bikz wrote:The Nightside Bikithan Cat Collective - xNightsidex + bikz + cat band + The Grand Society Collective (they were a collaboration group back in t'day, as was TNBCC).
Cool! I didn't know that I inspired you to name something.
Gorloche - I like to tell people that it is a portmanteau of two Gaelic words, one being the word for silly and another being the word for lake or a body of water. When taken as "silly body of water", it acts as a self-deprecating joke about people, as we are made primarily of water. So it becomes a witty wordplay thing. The real story is that in class, both before college and now, I would doodle random things to keep my mind busy while I was being bored to death, as most do or did. I drew the Grim Reaper with a backpack and called it Kryolotor, Teenage Death. I then wrote down the name Gorloche as a similar name to come up with something for, but I never got around to it. I use it for online stuff because it is distinctive, unique, and easy to remember for most people (the opposite of Gilder).
Enoch - They were originally called Azazel, which is a name for Satan in Judeo-Christian mysticism. Enoch is a figure who, according to Abrahamic myth, ascended bodily into heaven on a fiery chariot. Also, in the occult text The Book of Enoch, he describes the language of the angels, Enochian. I changed the name to Enoch because he's an interesting mythological figure (I'm not religious, but Abrahamic mysticism is terribly interesting to me). Originally, their first stuff was primarily based around mysticism until I branched out (one was a concept album about someone reaching Solomon's temple in their dreams and some stuff along with that, another had the album and track names all in Enochian, and the third was based around the tribes of Israel).
Sudan - I was in sort of a political mood at the time and was writing really terribly socially-conscious poetry inspired by the later-period work of Death. I wrote one thing called "Sudan" that I thought was alright, so I decided to make a new band that would be a metal band and have that name. If you know anything about Sudanese politics, you'd know why someone would write something scoially conscious about it and be able to get away with just calling it "Sudan".
The Theosophical Society - This goes along with the mysticism theme that I built up around Enoch. The Theosophical Society was a real mystic spiritual group of ritual magicians, occultists and mystics in the late 19th and early 20th century. The name is just so fantastic that I had to use it for a name once I decided to make a supergroup out of Sudan and Enoch. I highly recommend Wikiing the society, because it is all terribly interesting, especially if you have a passing interest in the history of occult groups. It's all pretty bogus, but really interesting. Releases from all three bands are referred to as releases by the Theosophical Society Collective because that is what they essentially are; a collective of bands recording and releasing music under different names dependent on who they are recording with at the time.
The Grand Society Collective - The name was a reference to the scope of the band (comprised of: the Theosophical Society, 10 members; Herr Fische, 8 members; Waterlelie, 6 or 7 members) and has obvious ties to the Theosophical Society name. It was meant to be similar for branding purposes but have Grand to signify both size and quality. Short version: It sounded similar but better.
Pharaohs - I was thinking about Sun Ra, a jazz saxophonist who also lead an orchestra (his Arkestra) and had his band dress like space pharaohs (he was from Saturn, you see), as well as Pharaoh Sanders, another famous jazz saxophonist. This made me think about a jazz band comprised of people dressing as pharaohs, with those bitchin' hats and white-and-gold robes and all to touch on these various references to Egypt in jazz and it struck me as
totally sweet. Then I realized I had jazz-trained musicians in my fake, fake bands and decided to make it.
Tremors - I wanted to make a grindcore side-project band and this sounded the most grindcore without also sounding stupid.
Waters (defunct) - A reference to Roger Waters and what I imagine the aural texture of water to be, kind of spacious but bubbling almost. This reflected the major influences on the band as I saw it. I have not remade them in the new game nor do I plan to.
RJ2 (defunct) - When my friend gave me his two accounts, one was named Raptorjesus (which became Waters) and the other was named Raptorjesus2. I didn't like how the names sounded dumb, so i changed the first but couldn't think of another for the second band. So, I just shortened it to initials to tide me over until I got one. But I liked how RJ2 looked and it kind of reminded me of R2-D2, so I just left it as is.
