Metal band name generator
Ten names per roll. Each one shows up with its own record: .com, Bandcamp and SoundCloud checked by us, same-name bands pulled from Metal Archives and Discogs. A source we could not reach is marked not checked — we do not call those clean.
Our own lexicon. Names we could not fully check are held back — 121 of 220 this run — not shown as clean.
Tomb of Glass
OPENFurnace of Grief
OPENChoking Cathedral
OPENBleak Wolves
OPENGranite Abyss
OPENWound of Light
OPENCinder Wolves
OPENVermin Ossuary
OPENChoking Choir
OPENWhat the record means
Five checks per name. Four run against registries and APIs we can call on any given day; the fifth is Metal Archives, and it goes down — as it did while this page was built.
| Check | How it is done | Reads |
|---|---|---|
| .com | Verisign RDAP lookup for the name with spaces removed | free / taken |
| Bandcamp | name.bandcamp.com answers with a store page or a signup redirect | handle free / taken |
| SoundCloud | soundcloud.com/name answers 200 or 404 | handle free / taken |
| Metal Archives | Site search for the exact name; each hit opened and dated | 0–n same-name bands, newest year |
| Discogs | Public API artist search, exact title match only | 0–n same-name artists |
Handles are checked on the name written as one word. A store page under a different spelling is not counted here. Metal Archives sits behind a bot wall, so when it refuses us the row says not checked instead of free.
Names that are already gone
Same-name bands found this run. A hit on Metal Archives means a real band already runs this name — that is the only site that covers the metal underground end to end.
| Name | MA same-name | Genre | Country | Discogs | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Graveborn | 2 | Blackened Death Metal | United States | 1 | MA |
| Bone Tomb | 1 | Black Metal | United Kingdom | — | MA |
| Burning Pyre | 1 | Power Metal | Germany | — | MA |
| Charnel Abyss | 1 | Thrash Metal | United States | — | MA |
| Charnel Altar | 1 | Death/Black/Doom Metal | Australia | 1 | MA |
| Wolfsbane | 1 | Heavy Metal | United Kingdom | — | MA |
| Burning Furnace | — | — | — | 1 | Discogs |
| Burning Hammer | — | — | — | 1 | Discogs |
Free on every layer
67 of the 99 names on this page passed all five checks. These are the first of them.
- Hollow Sepulchre
- Tomb of Glass
- Furnace of Grief
- Choking Cathedral
- Bleak Wolves
- Granite Abyss
- Wound of Light
- Cinder Wolves
- Vermin Ossuary
- Choking Choir
- Frozen Vigil
- Cinder Gallows
- Gilded Wound
- Withered Coffin
- Sepulchral Serpent
- Howling Spire
- Blackened Lantern
- Bone Sepulchre
- Bloodied Spire
- Salt Cairn
- Pale Coffin
- Burning Gallows
- Basalt Wound
- Sable Abyss
- Rising Choir
- Burning Marrow
- Devouring Crown
- Cinder Furnace
- Hollow Altar
- Granite Choir
- Void Coffin
- Pale Reliquary
- Pale Serpent
- Salt Gallows
- Sepulchral Reliquary
- Bloodied Sepulchre
Why this exists
A generator that hands you an unclaimed name is worth more than one that hands you a thousand names already in use. Metal is the worst case: the same three words get recombined for decades, and a new band finds out too late that four others got there first.
So every name here is run through the same five checks before it reaches you, and the whole list is re-run every month. Names that were free last month and are taken now move into the table above. The list is dated, and the date matters.
No account, no email gate, no “premium names”. Roll as many times as you want.