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• Eagleland: Acoustic heavy metal band from Farmers Branch, Texas that sing about American history. Think The Dread Crew of Oddwood if they sung about American history instead of pirates. Also cover The Eagles a lot. Currently on tour with Homegrown Hero.
• Earth Song: A Nature Metal band who's members were all either children of New-Age Retro Hippies from their own Psychedelic Rock bands. Their instruments are all electric and woodwind, most of their concerts are either outdoor concerts or free sit-ins in public parks, their songs either about the Animal Kingdom, fighting the evils of pollution or a form of Green Anarchist praxis.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: The Perspective Flip of Apocalyptic Log. Songs start out dark, and end good.
• Eating Lunch Alone: Nostalgic downtempo, perfect for listening to while you reflect upon sad childhood memories. Their song "Fell Asleep Crying" is often used in Fan Vids.
• Escaped from Hell: Hard Rock/Speed Rockabilly generally considered a One-Hit Wonder for their memorable electric guitar rendition of "The Devil Went Down To Georgia". Oh yeah, and they're all former Satanists.
• E = MC Hammer: Math rock/rap hybrid.
• Eject... Eject... Eject...: A dark electronic/prog rock band with a repertoire of songs styled after automatic emergency warnings. Their style has been described as "dark, soaring, and exquisitely slow-paced". Rather popular with Nightmare Fetishists.
• Eldritch Abomination: progressive rock band that makes use of creepy ambience interspersed with metal-tinged heaviness.
  • A name under which Andrew Eldritch will release his new albums.
    • A collaboration between both.
  • Adorable Abomination: A kawaiicore group dressed all in cheerleader outfits. Including the men.
  • Animalistic Abomination: A Visual Kei group where the lead-singer is part-Native American (or at least that is what he says) and has a pet wolf.
  • Botanical Abomination: A Grindcore/Black Metal band with a Killer Tree as its mascot.
  • Humanoid Abomination: An Alternative Heavy Metal/Hard Rock band made from various members of former Funeral Doom Metal bands.
  • Mechanical Abomination: A Black Metal band that uses metal garbage as a drum set to give a painful, scrapping sound similar to "Aint't Gonna Rain" from the Silent Hill soundtrack.
• Electric Love: Tells the story of a romance between a Fembot and a Mechanical Monster. Each song has the two singing back and forth to each other, with a distinctly techno influence.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: glam-goth/Visual Kei band with an androgynous frontman and vocalist, Frankie Hot-Dog, that has marked liking for corsets, and an Improbably Female Cast of musicians in frilly dresses. Their songs either involve lyrics about glorifying the Victorian era or stories about vampire princesses. Offstage, they are well-known for sipping tea all day, cosplaying as Rozen Maiden characters and conducting Live-Action Role-Play. Their motto is "Don't dream it, be it". Currently on tour with Dainty Little Ballet Dancers.
  • Unfortunately, their concert album "Lolita Complex" is known for its large amount of audience participation.
• Elves vs. Dwarves: Progressive rock. Their greatest rock opera, ''Our Elves Are Better'' (1976), originally took up four LPs and ran seven full minutes before the first words were sung. The lead singer famously gives all interviews in a West Midlands English accent despite having been born and raised in a suburb of Kansas City. Currently on tour with Don't Go in the Woods.
• Elvis Has Left the Planet: Elvis tribute band with a sci-fi theme.
• Embodiment of Vice: A Black-Death Gothic Metal known for their sleek fashion (hint: they wear all black) and songs that illustrated different ideas of what qualifies as "evil", including Rape, Slavery and the Seven Deadly Sins.
• Embodiment of Virtue: A Symphonic-Progressive Power Metal band known for their Star-Spangled Spandex uniforms and songs about The Cardinal Virtues, the Seven Heavenly Virtues and how the power of music can achieve world peace. Ironically, they are all Hollywood Atheists who only writes positive messages into their songs to cynically make money, all of them being firm believers in Humans Are Bastards.
• Emo Teen: An emo/pop-punk band that took their penchant for self-reference way too far.
• Emotion Eater: Variable. Albums are usually named (emotion) for (mealtime), and marked "Serve with..." and best before..." labels (the "Best Before" labels are always the band members' birthdays), like it was food. Badass for Breakfast is all War Is Glorious (serve with epic saga), Lust for Lunch is all Intercourse with You lyrics set to porn jazz (Serve with adult literature), and Despair for Dinner (serve with depressing philosophy text) is all gloom-and-doom Emo/ death metal. Insists their concerts are advertised as "buffets".
  • Other albums are: Trouble for Tea, which is a Rock Opera about a nuclear holocaust (serve with doomsday prediction leaflets); Stupid for Supper, which is all Retraux comedy music styled after 1950's novelty songs (serve with joke books); Bashing for Brunch, which is all anarcho-punk songs about how Anarchism is the only way the world should be run (serve with the collected works of Naomi Klein); and Super for a Smörgåsbord, which is all tributes to superheroes (serve with comic books).
• Emotionless Girl: Late 2010s vaporwave.
• Enfante Terrible: Blues glam metal with lots of single entendres.
• Epileptic Trees: experimental band with cryptic lyrics, trippy aesthetics, and mind-boggling light shows. No two fans can agree on the exact meaning of a song.
• Even Evil Has Standards: A Grindcore band with offensive lyrics similar to Anal Cunt that donate 75% of their profits to people or things that need help, like Africans without clean water or libaries on the brink of being shut down. Rivals with Dark Is Not Evil.
• Evil Debt Collector: Jangle Pop/Power Pop band from Western New York (the center of the universe for debt collectors) that sing about the abusive & harrassing practices of debt collectors (as well as how boring life in Western New York is more generally, but their songs about debt collection practices get them more gigs). All of their albums are named after debt collection legal jargon. Their debut album "This Is A Call From A Debt Collector" reached #1 in Japan and the United Kingdom but stalled at #50 in the United States. Every member, past and present, has been or is a debt collector (except for the current drummer, who worked for the Oregon Tax Court, and the longtime bassist, who worked for the IRS). Currently on tour with the Amoral Attorneys.
