stands for the french

Mademoiselle Anne Sanglante Ou Notre Nymphomanie Auréolé

which means

Miss Bloody Anne, Or Our Aureoled Nymphomania

check him out. search for masonna.
you torrent devils you.

david duchovny must die | 10/29/2007, 2:56 am EST

The Roches (yes it’s spelled correctly)

field of dreams | 10/29/2007, 3:09 am EST

Foo Fighters

Foo fighter was a nickname for Unidentified Flying Objects during World War II by Allied pilots.

chinaski | 10/29/2007, 4:00 am EST

Nuclear Assault

(one vote for Black Sabbath all weekend. wow, surprising)

chinaski | 10/29/2007, 4:23 am EST

RE:anycolouryoulike | 10/28/2007, 8:47 pm EST

“i think smash mouth is a little more gruesome than the killers” lmao

smashmouth more gruesome, really?

When you factor in how many different ways someone can be killed, I think it’s damn fuckin creepy name.

Let’s see
killing by hanging
electrocution
suffocation
strangulation
chopping someone up with an ax
shooting someone in the head
shooting someone anwhere, really
killing someone with a chainsaw
killing by throwing someone from a 5th storey window
setting someone on fire
smashing someone’s skull apart with a baseball bat
running someone over with a car
blowing someone up in their car
crucifixion
Bruce Lee taking someone’s heart out and showing it to them before they die
throwing someone from a moving car or a train or an airplane
stabbing someone in the eyes with a knitting needle
smashing someone repeatedly in the face with a two by four or a golf club

stabbling
slashing
killing someone with a hard rake
smashing someone to death with a shovel
burying someone alive
killing someone with a bow and arrow
sending someone to a Tennessee jail to be raped until dead by police officer

pissing off rosie o’donnell
pissing anyone off in the italian mafia
pissing anyone off in the russian mafia
pissing anyone off in the irish mafia
pissing anyone off in the chinese mafia
passing anyone off in South Central Los Angeles
Killing with cyanide
tying someone up and putting them in a cave to be eaten by rats (thanks Iceman)
blowing up someone’s home
setting someone’s home on fire
Demolishing someone’s house people still inside
Lethal Injection
Firing Squad
Being Killed during armed robbery
Partial Birth Abortion
Blowing Up An Abortion Clinic
Abortion in General

smash mouth hmmm . . . broken jaw, broken teeth. don’t think so. I’m sure I’ve missed several more forms of how to kill someone
feel free to add more

New York Doll | 10/29/2007, 4:30 am EST

Rob Sheffield couldn’t do any better than that!!!

Okay, I’ll pick Black Sabbath

New York Doll | 10/29/2007, 4:32 am EST

yeah, whatever. the morning crew, who are much cooler, will make sure it gets put back up!!!

Violins | 10/29/2007, 5:10 am EST

Bad Brains
Minor Threat

Chinaski | 10/29/2007, 5:25 am EST

minor threat is not even minor gruesmore.

GG Allin and the Scumfucs

Chinaski | 10/29/2007, 7:26 am EST

is Michael McKeon
(just in case someone tries to rip me off!)

The Zombies

Dana Doll | 10/29/2007, 7:37 am EST

I think George Carlin would be very impressed, Chinaski!!!

Plutonium Death (NY undergroumd band)
Biohazard (no one said this one, wow!)

Chinaski | 10/29/2007, 7:44 am EST

. . . or maybe it’s because it belongs to me, and I have no problem saying so. Well, I did write the thing, after all. whatever. who can figure out the rules. whatever the hell they are, apparently i’m always breaking them!!!

R. Tickle | 10/29/2007, 8:28 am EST

The Bloody Hollies

(classic AND gruesome)

Katherine | 10/29/2007, 8:33 am EST

Machine Gun Fellatio
Australian band. Not terribly good music. Now just call themselved MGF

ps | 10/29/2007, 9:41 am EST

clown vomit

Anonymous | 10/29/2007, 11:24 am EST

metallica

beatles

rollin g stones

van halen

led zeppelin

pink floyd

the doors

eminem

ac/dc

ni rvana

pearl jam

The most disgusting garbage to exist in the history of music.

Bbbbbbbllllllaaaaaah hhhhhhhh-yyyyyeeeeeecccchhhhhh hh!!!!!

pukin’

francbroc | 10/29/2007, 11:32 am EST

did I dream it or there was a band called the Meat Puppets.

Joey | 10/29/2007, 11:36 am EST

Megadeth
Revolting Cocks
Burn The Priest (Lamb of God’s old name, which only makes it funnier)
Devildriver
Murderdol ls
Nailbomb
Thine Eyes Bleed

Mule | 10/29/2007, 1:59 pm EST

This is fun, but a list of scariest songs would’ve been great for Halloween, too.

Anyway, I’ll submit for this list: WAR

pepper | 10/29/2007, 2:06 pm EST

d.o.a.

wobblin' bob | 10/29/2007, 2:31 pm EST

angry samoans,the meatmen,unnatural axe,the slits,madonna

Greil Marcus | 10/29/2007, 2:39 pm EST

The Blood Drained Cows.

MAtt | 10/29/2007, 3:35 pm EST

Rotting Christ
Strapping Young Lad (and if you don’t think that’s gross just look up some pics of these guys)

Bobby | 10/29/2007, 4:24 pm EST

Igor & the Skindiggers

field of dreams | 10/29/2007, 5:25 pm EST

Psychic Ills

jill hives | 10/29/2007, 6:03 pm EST

genitorturers
sepultura
chai nsaw kittens
face down in shit
dennis franz’s ass.

Jen | 10/29/2007, 6:18 pm EST

Butt Trumpets

HC Bukowski Jr. | 10/29/2007, 8:08 pm EST

Re:jill hives | 10/29/2007, 6:03 pm EST

“genitorturers
sepultu ra
chai nsaw kittens
face down in shit
dennis franz’s ass”

Some of you are waaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy too familiar with the names of these. I hope I’m not in your neighborhood when you go on a fuckin’ killing spree!!!

seth | 10/29/2007, 8:19 pm EST

cephalotripsy
guttural secrete
orchidectomy
skinless
aborted
fleshgrind
agoraphobic nosebleed
necro
necrotic disgorgement
dislimb
jesus anal penetration
bathtub shitter
catasexual urge motivation
Cripple Bastards
dying fetus
cannibal corpse
dissection
cattle decapitation
autopsy
pig destroyer

grindcore1986 | 10/29/2007, 8:56 pm EST

Brutal Truth
Sore Throat
Charles Bronson
Magrudergrind
Fecal Corpse
Anal Blast (joey from slipknot was in this i believe)

Lion Hearted | 11/2/2007, 9:13 pm EST

Nailshitter

Bodies In The Gears Of The Apparatus

Funeral Rape

Consuming The Abortion

Pig Destroyer

Backstabbers Inc.

Cephalic Carnage

Carcass

Found Dead Hanging

Napalm Death

Zombie Fatigue

Through The Eyes Of The Dead

me | 11/5/2007, 9:51 pm EST

goatwhore

thats just dicusting…

abi | 7/11/2009, 12:02 pm EST

Columbine
…yes there is a band called columbine, it features an old member of psyclon nine.

Suicicde silence

sam | 9/22/2009, 9:27 pm EST

lake of anal mucus

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