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Whenever I hear a cool phrase somewhere, I like to exclaim "That would make a cool band name". This page is a list of such names.
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Entries Beginning with A, Page 5
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Name | Origin | Submitted by: | ||
| The Anti-Social Socialites | It is cool because it's contradictory, and when people shorten our name, it spells A.S.S. | Lisha | ||
| Anti-Trend | I was just putting words together to make a name. and came up with this | zodiaxj | ||
| The Antibodies | With all the hype on perfect bodies pushed on TV, this would be a great punk band name for some guys that were slightly overweight, and had that used car look to them... I came up with this in our currently ongoing quest to find a band name for ourselves. | Cool Ray Gun | ||
| AntiBoss | This was the name of our school rock band, and I think it was pretty darn cool. | Tezza | ||
| Anticipating Apolcalypse | I was in a really crappy mood when I came up with this. I was all "Man I want the world to end". Then I wrote this down and I thought it sounded really cool. | Lanaia | ||
| Anticruses | is counds like anti-christ, or reminds me of it, but in fact it's the proper terminology for the off beat in music..my bass player's music teacher mom suggested this name for our still unnamed band... | magic happy | ||
| The Antidote | A name synonymous with The Cure. | Paul Bear | ||
| The Antisocial Club | It's a play on social club. Would be a great name for any rock band. | Edward | ||
| Antithesis | Sounds like a great name for an anarchy punk band. antithesis - n. pl. an·tith·e·ses 1. Direct contrast; opposition. 2. The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance. Gotta love it. | AntitheticMuffin | ||
| Ants Have Eaten the Sky | It's a long story | Woody Thomas | ||
| Anuerysm | Because in French, (French sucks) I was sooo bored, so I poked myself in the eye. I saw these red dots and was thinking of Nirvana and remembered their song Anuerysm. This doesn't make sense,but cool band name. | weed killer | ||
| Anus Murder | It's like "heinous murder" but it's not. | JeReMy | ||
| Anvilicious | It sounds cool because it has the word 'anvil' in it | John | ||
| Any Key | Homer Simpson: "To continue, press any key. WHERE'S THE ANY KEY?" Okay, has ANYONE found this elusive button yet? | something clever | ||
| Any Questions? | As a 13 year old, you always think of teachers asking you that all of the time. Plus, I think it's cool because it leaves you thinking of whatever is on your mind. Just cool, I guess. | Spenser B. | ||
| Anybody's Guess | It's from "Weird Al" Yankovic's song "The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota". (What was he trying to prove?/Who was he trying to impress?/How did he build it? Why did he do it/is anybody's guess.) | Brian Kelly | ||
| Anyone-Seen-My-Space-Bar? | A few months ago I broke one the space bar off my old keyboard, accidentily, then somehow I lost it. I had to use hyphens until I had time to get a new one. | AntitheticMuffin | ||
| Anything But Daisies | As many times I have been given flowers, not once was I given my favorite. I love daisies, but no one seems to give me any. | jayes flower queen | ||
| Anything With A Face | I know a girl who's a vegan. She'll come over to our house and my dad will forget she was "one of them." She'll always reply, "I'll never eat anything with a Face." | Corey F'n Stockton | ||
| Apathetic Congress | I heard the term on TV when a peace protestor was complaining about Congress' compliance with the war on Iraq. For some reason I thought it sounded like a band name. | Sallie | ||
| Apathetic Reality | this is the name of my friend's band. It means showing little or no emotion towards reality.. i thought it sounded neat-o | myself | ||
| Apathy Intervention | Read a Psychology book. Thought it sounded good. What more can I say? | Apex | ||
| Ape soldier vs samurai | I was watching planet of the apes and mentally added samurais. | Sinister Sully | ||