• Evil Virtues: All-girl punk band with lots of lyrics that deconstruct the theme of the Madonna-Whore Complex.
• Eternal Equinox: Dark, atmospheric pagan folk, in the vein of Faun or Wardruna.
• Exalted Torturer: A death metal/gorn band with lyrics centered around actual atrocities.
• The Exact Center of Everything: Desolate, dark ambient music in the style of Everywhere at the End of Time.
• Exact Time to Failure: American rock band who spend their spare time trying to predict the time when the world will end, and then write songs about their attempts. Broke up after the 2012 Mayan doomsday event came and nothing happened, the lead vocalist went on to become the keyboardist of Gratuitous Japanese while the drummer formed Funny Background Event.
• Extended Gameplay: Band formed by a bunch of nerds for a Battle of the Bands, which they somehow won. Later split off into Playable Epilogue and New Game Plus after an argument over whether Final Fantasy XII or World of Warcraft was better.
  • Alternately, your typical trashy metal band, who often look like they're having seizures on stage.
• Explosive Punch: A Thrash Metal band infamous for turning up the volume of their speakers so high, it blows them all out and gives half of their audience heart-attacks from the shock. The other half collapse from head-explosions.
• Explosive Stupidity: A comedy band that sings about what not to do with weapons. Released Feed It a Bomb, and then a Remix Album called Eat the Bomb, but hasn't made anything since then.
• Export Save: Electronic music that doesn't sell physical albums, but rather encourages digital downloads and streams on music apps.
• Every Japanese Sword is a Katana: A Hard Rock group of Otakus that mostly make Cover Versions of anime opening intros.
• Everybody Hates Hades: A Punk Rock band falsely accused of illegal activities in the country they hail from and ends before their time.
• Everybody Loves Zeus: A Pop Punk band that markets itself as a Hardcore Punk band in order to get more people to like them.
• Everything's Better With Penguins (now defunct): Enthusiastic, goofy Pop Punk with an almost childlike, optimistic tone. The world is a giant playground, life is pretty good, and penguins make everything awesome, so why worry?
• Eviler than Thou: A death metal band famous for dressing up as famous movie villains. The lead singer is Darth Vader, voice and everything, with Sauron on bass, Darth Maul on guitar, and Agent Smith on drums. The Joker plays keyboard, but it sounds like Bloody Stupid Johnson's synthesizer from Dontgonearthe Castle—all creaks, clanking chains, and screams.
• Evil Weapon: Heavy metal.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Also called Aptly Named by their fans, every one of their songs is about a random everyday object, and all their albums are themed around where the objects would be found. Closet is their biggest record to date, with hits such as "Shirt," "Tie," and "Smelly Shoe".
• Experimented in College: An experimental Rock group that originated from the same fraternity. Their name makes people think they're all swingers and in the same poly-group, but they deny it.
• Eye Scream: Death metal band with an impaled eye as its emblem.
• Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong: Techno/Punk group with laser light shows lasting almost the entire concert.
• The Fallen Creators: A band who was once named The Creators and had lots of fans. But then something bad happened and instantly all the fans started hating the band, leading to the name change.
• Fairy Devilmother: A Hardcore Black Metal band characterized by an incredibly sexualized Goth fairy as its mascot, with songs based on grimdark versions of classic fairy tales where the bad-guy wins.
• Fairy Godmother: A Queen-esq British Hair Metal band with glitter, sequens and bright pastel-colors (ice-blue, icing-pink, spring-green, sugar-white, etc.) all over their costumes.
• The Famine: A Death Metal who's mascot is a Plague Rat.
• Fanning the Knives: Hardcore metal band with a knife-themed motif. Their shows always aim to put on a big spectacle and upstage others.
• Fan of Underdog: Started out as a My Hero, Zero cover band, but has since found their own style, more pop than emo, by with similar fondness for Lyrical Dissonance. The two bands are both great fans of the other's work, and often open for each other... During the "Wannabe" tour, each referring to themselves as the other's tribute band and playing only covers of the other band's songs and songs In the Style of the other band. Fans refer to this tour as "I don't know what the hell happened, but it was kinda fun."
• Fanservice: Can you say "cabaret"?
• Fantastic Plastic: A 60's-nostalgia band with Mod fashion, each band member dressed entirely in a different color of the rainbow. One of their albums puts them in Hippie fashion, the songs done as an homage to the Flower-Power Woodstock crowd and their activist messaging.
• Fantastically Indifferent: Electronic music. An Apathetic Student who's learning magic from his Eccentric Mentor just can't seem to understand why he should care about it when he just wants to live a normal life.
• The Fat Bastards: Unpopular, obscure rock band. Released a three-track EP called Spiteful Gluttony but didn't do anything after that. Solely made to spite Never Gets Fat.
• The Fat Episode: Group of overweight people who sing about body positivity.
• Fastball Special: Heavy metal. They usually conclude their shows with the lead singer picking up the drummer and throwing him at his own kit.
• Faux Death: A parody band. Their favorite target is The Chew Toy's brand of emo. Currently on hiatus after the frontman quit because he thought the band's schtick went too far.
• Feeling Your Heartbeat: Cheesy pop ballads about love.
• Female Gaze: An all-girl band who play a variety of genres. Their music is often used in pornographic films. The band members themselves are actually serial perverts who LOVE gawking at boys, ESPECIALLY feminine-looking boys. The lead singer even has a foot fetish that she's proud of. There have been reports of audience members with backstage passes offering their feet to her, which she proudly accepts. There have also been reports of audience members mooning the band members, which they don't mind one bit.
