Greetings, here I leave a book that compiles the origin of the name many Metal Bands written by Blair Gibson.He e-mailed a slew of heavy metal bands from every genre there is. He have contacted bands in black metal, death metal, doom metal, power metal, stoner rock and the list goes on and on.
He contacted each band personally either through their Myspace, Facebook or the bands official website. He asked them “How did you come up with your band name and why did you choose it?” This book answers those questions.
He included their answers as they were sent back. He e-mailed these bands and many others over the last two years and compiled a list of over 350 bands to be included in this book. He also had a local artist do up a cover for the book as well.
The book is as follows: introduction written by me, thank yous, foreword by Aaron Stainthorpe of My Dying Bride, index and page numbers, body of the book (answers), band logos, brief information on the bed, credit to the person who gave me the answer, appendix and a bio at the end.
BLAIR GIBSON
Blair Gibson self-released a joke book entitled Laff Your Ass Off: The art of joke telling on the
internet website Cafepress.com in 2005. He is 34 years old and lives in Regina, Saskatchewan,
Canada with his wife of 6 years (together for 12) Chantelle. They have no children at the
present time but do have a 4 year old nephew named Ethan.
Blair has lived in Regina his whole life and has been a metal head since he was 7 years old.
He has seen Megadeth, AC/DC, The Answer, Heaven and Hell and Def Leppard live. He
currently works at a Wal-Mart Supercentre as a Store Standards. He would like to work on a
follow up to this book with all new bands and all new stories!
Examples:
MERRIMACK (Black metal) (Paris, France) (Formed in 1994)
Merrimack is taken from a book by Graham Masterton. It's a word coming from the old Celtic
language ("Morior-Mac") meaning "infinite depths," used for describing a marine pit/chasm
without end. Every boat approaching to its proximity was swallowed by this pit. The signification
for this is obviously a parallel with "hell".
NEGURA BUNGET (Black metal) (Timisoara, Romania) (Formed in 1994)
We started a band under the Wiccan Rede name, in 1995. After a short while we realized black
metal was a natural choice for us, musically, but also spiritually, and means a lot more that we
thought when we started. So we needed a new name, to mark our deeper and total involvement
into it. That's how Negura Bunget was created.
Negura Bunget is black fog rising from a never-ending deep dark forest. It's a symbolic
name that somehow tries to picture the kind of musical and spiritual atmosphere we'd like to
create through our music. The two words are also from the oldest Romanian language
substrate, symbolizing this way tradition and authenticity.
ROTTING CHRIST (Black metal) (Athens, Greece) (Formed in 1987)
We were kids, we were rebels, we were black metallers, and we wanted something that could
shake Greek's back then fundamendalistic social base and what better than calling our band:
ROTTING CHRIST. A name that raised storms of resistance in the conservative community but
we kept up with that name because we simply think that everyone has the right to express
himself as he really wants and as individuals we think that all religions are rotting.
SHADOWS FALL (Melodic death metal) (Springfield, USA) (Formed in 1995)
The origin of the name actually comes from a DC/Vertigo comic book series. I used to work at a
comic book store for several years and that is where it came to my attention. It was a short run
of six issues that just had some amazing artwork and dark themes that seemed to fit the idea of
the band at its inception. The name sounded like a cool band name, so we did it. Although, the
secondary story is that it is from the lyrics of "the Hunter" by Dokken.
... and many more
The hard copy of the book sells for $15.00 while the digital download eBook version only costs $5.00.
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