Band Vocabulary
My recent visit to a metallica concert has really spiced up my music buds. I started listening to some heavy metal that I initially discarded as trash. Some of the names of their songs were so really weird to me. On checking Webster I found that those weird names actually mean something. For example "The Four Horsemen" are war, famine, pestilence, and death personified as the four major plagues of mankind. Sandman (as in Enter Sandman) is a genie in folklore who makes children sleepy by sprinkling sand in their eyes.
Coming to think of it, it is not just this particular band which has weirdo names. Many of these rock banks have strange names. For example "Iron maiden" is a supposed torture device, which is a hollow iron statue lined with spikes .I used to think that most of these names are merely meant to attract attention and don't mean anything. But this recent liking for metal prompted me to check out all those names in the dictionary, which I though meant nothing. And lo .. the names actually mean something. For example, Sepulchura, derives from sepulcher, meaning a place fo burial. Sabbath (as in Black Sabbath)is the seventh day of the week observed from Friday evening to Saturday evening as a day of rest and worship by Jews and some Christians. AC/DC: can mean alternating current/direct current or a bisexual person.
Zeppelin (as in Led Zeppelin): a rigid airship consisting of a cylindrical trussed and covered frame supported by internal gas cells. Judas (as in Judas Priest)was the apostle who in the Gospel accounts betrayed Jesus. It can also mean traitor.
I googled for crazy band names and guess what ... there is no dearth of such bands. The weirdness of names ranges from "Afganistan Banana Stand" to "The Wrench twisting street lickers". Check out this link for some more funny names http://sam.hochberg.com/bandname.html. Never mind the reason behind these names, but browse through them casually and it is definitely fun.
Coming to think of it, it is not just this particular band which has weirdo names. Many of these rock banks have strange names. For example "Iron maiden" is a supposed torture device, which is a hollow iron statue lined with spikes .I used to think that most of these names are merely meant to attract attention and don't mean anything. But this recent liking for metal prompted me to check out all those names in the dictionary, which I though meant nothing. And lo .. the names actually mean something. For example, Sepulchura, derives from sepulcher, meaning a place fo burial. Sabbath (as in Black Sabbath)is the seventh day of the week observed from Friday evening to Saturday evening as a day of rest and worship by Jews and some Christians. AC/DC: can mean alternating current/direct current or a bisexual person.
Zeppelin (as in Led Zeppelin): a rigid airship consisting of a cylindrical trussed and covered frame supported by internal gas cells. Judas (as in Judas Priest)was the apostle who in the Gospel accounts betrayed Jesus. It can also mean traitor.
I googled for crazy band names and guess what ... there is no dearth of such bands. The weirdness of names ranges from "Afganistan Banana Stand" to "The Wrench twisting street lickers". Check out this link for some more funny names http://sam.hochberg.com/bandname.html. Never mind the reason behind these names, but browse through them casually and it is definitely fun.
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Cthulhu is an evil godlike being who would supposedly lay waste to the world if ever awoken from his slumber in the sunken city of R'lyeh located somewhere under the South Pacific.Physically, Cthulhu was said to have a bloated, humanoid body,greenish in color. His head was tentacled, with the tentacles arranged about his maw. Two bat-like wings sprouted from his back. His skin was said to be "flabby" and slimy. Cthulhu's exact height is not given, but the creature was able to pursue a ship through the Pacific Ocean, albeit on some still-underwater portion of risen R'lyeh, for some distance and still keep most of its body above water. "The Call of Cthulhu" is one of H. P. Lovecraft's best known short stories in which Cthulhu himself makes an appearance."Cthulhu" is usually pronounced "kuh-THOO-loo", but according to Lovecraft, this is an attempt by human speakers to pronounce a name that is actually in an ancient language alien to them. Metallica's late bassist Cliff Burton( who died in 1986) was a big fan of H.P.Lovercraft.cthulhu inspired two songs of Metallica. One was " That Thing that
should not be" ( Master of Puppets). No points for guessing the other song based on cthulhu.
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