• Feng Schwing: a band that actually tries to play serious songs to get people in the mood. Concerts either end in a massive sausagefest as all the women in the hall leave, offended, or in a gigantic orgy.
• The Fettered: Death-metal band famous for wearing shackles as part of their costumes.
• Fille Fatale: A Japanese Gothloli Idol Singer band. Would be insanely popular for 'bout 3 months, and then is never heard from again.
• Finger-Snapping Street Gang: 1960s style rock music.
• Finger-Tenting: A pop/rock band that all dress as mad scientists.
• Firewood Resources: A Folk Metal band. They dress like park-rangers and their songs are usually themed around the ups and downs of going camping in the Pacific Northwest, the dangers of the wilderness and Fearsome Critters of American Folklore.
• Fireworks of Love: Dance pop by a quartet of femboys.
• First Kiss: An all-girl pop trio who sing about crushes, lost loves and unrequited confessions.
• Fission Mailed: An experimental band, most of their songs switch style so often it seems like several songs cut up and randomly blended together. Combined with their lyrics the whole thing amounts to a Mind Screw.
• Five-Man Band: Another Meta. A band of five, who play rock that no-one notices.
• Five-Token Band: Exactly the same as the Five-Man Band, except for the fact that they are automatically considered cooler because almost all the members somehow fall into a "minority" group.
• Flames of Love: Glam Metal love songs. Has acquired an LGBT Fanbase over time.
• Flirtatious Smack on the Ass: Contemporary R&B group that makes love song with lyrics that will not age well. Currently on tour with G-Rated Sex.
• Flushing-Edge Interactivity: A band who produces songs with both Toilet Humour and edgy humour that keeps inviting the audience to join in.
• Flushing Toilet, Screaming Shower: Noise rock with the occasional shakuhachi solo.
• The Flaming Cobra Sugar Cellar: Rock band; considered good by most people but despised by those who knew them when they were "indie" now that they've supposedly "sold out." Their style and trademark surreal lyrics have gone unchanged.
• Food Shove Gag: Like Weird Al's "Eat It", but an entire band.
• Forever Fling: Electronic and pop duo, consisting of a boy and a girl singing about how they hope their relationship will last forever.
• For the Evulz: Black metal and murder ballad lyrics set to cheerful, innocuous bubblegum '60s music. Generally considered a Slasher Smile clone.
• Forbidden Fruit: All-girl J-pop teen band.
• Forgot the Disability: Genre-Busting band that creates fat-beats that confuse and alienate normal audiences but are appealing to feel as vibrations by the deaf and contain very subtle notes that blind people will notice.
• For Science!: Nerd rock.
• Franchise Zombie: A once successful hard rock band who has been forced to churn out records due to Executive Meddling. Most of their lyrics now deal with thinly veiled stabs at their oppressors.
• Freestate Amsterdam: An Utrecht-based progressive rock outfit with elements of psychedelia, with lyrics mainly focused around everything else in The Netherlands other than the hash bars and Red Light District of the eponymous city.
• Free the Frogs: A Toad Patrol-themed Heavy Mithril band.
• French Jerk: A bar cover band. The members are mostly from the States but celebrate the culture of the Canadian province of Quebec. In-between sets they argue in French (sometimes English), voice their support for Quebec seperatism, and eat poutine.
• Freudian Excuse: All of their songs are about over-the-top bad backstories of criminals such as serial killers.
• Freudian Slip: Indie rock band that experiments with different styles. However, every song ends up being about sex.
• Frills of Justice: A very girly superhero-themed girl pop group that only write songs about how the only way you can succeed in life is by wearing a Pimped-Out Dress.
• From Zero to Hero: Inspiring alternative rock, in a similar style to Origami Angel.
• Full-Frontal Assault: An experimental metal band that sings every style of metal in the book. Their stage shows involve themperforming naked, with the lead singer wielding a sword and play-battling other naked performers.
• Funny Background Event: Funny lyrics done as seriously as possible. They used to play alongside Godzilla Threshold, for contrast and humor value, until that band split due to a rather harsh example of irony. Formed by the drummer of Exact Time to Failure after that band broke up.
  • Alternatively, giving serious explanations for the Funny Background Events that characters perform.
  • Comedy band that tries its hardest to stay out of the public image.
• Furry Fandom: A Parliament-Funkadelic-esque musical collective consisting of four different bands:
  • Furries Are Easier to Draw: Gimmick band who perform in fursuits, were a media darling for a few weeks before falling apart due to "creative differences". The lead singer went on to form Furry Confusion.
  • Furry Confusion: Furry fandom nerdcore who's members wear fursuits resembling their fursonas and/or their favorite cartoon characters. They performed their first gig when they crashed an Occupy Wall Street march, setting up in record time and performing part of the song "What About The Furries? (And Those Who Ain't the 99%)" before the demonstrators caught on and forcibly removed them from the rally. They later released their first album, Humanoid Female Animal and began playing gigs all over the world afterwards and building up a fanbase within the furry fandom.
  • Furry Denial: Grindcore band similar to Anal Cunt who mock trolls who make fun of the furry fandom. Were once quite literally chased out of a town they had a gig in after making fun of the "all furries are pedophiles" stereotype.
  • Furry Reminder: Heavy metal group who perform in fursuits.
• The Foreign Subtitle: Indie rock band from a podunk New England town, who sing songs with lyrics chock-full of pop culture references.
• Game Night Fight: Sings parodies of common songs, but makes them about a Dysfunctional Family playing board games.
• Gangbangers: A group that makes metal remixes of rap songs, especially those of the Gangsta Rap variety, along with metal remixes of some old R&B, disco and funk songs. Currently uploading what they make to SoundCloud. True to their name, every member, past and present, is a gang member. Notably, their remix of Missy Elliott's "Lose Control" won the approval of Missy Elliott herself.
