Taxonomy of Heavy Metal Band Names
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Heavy Metal Band Names by Doogie Horner (Comics vs. Audience) (pictured below; click for larger version) offers a well-thought-out taxonomy of many heavy metal band names, with five main categories—Deadly Things, Death, Religion, Animals and Badass Misspellings—branching into over a dozen sub-categories, among them “Pleas for Help”, “Umlauts”, “Medieval” and so on. All in all, not a bad job at all.[1]
Heavy Metal Band Name Taxonomy
[1] It’s a bit obsessive and it obviously took a lot of time and thought that, it could be argued, may well have been better spent elsewhere, but who are we to judge? We’ll all got our useless timesinks.↩