| Apeman Needs a Home | Well, here's the story for this one. I was at my friend's house and their was a tag sale going on. We asked if we could sell some of my friend's old action figures. We had been selling stuff all day and we realized that there was one toy that wasn't getting any attention. That toy was Apeman. We felt sorry for the amazingly ugly and lame action figure that had hair all over it and a green under-belly. That's why we set up a special sale for him we called "Appeman needs a home". After many more hours of trying to sell him and MANY more rolled eyeballs and polite "No-thank-yous" the mailman came and we finally convinced him to take Apeman home for free. It was heart-warming enough to be a band name. | Num | ||
| Apocalypse | This is cool because it means 'Doomsday' (the day when everything is destroyed). | anonymous | ||
| Apocalypse Cow | A cow that can predict The End, how scary is that. | Not G | ||
| Apocalyptic Revelations of John (or A.R.J.) | The words apocalyptic and revelations both sound cool, and they go together. John was the guy who wrote Revelations, the last book in the Bible. It's also about the Apocalypse. PS: Don't pronounce the acronym as a word. It'll just sound stupid. | Anonymous Bob | ||
| Apocalyptic Silence | It just sounds cool. | Rachel | ||
| The Apocolips | It tells us the fear of the end and is gothic and dark. | Chuck | ||
| Apollo Rocket To Hell | I was was looking at my printer because I was printing something right after I had watched "Little Nicky" the movie. | Joseph | ||
| Apoplectik | It means you're prone to strokes. Good luck pronouncing it. | Mr. Guy | ||
| Apothecary | An apothecary is basically a pharmacist in the Middle Ages. The name is perfect for death metal or symphonic/fantasy metal, in the vein of Bal-Sagoth and Nightwish. | Olvan The Terrible | ||
| Appature | I was learning about photography in art. My teacher mentioned 'appature and shutterspeed'. I thought it would be quite cool. | :-Dean | ||
| Apple Blossoms With Worms | There are apples with worms. Why not something with 'apple' that a worm can't get into? | bandname | ||
| Apple Pi | snacks and pi (pie) get it? if you do go see a shrink!! Now i'm going to see a shrink!! | Laura | ||
| The Apple Pie Crusade | C'mon, EVEYONE likes apple pie. Let's go to foreign countries and steal theirs! And it's cute! Great for a deathmetal band looking to slip past overprotective, omg-you-can't-listen-to-that-it-sounds-scary parents. | biTTEN.x.cRiMSON | ||
| The Applestick Desirables | We were trying to think of cool band names, when our friend Phil burst out saying he had a desire for one of those candy apples on a stick, and well he's like The Applestick Desirables!!! It's either cool and totally original, or just completely stupid, we're not sure which | Kallie | ||
| Approach With Caution | it was on a sign. | kyle d | ||
| April 32nd | We have a really (times 8) annoying French teacher at my school. (I'm telling the truth, she's that bad.) Some guy got sent to the office for doing nothing (which is usally the reason she sends us to the office but she says we were talking or something like that.) Anyhow, I went down because I said I was going down and in the office he said he'll have his detention on April 32nd. I said I would have my detention on the 12th of Never and the principals laughed. It would make a good band name by the way? :) (P.S.: We never get in trouble ;)) | phamilto | ||
| April Deflowered | Life isn't life without music. April isn't April without flowers. Simple isnt it? | RockerChick | ||
| April Mayhem | Either a female punk rocker or what comes after March Madness. | RevengeFromMars YouTube | ||
| Aptly Named | I was watching Austin Powers Goldmember, and that was how Dr. Evil introduce him he said, "The aptly named Goldmember." Sounded like an awesome name for a band. Feel free to use it. | Endless Dawn | ||
| The Aqua Fide | MY NEW BANDS name. MU band mates were talking while I was busy dealing with... 'Life' and They decided on that and I thought it was preatty kewl... | Eric | ||
| Aquafresh | its a toothpaste! cool huh! i just thought of it out of the blue,the big blue.the aqua,idont know, sounds cool. and the fresh is sayin like fresh as I return | stace or ace | ||
| Aqualung | The name of a Jethro Tull song. Not sure if that would be copyright infringement or not....but it's still cool. | Brandon | ||
| The Aquamen | Because Aquaman doesn't get enough love. | IHaveNoBrain | ||
| The Aquarean Conspiracy | This is just a cool name. Sounds like a techno rock band. | PhaserFuzz | ||