• Gas Mask Mooks: A mashup of an industrial act and a marching band in the aesthetic of "Martial Industrial". The band consists of seven constant members and a few more guest ones, and the lineup has changed over a dozen times, but since they always perform in their Gas Mask, Longcoat ensembles, few people manage to notice unless you tell them about it. Their shows often feature military-themed gimmicks, such as mortars firing pyrotechnics in the air or air defense searchlights being used to illuminate the stage, and their lyrics are divisive since nobody can quite figure out if their message is "War Is Hell" or "War Is Glorious".
• Geeky Turn-On: Rock band incorporating very nerdy interests into love songs. One of their memorable singles is Main Screen Turn On, which equates Freeware Games with online porn.
• Gemstone Assault: Death metal band with songs filled to the brim with fantasy lyrics.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Surf-rock band more popular in Germany than in their native United States.
• Getting Crap Past the Radar: A comedy group that plays covers of primarily rap and metal songs with explicit lyrics replaced by silly hints and rhymes. Their first two albums were titled Unusual Euphemism and Intercourse with You.
• Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul: Emo pop-rock. Heavily influenced by Linkin Park, but scorned by "real" rock fans for being too soft.
• Giallo: An Italian Progressive Rock group known for their work writing soundtracks for Exploitation Films.
• Giant Enemy Crab: A hardcore heavy metal band. Their album art often uses gritty imagery of insects, arachnids and crustaceans.
• Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: Psychedelic trip-hop, with sudden drops into bowel-rupturingly heavy dubstep.
• Gift of Song: Just send our band members four easy payments of $4.99 and we'll make a song for you or your loved one! Any recipent, any occassion! Order now and we'll throw in a free lyrics booklet! (It'd help if their music was any good.)
• Girl Next Door Turned Superstar: Upbeat J-pop that encourages young girls to follow their dreams.
• Girls with Guns: All-female country rock group, known for their pro-gun politics.
• Girly Bruiser: All-female Death Metal band who dress in Elegant Gothic Lolita Pimped-Out Dress.
• Give Geeks a Chance: A musical festival that showcases up and coming Nerdcore bands. It had a cult following but was shuttered after two seasons due to poor attendance.
• Glamour Failure: Thinking mostly female/transvestite gutterpunk band.
• Glass Cannon: Their songs glorify kitschy sculptures. Notable for only using hand-blown instruments with "cannon art," meaning that they used nothing but a cannon-shaped xylophone, cannon-emblazoned glasses and bottles filled with varying amounts of liquid, and a glass gong with an actual cannonball in the center for 5 years before getting more instruments. Their biggest hit is a cover of the 1812 overture, plus lyrics, which usually either crushes or pierces the guitarist's right foot in the end.
• Glorious Death: A Power Metal group known for their power ballads based on real life battles, including the American Civil War, the Battle of Largs, the Battle of the Hornburg and the infamous Tokyo Dome Riot of 1999.
• A God Am I: A narcissistic "band" that consists only of one man (the lead singer from Those Wacky Nazis, naturally) screaming into a microphone about how great he is. There are mirrors on stage at all times.^note Also, A God Is I is an album title by metalcore-hardcore band Merauder.
• Go Fast or Go Boom: Explosive speedcore that ends with a bang.
• God of Darkness: Goth death metal. Friendly Fandoms with God of Good.
• God of Good: Demon Hunter-esque Christian Metal band formed by the lead singer of Hijacked by Jesus after he returned to the Christian faith and broke that band up.
• Godzilla Threshold: Band whose songs are about horrible disasters and sung in the most absurdly chipper way possible. Often played alongside Funny Background Event, mostly for contrast and humor value. Broke up after the drummer died in the Pulse nightclub shooting shortly after they released a song about the September 11th attacks.
• Golden Saucer: Another sci-fi prog band. Don't like being called Golden Shower.
• Goldfish Poop Gang: Heavy, noisy rock. Clearly tries to be serious but comes off as cheesy.
• Go Mad from the Revelation: Dark and atmospheric progressive rock, heavily influenced by ambient and drone music. Lots of black and white imagery of people holding their heads in corners.
• Good and Evil for Your Convenience: A Germanic Industrial Metal band who's music themes around Friedrich Nietzsche and Postmodernism
• Good Bad Bugs: Children's band. The members dress up as "scary bugs" like spiders, and teach kids not to be so afraid of them. Their material is predictably barred from sale in Australia.
• Good Is Not Nice: Glam rock band from Bristol, UK is also known to be popular amongst fans and do good for society, but also writes album about dark stories and villains.
• A Good Name for a Rock Band: What happens when nerdcore gets meta.
• Gorn: Just your average death metal/grindcore band with extremely graphic and violent lyrics.
• Gory Discretion Shot: Pop punk harkening back to the days when 60s and 70s blues hard rock was turning into proto-metal.
• Goths Have It Hard: Emo band that's Wangst Played for Laughs. None of the members are actually goth.
• Götterdämmerung: heavy metal German band with the works of Wagner — and especially the Ring Cycle — hidden in their music. The lead singer — who is also the keyboardist — is an operatic tenor who once played various Wagnerian roles at Bayreuth.
• G-Rated Drug: Psychedelic band whose songs are written on everyday prescription drugs rather than cocaine or weed. Consist of several members of Disney Acid Sequence and Mushroom Samba. Used to perform with What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made On Drugs? but they formed a Super Group with Widget Series and Quirky Work.
• G-Rated Sex: Indie pop garage rock with sexual lyrics set to a bubble gum tune.
• Gratuitous Disco Sequence: A Disco revival band with costumes, style and choreography straight out of the '70s. Insist their songs are purely for entertainment with no deeper meaning. The group's name is sometimes confused with the title of their first hit, "Everything's Funkier with Disco".
• Gratuitous Japanese: An American J-Pop cover band whose repertoire consists mostly of anime theme songs.
