Would "Phyrexia" or "Yawgmoth" Be Cool Names For a Band?
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Posted on April 18, 2018, 9:01 p.m. by DemonDragonJ
Some musical bands have derived their names from famous works of fiction, with three prime examples being Amon Amarth, Gorgoroth, and Cirith Ungol, all of which are named in honor of locations in Lord of the Rings. Not coincidentally, all of those bands are heavy metal bands whose music speaks of epic battles, grand adventures, and medieval fantasy.
Therefore, I find myself wondering if the names of the two greatest villains in Magic: the Gathering, Phyrexia and Yawgmoth, would be great names for a band. If one gives the matter thought, Phyrexia and their leader very much embody the epic fantasy imagery that many heavy metal bands portray, and I can easily imagine a band named for either of them singing about battles, quests, and other elements of medieval high fantasy.
I do not believe that a band would need permission from WotC to use those names, since I highly doubt that the previous three bands that I mentioned obtained permission from the Tolkien estate to use those names.
What does everyone else say about this? Would "Phyrexia" or "Yawgmoth" be cool names for a band?
Deathdragon says... #4
Since Yawgmoth is already a band as mentioned above (to bad its Black I might of tried it out if it Death Metal.)
Ill go with what I think The phyrexian band would do, I think and I am biased towards my genre that the Phyrexian band would do a blend of Death metal and symphonic metal kind of like what septicflesh and fleshgod apocalypse do. Maybe even a perfected version of video game metal (Machinae Supremacy).
I for one am interested in where this goes and Ill add on to world/evil band with The eldrazi which to me sounds hard rockish maybe punkish.
April 18, 2018 11:14 p.m.
Deathdragon says... #5
And to add on to my last comment yes they would make really cool band names wether pure heavy metal symphonic metal death metal or black metal
April 18, 2018 11:22 p.m.
I've got a few eldrazi based metal names Deathdragon: The Hands of Emrakul, Ulamog and the Crushers (or Ulamog and the Pathrazers), Annihilator 6, Butcher of Truth.
April 18, 2018 11:44 p.m.
SteelSentry says... #7
I always thought Yawgmoth's Will sounded like an awesome metal band. I also like Annihilator 6 as some sort of electronic punk band. Another one that springs to mind is Furnace of Rath/Death Pits of Rath.
April 19, 2018 4:06 a.m.
I still want Decree of Pain to be a metal band name....Or maybe Slaughter Pact....Thats why i started playing drums :D
April 19, 2018 7:28 a.m.
Bulbasaur85 says... #10
Sanguine Sacrament would be an EXCELLENT band name.
April 19, 2018 2:18 p.m.
DemonDragonJ says... #11
HashMasta, I think that those card names would be better for songs rather than entire bands, and, having said that, would not "Night of Souls' Betrayal" be an awesome name for a song?
April 21, 2018 12:49 a.m.
Deathdragon says... #12
User:DemonDragonJ honestly Night of Souls' Betrayal does sounds a lot like like a song title for a death or black metal band, hell even the art looks like a metal album cover.
April 21, 2018 9:36 a.m.
DemonDragonJ says... #13
Deathdragon, do you also think that the artwork for Debt to the Deathless would work as the cover of a heavy metal album? Even its name would be good for a heavy metal song, as well.
April 21, 2018 1:22 p.m.
Deathdragon says... #14
User:DemonDragonJ yes I do think that would make a great metal album cover and song name, when you think about it a lot of cards would make amazing titles for metal song like Carnage Tyrant, Damnation, and Unholy Strength
ClockworkSwordfish says... #2
Yawgmoth already is the name of a metal band!
April 18, 2018 10:21 p.m.