| The Arcane Randoms | It means the understood by few randoms, and that is why it is cool. Came up with it from mixing a few names from here. | yandj | ||
| The Arcangels | Inspired as a portmanteau word, combining "arcane" and "angles". That would tend to imply the most obscure or mysterious of angels. But it sounds like "Archangels" | D. Melody Dole, MD | ||
| ArchaicModernism | A bit of a paradoxical oxymoron. Gotta love 'em. | Kadooshka | ||
| Archangel Battalion | Because everyone likes to here a group of angels kick a** with guitars and drums. | redgar4238 | ||
| Arche Angel | Arche means something's leader. It just sounds cool. | jan lemon | ||
| Archetypal Clowns | Happy on the outside, sad on the inside. | Zac | ||
| Archie's Paper Cut | My friend and I were extras in this film called 'Paper Cut' and the director's name was Archie. | Alfonzo | ||
| Archives of the Dream | This makes me think of a metal band name. | enemy909 | ||
| Arctic Lava | A contrast of two extremes | Jonno | ||
| Arctic Lorry | My dad was looking for a job and my grandad said he has seen a sign for drivers to the arctic which should be interesting, the job was for an articulated lorry driver! it is a running joke between me and my dad. | Emma | ||
| Arctic Ocean | I think that sea is strong and the Arctic Ocean is where I want to live near the most. | Demi-lee | ||
| Ardent Orange | I had to use the word "ardent" in a sentence once, and it stuck. I just added the orange for flavor and needed some color to follow "ardent". | Just me | ||
| Are Cynic | It's one of those double meaning band names. It means the members are jaded, and then it's arsenic. My band was gonna change it's name to Are Cynic, but we broke up, so it's still fictional. | Jenn/Niffer | ||
| Area 51 | What better name for a band( unless the gov't has this name copywrited too like everything else).. This restricted area is what REALLY is making Las Vegas famous, not the casinos. Besides you think of aliens and the unknown unverise that is out there and leaves things to the imagination real or imaginary. | firefox | ||
| Arguement Error | It came up on my calculator once. I have no idea what I did, it just showed up. Good for a metal/hard rock band? | kinia | ||
| Aristotle In My Head | my friend said that she woke up one morning and for no reason, the first thing she said was Aristotle..like its the first thing she thought of-she plays the base in our band and and i think this name would be pretty cool for some band. | lenster lady | ||
| Arkvard | It's kind of like taking Aardvark and moving some letters, deleting a few, and creating a whole new word sound. | Bucky Chunk | ||
| Arlington Stat | My best friend(also our drummer) was in a very serious car accident. When he was life flighted in to the hospital, the doctors didn't know his name. They gave him an alias (Arlington Stat). That is an awsome band name! [Ed.'s note: Hopefully, "Mr. Stat" survived.] | CDpunkrock | ||
| Armada | cus it sounds powerful, i think its a fleet of naval (navy) ships or something. | Brett | ||
| Armageddon Angel | My friends and I were sitting around coming up with oxymorons and the girl sitting next to me just blurt it out. I am not sure if it's an actual oxymoron, though. | DrumGirl1092 | ||
| The Armchair Psychologists | It's a phrase that gets used a lot nowadays. You're playing armchair psychologist and so on. It's time someone used it for a band. I'm surprised someone hasn't already. | Edward | ||
| Armed hotdog | i saw the limp bizkit cd label at walmart the day after the 911 thing and thought there is nothing more American than the hotdog and the machine gun | Scrooge mCduck | ||
| Armitage Shanks | The toilet company | rae | ||
| Armonikos | Latin for 'skilled in music'. I'm sorry for knowing that. | Creg | ||
| Armpit | It could be a hair metal band, along the same lines as Poison or RATT. | Billy Florio | ||
| Army of Noise | Sounds like a thrash-metal band | RevengeFromMars YouTube | ||
| Arockalyptica | It influenced by Apocalyptica but with that bad ass middle part it's like the world will end will ROCK!!!!!!! | sLaSh | ||
| Arsenic Lullabye | I played (video game?) "Day of Defeat" with a guy with that name. Thought it was really cool. It has a deep meaning, if you think about it. | Daniel | ||