• Gratuitous Latin:
  • A neo-classical, Gregorian-inspired band that does covers of the contemporary hits by translating them into Latin.
  • A German pseudo-medieval band with bagpipes and big drums.
• Gravity Is Only a Theory: El Paso, Texas-based scene-pop/neon pop-punk band known for their pop culture reference-laden lyrics, self-deprecating sense of humor and encouragement of Audience Participation.
• Greaser Delinquents: A Rockabilly group themed around 50's nostalgia.
• Grim Up North: A viking metal band that draws inspiration from Amon Amarth, Manowar, Bathory, and Grave Digger.
• Gunman with Three Names: Thrash metal band which specializes in singing about the misanthropy that drives mass murderers.
• Guide Dang It!: Metal band that records all of its songs with such a growl that you have to read the liner notes to have a clue what the singer's saying.
• Half-Human Hybrid: A small Nerdish group of Juillard Graduates that are well-known for their experimental crossbreeds of several musical genres, fans are there just to see what they come up with next. The former lead left to record under Interspecies Romance.
• Hammer and Sickle: A Hard Rock metal band with very Marxist themes in their music that college students write essays about
• Happy Fun Ball: A Japanese Idol Singer group that likes to subvert their image using gore and explicitly not-cute sexuality.
• Hate Sink: A hip hop group with rock elements who rhyme about the most detestable people and behaviours, with Despicable Vic on drums and rapping, Douchebag Dale on guitars and regular vocals, Vulgar Val on turntables, and Glenn on Bass.
• Hates Rich People: Very politically-loaded rap slamming billionaires.
• Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: Glam rock.
• The Heart: A one-hit wonder band from the Slayer/Anthrax Era of Hard Rock.
• Heartfelt Apology: Writes the sweetest, most tender Break Up Songs you'll ever hear.
• Heart of the Matter: Concept album about a mysterious being that sounds like an Eldritch Abomination, but actually turns out to be quite caring and just wants to have friends.
• Heavenly Blue: An Affectionate Parody of 70s Arena Rock.
• Heavy Meta: Why meta when you can Mind Screw? All their songs are about how awesome Heavy Metal is.
• Heävy Mëtal Ümlaut: Heavy metal. With umlauts.
• Heavy Mithril: A viking metal band known for their lyrics about both Norse mythology and Viking history. They dress up like Vikings at their stage shows.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: All their songs keep switching from death metal to bubblegum pop and then back again.
• Heel–Face Turn: A pop rock band formed from former Hope Crusher members (namely Krystof Eriksen and Stig Jenssen) that grew tired with band's attitude and decided to start their own production, donating 80% of their earnings to charity and speaking about the importance of kindness towards all living beings.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: A rock band trying to go mainstream.
• Hero's Slave Harem: Very family-unfriendly rock band. Their first album had to be recalled due to an explicit cover.
• Hidden Disdain Reveal: A speed metal band with lyrics about people who hold disdain towards others for a variety of reasons.
• Highly-Visible Ninja: J-pop influenced garage band whose members are in their early teens.
• High-Speed Missile Dodge: Middle-aged local metal band whose original songs are mostly about the muscle cars they owned when they were cheap used cars and wish they still did so they could sell them for a fortune at Barrett-Jackson. Lead singer and bassist are the fathers of the lead and bassist of Highly Visible Ninja.
• High-School Rejects: Three teenage nerds singing about, well, being high-school rejects.
• Hijacked by Jesus: Alt-metal rock group that used to be a Christian rock band till most of them left in disgust after the lead singer lost his faith. Broke up after the lead singer converted back to Christianity, he later formed God of Good.
• Hijacking Cthulhu: A riffy, sludgy stoner metal act in the vein of Kylesa, High on Fire, and Bongzilla.
• Hippie Index: A Psychedelic Rock group. They wear grey suits with Mid-Century Modern aesthetic that evokes the CIA and FBI. Their lyrics often revolve around The '60s and 70's, the Civil Rights Movement, the Free-Love Movement and the government institutions that opposed them. One album revolves itself around the Nixon Administration (with a song painting him as Satan and another about the Watergate Scandal). Their first hit song "Love Freak" defined their aesthetic and audience, a song being about a Dystopian 1950's America that made love a crime because McCarthy believed it to be a sign of Communism.
• Hitler Ate Sugar: A generic alternative rock band whose songs have nothing to do with that person, but due to the Word Salad Title they never escape the Moral Guardians.
• Hold the Line: A hard rock band with lyrical themes dealing with historical and fictional last stands.
• Hollywood Homely: A Spice Girls/Pussycat Dolls-like girl group that makes its gorgeous female members wear Tina-Fey-style glasses and schoolgirl uniforms (with rather short skirts) to incite the fanboys' lust.
• Hollywood Heart Attack:
  • Loud, nonsensical electronica
  • Alternatively, QOTSA-style rock.
• Hollywood Voodoo: An Electro Swing group with a "Louisiana Bayou/witchdoctor" theme. The group's male vocalist famously gives all interviews in a stereotypical New Orleans accent despite having been born and raised in a suburb of Dayton, Ohio, and the fact that none of the members are from The Big Easy or any surrounding Louisiana city. They're still popular in New Orleans despite this, though.
• Holy Pipe Organ: Christian band whose tracks largely feature the pipe organ.
• Homegrown Hero: An American country/soft rock duo with a specialty for composing deeply patriotic ballads and hymns about The Real Heroes and the bright side of Eagleland. At various points, they dominated the Top 10 with hits such as It's Up To Us Once More, God Called From D.C. and Son of the Shining City.
• Home Page: A peaceful adult alternative group that sings comforting songs about home and family.
• Hope Crusher: Extremely bleak Norwegian Black Metal with nihilistic lyrics which intend to drive listeners to complete and utter despair. Consisted of Sigvard "Silver Tongue" Holt on lead vocals, Krystof "Death Claw" Eriksen and Peter "Blood Reaper" Hagen on guitars, Aksel "War Monger" Jager on drums and backing vocals, and Stig "Voyd" Jenssen on bass, with Viktor "Sir Lew Cypher" Hedstrøm as their manager. Supposedly worshippers of Satan, this group believes that all humans are scum, and accordingly should just give in to their evil impulses. When a religious fanatic shot Cypher to death, they responded by sending the gunman their entire discography. Has remained on hiatus after Silver Tongue was given a life sentence for burning a crowded church, killing a pastor and several congregants.
• Hope Spot: Emo, with songs that seem like they're going to lighten up but never do.
• The Horde (AKA "Horde"): An eight piece Norwegian Black Metal band whose lyrics are about the atrocities of the minions of numerous evil overlords, including Satan himself.
• Horrible History Metal: A metal band that, as their name implies, writes songs about history, in particular, historical battles, historical figures known for their high body counts, and historical torture methods. They play a variety of metal genres, mostly power metal, speed metal, thrash metal, and groove metal.
• Horny Devils (now defunct): Songs full of risque lyrics and Satanism-related lyrics.
• Horny Vikings: A wannabe heavy metal band full of nerdy high schoolers, except for the bassist, who is a beefy football player. Because of his size, the other members force him to dress up as Thor at their gigs (which definitely aren't PTA meetings nor Wild Teen Parties). Currently on tour with Teens Are Monsters.
• Horror Hippies: A Noise Rock/Groove Metal garage band that formed as a knockoff of Rob Zombie, their whole "thing" being about Hippie communes and drug-cults.
• Hot-Blooded: EXTREME Power metal à la DragonForce.
• Ho Yay: Bubblegum pop boy band. Instead of love songs, their music generally focuses on extolling close male friendship. First album cover features the band members in their boxers, having a pillow fight.
• Humanoid Abomination: Noodly technical death metal band signed to Unique Leader Records.
• Human Jungle Gym: Acrobats who sing about their childhood memories.
• Humongous Mecha: J-Pop/Metal cross. Their only known video before being annihilated by copyright lawyers replaced the male backup singer with Skull One and the other band members with an Aevestalis on guitar and the Gurren Lagann on drums. The female lead remained unchanged.
• I Am the Noun: A crossover thrash band with lyrical themes about corruption invarious professions, be it politics, the police, or the military.
• I Call It "Vera": Slightly dark (but not enough so to be emo) indie band whose songs, while catchy, have the unfortunate tendency to all sound alike.
• The Ice Crystals: Lo-fi music mainly based on Image Songs for ice-themed anime characters.
• Idiot Ball: Pessimistic punk group.
• I Fought the Law and the Law Won: All they do is cover that one song in a variety of different genres. No-one outside of the band knows how their career is still going.
• I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!: Indecisive Parody of Riot Grrrl punk bands.
• "I Hate" Song: They really don't like music, but it's their only source of income.
• Image Source: A J-Pop group famous for their breathtaking album covers. They are in a rivalry with Video Source and Quote Source.
• Images Without a Source: An American Alternative Rock / Nu Metal / whatever band famous for their minimalist visuals, minimalist melodies and really loud political statements. Remember The White Album? They had "The Grey Album".
• Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: A geeky indie band that is legendary for their inexplicably persistent mediocrity; The singer is perpetually out of key, the guitarist botches chord progressions on a regular basis, and the drummer is constantly missing beats.
• Impersonation Gambit: Multi-genre band who has become infamous for posing as and advertising themselves as much more successful groups to draw in bigger crowds at shows.
• Impossible Pickle Jar: A comedy Rock & Roll band that would throw in random polka-solos and - as a part of the sketch - will be playing right as the band they are opening for will walk in and interrupt as if the opening band was there without their permission. The band's lead singer will then make the excuse that they were "leaving their instruments/mic warm for them." Was on hiatus for a bit after Omnicidal Maniac nearly killed them when they tried this when they opened for them at a show in Texas.
• Improvised Bandage: Pop punk. Their songs are about never giving up, even if life's beating you up and pushing you around.
• Incendiary Exponent: Started by some of the old members of Hot-Blooded, who decided that they wanted their shows to be flashier.
• Inconsistent Coloring: Each band member is supposed to be recognized by their signature outfit color: the drummer is red, the bassist is green, and the singer is blue. However, the exact shades of each color differ with each live show. Done to enhance their songs, which are about embracing individuality and not letting one thing define who you are.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Parodies Disney-sponsored bands, keeping the same cheery pop feel. All their songs are full of double entendres and dirty jokes.
• Industrial World: Industrial metal.
• Informal Eulogy: A Indecisive Parody of Pop Punk bands.
• Insane Troll Logic: A heavy metal band with confusing logical fallacies in their lyrics. They have the largest hams in music since Van Halen. Not to be confused with the Insane Clown Posse.
• Instant Cosplay Surprise: A J-Pop band whose members often wear cosplays from various anime. Also known for setting up Flashmobs in the most unexpected places, sometimes dragging unwitting passerbies into costumes.
• Interspecies Romance: After the first three albums came out, the lead of Half Human Hybrids became so popular that she left to form her own band, with lyrics involving Mars Needs Women and Beast and Beauty themes. Some suspect very strong Author Appeal here.
• In Touch with His Feminine Side: Thrash metal band that does kickass metal covers of songs by boy bands and girl groups. Formed by the drummer of Incorruptible Pure Pureness after that band broke up.
• Inventional Wisdom: New wave. The band members all wear white lab coats and their instruments look like lab equipment. Each song describes a potential new invention they would want to see.
• The Invisible Band: A darker progressive rock band, with self-referential lyrics.