| Arsenic Poptart | My friend has this saying that goes "Isn't that just the arsenic icing on the cyanide cake." I was having a horrible day, and eating a Poptart, and she said that and it just kinda happened. I like it. Sweet but deadly. | Kerianne | ||
| Arsenic Tubs | An actual city of Arizona. | Drey | ||
| Arsenic Waters | I just thought of it in my science class. C I got my edmacation!! | Gregory Valentin | ||
| The Art Is Formally Known As Prints | You mean you can't TELL why it's cool? Darling, wake up and smell the burnt spoons! | Dudelette | ||
| Art Music is Lame | I thought of it when my cousin said "Art music is lame, rap is all the rage" while playing basketball with us. Can be abbreviated to AMIL. Best for a rap or hip-hop group since rap is the opposite of art music. | Joe | ||
| Artemis Braidtuggers | "Artemis"=name of goddess of the moon. "Braidtuggers"=inspired by a character from the Wheel of Time book series by Robert Jordan, named Nynaeve, who pulls on her long braid when she's irritated. Put them together and you have the Artemis Braidtuggers! Do-do-do DOOO! (golden trumpets blare) It's just cool and random. | FuNkY mOnKeY | ||
| Arthur's Knee | My favorite episode of Arthur is called "Arthur's Knee". | Lori Blonde | ||
| Article 15 | Thought of this name while in the Airforce and getting in trouble, this name would be good for anyone in the miltary or that got kicked out or couldnt re-enlist due to one of these bad boys. | kc | ||
| Artificially Flavored | Saw it on a Necco's box in my friends car... would be great cause it can be used to describe so many different things, based on how its said. i guess it just sounds cool. it would be a good emo band name. NO ONE TAKE THIS NAME CAUSE I WILL EVENTUALLY START A BAND AND NAME IT THIS. i have some other cool ones but im afraid they'll get stolen... or something... | Laura | ||
| Artificially Natural | big oxymoron (always nice) depicting the two sides of songwriting. 'nuff said. | Brad | ||
| Artistic License | We called our band Artistic License because at our first practice I kept on saying "We can write whatever songs we want to write, it is our artistic license" It caught on after a while and thats what we named our band. We just changed our name but I liked this one better, its really cool. | Lina | ||
| Arwing | This name is KILLER AWESOME because it's the name of the starships that Fox and his crew use in Star Fox. I think Fox is cool and is right up there with Link and Mario in the Nintendo world. I think Arwing sounds really cool when you think about it. StarFox Lives on! | StARFoX737818 | ||
| As Autumn Dies | I think a good name for a screamo or post-hardcore band. Plus autumn is the best season | Jakub | ||
| As Blood Lies Dying | I found it one day while I was out with my friend and his mom. We stopped by a store and the phrase "Blood lies Dying" was on the packet of seeds (It was at a gardening store). So yea, it sounded so cool my friend and I added "As" in front of it. | Chris L | ||
| as i was | austin | |||
| As Seen On TV | It could become ironic if you never get on TV. | shmoonoosh | ||
| As The Gears Remain | Sounds hardcore you know with the gears... yeah! | Kilo | ||
| As Yet Unsigned | Permanently have A&R men chasing them - no trouble then getting signed | Meee | ||
| Asbury Dean | Nobody knew who it was. Looking in the newspaper at the "Crime Stoppers" a man named Asberry Dean was wanted for sexual abuse in the first degree, we change some letters and went with it. | Winston | ||
| Ascendancy | Just sounds tight. Got it from my friends xBox Live Gamertag. | Derrick | ||
| Ascent Into Madness | For some, insanity is a positive experience. | RevengeFromMars YouTube | ||
| Asgard | Similar to Nirvana. The home of the gods in norse myth. | Joshua | ||
| Asgardian Forklift | A slightly warped take on Mannheim Steamroller; members would include Hy M. Dahl and Lowell Keye. | Ellis | ||
| Ash Phoenix | A line from Ani DiFranco's "32 Flavors" goes, "...and God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash, a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy as you are just flying past." | Medication-High Jesteress Among Royalty | ||
| Ash Viper | From the type of shoes that my daughter wears, | Daddy |
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