• Invisible Streaker: A Punk Rock group known for stripping naked during their shows. They got their start as a bunch of teenagers from a nudist colony, and their songs are all about Anarcho-naturism and sticking it to the Fashion bourgeoisie that forces modesty laws onto the masses.
• Iron Maiden: A heavy metal band — wait a second...
• Iron Woobie: Indie rock Five-Man Band who run from power ballads to thrash metal stylings, famed for albums that go from one end of the sliding scales to the other. The name was given to them by the doctor who ran the group session they met in. Every album is dedicated to "Dr. Rob" and one other bright spot in a band member's life. In general, the band's sadder songs are honest reflections of some of the bullshit they've been through— and their Awesome Music come in celebration of even the smallest victories. Known for their honesty and candor in interviews. Started "the tour that shouldn't work" with Attract Mode, My Hero, Zero, Fan of Underdog, Incorruptible Pure Pureness and Manic Pixie Dream Girl. Despite early technical issues, it worked.
• Island of Misfit Everything: An angsty Alternative Metal band that appeals to teenage boys.
• I Take Offence to That Last One: Punk. Last song in an album chooses Acceptable Targets to rip on. Currently on hiatus after they were nearly lynched for making fun of Warrior Cats.
• It's All My Fault: A Shallow Parody of emo bands. All of their songs are about the same thing: A desire to die. Every single member of the band claims they're convinced that their lives are meaningless and worthless, and they blame everything on themselves. No one is allowed to bring any sharp object to their concerts, and ambulances are kept ready at all times in case any of them attempt to kill themselves on stage, while EMTs and doctors are given the best seats at their concerts. There have been several incidents in the past, one of notice was when the lead singer attempted to drown himself in his own tears. He did not die, but, suffice to say, it did not end well.
• It's Popular, Now It Sucks!: An underground music band that tears apart popular songs by mocking them viciously in their lyrics. When they themselves became popular, they start mocking themselves. Currently on hiatus and in hiding for making fun of K-pop artists.
• It Was His Sled: Folk group with a focus on story songs. Whether or not you've heard their songs before, you know how they're going to end.
• Izchak's Wrath: Punk, with the trademark logo "+)m" emblazoned on their instruments. Nobody has heard of them or understand their lyrics except you and your nerd friends. Songs include "Do You Want Your Possessions Identified?" and "I Believe It Not!"
• Jade-Colored Glasses: Indie group whose songs go against mainstream societal norms.
• Jaded Washout: An emo band whose members dress all in jade green, all of whom play washboard.
• Jerkass Sue: An all-girl band with punk overtones, but whose music has been watered down for commercial radio play. Think Avril Lavigne.
• Jesus Was Way Cool: Its members are all secular and have never read more than a few pages of the Bible, but nonetheless try to emulate Christian Rock - keyword being "try". Their wacky inaccuracies can veer into So Bad, It's Good territory.
• Job-Stealing Robot: An AI band that plays focus-grouped songs that somehow gets paid more than human song-writers.
• Joined Your Party: EDM music meant to be played at raves.
• Joke Item: A middle-aged couple who write comedy songs together.
• The Juggernaut: American speedcore band. You can't hear the lyrics because of the metal growl and severely overkicked drum machine, but they all revolve around a giant living planet that the lead singer thinks actually exists.
• Jumping the Shark:
  • '60s-influenced rock whose first single was titled "I Fell in Love With You From Across the Aquarium Hall".
  • Alternatively, a band that does covers of unpopular songs by popular artists.
• Jungle Princess: Vaguely jazzy electronica that makes extensive use of sampled sounds, including human voices singing nonsense words in close harmony.
• Just Here for the Free Snacks: Pop music. Legend has it, they only show up to Dinner and a Show concerts to eat. They only released one album, I Was Told There Would Be Cake, and then disbanded after Dinner and a Show no longer held concerts in their city. Some people think Denied Food as Punishment pushed them into the decision.
• Just Plane Wrong:
  • Jay Jay the Jet Plane nerd rock, where all of the band members are dressed as the show's main characters, and the lyrics defy all aeronautical logic. Originally named Artistic License – Physics, but when Artistic License – Military's manager sent them a cease and desist order, they changed their name.
  • Alternatively Ace Combat nerd folk rock, in the vain of Dos Gringos who sing about the life and the expierence of Strangereal fighter pilots, those of whom are left in the shadow of the token bullshit Ace Pilot of the war.
• Kavorka Man: Hard rock band whose style and aesthetics are a Genre Throwback to old-school Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll, but with one difference: the members are all considered ugly as sin and yet are surrounded by hot women.
• Key Confusion: There's no set key to play their songs in. They just kind of switch between whatever works during their performances.
• Kick the Dog: Breakdown-heavy deathcore band with lyrics about being a total asshole and engaging in petty acts of cruelty for absolutely no reason whatsoever.
• Kid from the Future: Tween bubblegum-pop band that tries to be nerdy.
• Killer Cop: A groove metal band with lyrics dealing with police officers, real and fictional, who have killed in one capacity or another. They once released a cover of Warrant's "Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Kill 'Em All (now defunct): Very gory rock that has all the characters mentioned in the songs die.
• Kill Sat: Hardcore.
• Kill Tally: Tally Hall hate band. Criticized for being a Shallow Parody.
• Kill the Cutie: Riot Grrrl, deeply critical of the value society puts in beauty.
• Kill It with Fire: American rock/metal band. Their first album, the self-titled Kill It with Fire (2000) went to number 1 in five countries and had been translated into seven languages. Their next album and titular single, Where I Was Born and Razed (2003) went to number 1 in ten countries. After that came third album Playing with Fire (2004), another chart-topper. Their next album, Our Dragons Are Different (2006) also reached number 1, but at a slower rate. Their darkest album yet, Out of the Inferno (2008) has become both a hit and a major point of disagreement amongst the band. However, their latest, Apocalypse How (2009), is sure to hit the top of the charts. Parodied by Weird Al Yankovic as "Great Balls of Fire!".
• King in the Mountain: Hard Celtic rock, sort of like Boiled in Lead.
• Kirk's Rock: A rock band whose music vacillates between sweeping epics and gritty, thrashing solos, sometimes within the same song. For some reason, their lyrics consist entirely of Star Trek quotes.
• Kiss of the Vampire: a semi-goth/punk girl band. The band has an inexplicable fixation on vampires, and every music video and concert features at least one member of the band being bitten on the neck by another member. Outspoken in their hatred of Twilight. Briefly went on hiatus after the mid-to-late-2000s/early-2010s vampire fad ended, but have since reunited with a new album entitled Immortality Through Memory.
• Klingon Promotion: Completely nerdcore, shows up to every performance in Klingon garb and makeup. Broke up after the bassist took the band's name to heart... but later reunited with a new bassist.
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Heavy Mithril Affectionate Parody band.
• Kung-Fu Jesus: Christian comedy-rock band whose members dress up in gis. Their music videos are edits of old kung-fu movies and other martial arts films, usually editing them to preach a religious aesop or make them align with a specific Bible verse.
• Lactating Male: Comedy Rock.
• Lady Macbeth: Male Band, Female Singer Celtic metal band.
• Lady of War: An all-girl power metal band, with the lead singer being a striking ex-opera soprano. Thematic similarities in their lyrics to Manowar have been noted.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Sings about breaking up with girlfriends and forgetting about them. Alternatively, could be an album name.
• Last Disc Magic: Neo-psychedelic trance.
• The Last DJ:
  • Stage name of a DJ with an overblown ego who refuses to bow to demands. Currently busking.
  • Big-name IDM artist who's known for being very, very theatrical and over-the-top.
• Last Stand: A heavy metal band with lyrical themes dealing with last stand battles.
• Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: Comedy/parody. They cram their songs as full of references as they can. The highlight of a LFC concert is seeing which character the lead singer dresses as. Indiana Jones Montana Smith seems to be his favorite.
• Lazy Artist: Calypso band with mostly blank album covers.
• Leave the Camera Running: Soft indie folk, always name-dropped by indier-than-thou hipsters.
• Letters 2 Numbers: Trip Hop-influenced Alternative Rock who's Hair Metal-inspired lyrical content and image has gained them a devoted cult following of party-loving high-schoolers.
• Lethal Joke Character: Neo-glam. All band members perform in "creepy clown" makeup.
• LEGO Genetics: Comedy.
• Lesbian Mouse Babies: Riot Grrrl garage rock.
• Life Imitates Art: Indie folk rock band worshipped by audiophiles and Pitchfork Magazine.
• Light 'em Up: An Electronic Music artist, named and famous for the well choreographed light shows in his live performances.
• Lipstick Lesbian: An all-female punk-rock group famous for having an all LGBT band line-up, having paved the way for gay-rights in the 90's.
• Little Miss Badass: All-female punk-rock/alternative group, very young-looking and often show little emotion, but whose songs deal with mature issues in a mature way.
• Little Miss Snarker: Hip-hop duo composed of two cute but wise beyond their years teenage girls, known for their incisively humorous takes on contemporary popular culture and social issues.
• Live on Stage!: Epic Broadway-style musical numbers.
• Living Prop: New wave muzak. You don't really tend to notice if it's there or not.
• Loads and Loads of Characters: Eccentric Long Runner electro-pop band (somewhere between They Might Be Giants and Devo) which has gone through over NINE THOUSAND lineup changes, including returning to the original lineup twice. The third drummer went on to form Cast Herd.
• Logical Fallacies: A very odd, synth-heavy band whose first album Global Warning is composed almost entirely of things that wouldn't seem out of place on the Surreal Theme Tune page.
• "London, England" Syndrome: Punk group from that London who suggests that Paris is in France, Berlin in Germany, Rome in Italy, etc.
• Looks Like Cesare: Deathrock borrowing a musical page from Alien Sex Fiend, with their stage image relying on the campiness of early horror films.
• Lore Codex: Rock and roll whose lyrics describe fictional lands, and detail the band members as fictional characters who live there.
• Lotsa People Try to Dun It: Gangsta Rap band with sociopolitically charged lyrics about how hostile today's society is.
• Loud of War: Affectionate Parody of Rated M for Manly heavy metal.
• Love Dodecahedron: Rather emo, sing about unrequited love a lot, most of the band/managers/roadies/etc are in more than one relationship.
• Love Doodles: Silly little songs about romance. Most lyrics were found in the lead singer's notebook in middle school.
• Love Is a Crime: An American Alternative Rock / Nu Metal / whatever band whose melancholic and morbid sound places them firmly in the Goth category.
• Love Letter: Each song is written in the form of a letter addressed "to" a person whom the bandmates admire. Can range from sweet, to creepy, to bitter and spiteful.
• Lovecraft Lite: A power metal band formed by the bassist and the drummer of Cosmic Horror Story after they quit over creative disagreements with the rest of the band.
• Love Martyr: A Italian Gothic Metal band who sing mostly about how their female lead singer was in a particularly bad relationship.
• Loving a Shadow: Emo revival band from Upstate New York known for their encouragement of Audience Participation and lyrics laden with 2000s pop culture references.
• Lowest Common Denominator: Really generic Punk Rock that's So Okay, It's Average. They can be satirical on occasion, but they never delve much deeper than a Shallow Parody. You've listened to a fair share of their songs, but remember nothing of them.
• Lyrical Dissonance: Hip-hoppy band with disturbing lyrics. Recent hits include "I Can't Love You (Until You Fall Asleep)" and "Washing My Socks (With Your Mother's Blood)"
• Lysistrata Gambit: A girl group who write feminist lyrics and melodies that somehow manage to be both catchingly poppy and hauntingly ethereal.

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