Most Ironic Band Names?

Name bands whose names just don't reflect in their style of music ...

For example: Eagles of Death (David Grohl's side project - certainly not a death metal band)

Urge Overkill's another

Teddybears

They came out of the Nordic black metal scene. They called themselves Teddybears to be different. Although, their music has changed a bit over the years to include more electronica elements. But the initial use was way different.

This is a very hard question, hmmmm.

Every Time I Die - you can only die once unless you're a cat
Machines of Loving Grace - no love in these lyrics!
Death Cab For Cutie - with a name like this, I was expected something a LOT harder.
Olympic Death Squad - sort of like your example, this band was a side project of the band Unrest and is anything but death metal.
Pop Will Eat Itself - there was no way I'd pick them for a techno-industrial band.
My Chemical Romance - <gag> super ironic considering none of the members have any known substance abuse issues.

MachPen - It's a notable absence for sure.

from first to last

such a bad name

and the hush sound..music is supposed to be noise not hushed

The Cult ~ formally The Southern Death Cult
nothing particularly southern or cultish about them.

Ministry. It sounds like a Christian rock band..but um... not so much.
Barenaked Ladies - I don't think I'd want to see any of these guys barenaked.

Kissy Face Fashion Faux-Pas. They sound like they'd be a dance/pop group, but they are in fact a grindcore band.

LED ZEPPELIN

iron butterfly

Yeh
Iron Butterfly for sure

I have to agree with Rckts, DCFC does sound like a deathmetal or something band name....
but I think Scary Kids Scaring Kids is an ironic name, because its a line from an 80's movie, so one would think there would be some 80's influence, and the name itself makes one think it would be a little more deathcore soundng

One word: Slaughter.

That's just GOT to be a thrash metal band.... right?







NP: "Much Too Late for Goodbyes" - Julian Lennon

30 seconds to mars- it doesn't take 30 seconds to get to mars
marylin manson- it's marilyn monroe and charlie manson, the murderer so we have an actress and a murderer, great...

can't think of any about reflecting the style of music.....but

Ben Folds Five.........there are only 3 members

Something Corporate. Shitty pop-punk band. Speaks for itself.

I gotta give it up for My Bloody Valentine.

The Swans.

Graceful, elegant, floating feather-soft and delicately dreamy...

...ummmmmm, not.

to Rckets: actually gerard way from my chemical romance did have a substance abuse.

The Grateful Dead - For some reason, I always expected them to sound metal until I actually heard them.

Phish - Always expected them to sound phreaky and psychedelic, but actually, I think they sound kind of like The Greatful Dead.

chiodos
the devil wears prada
30 seconds to mars
senses fail
panic! at the disco

How could anyone miss And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead? You'd think they were a Cannibal Corpse type band, Umm no. Somehow they wound up on CMJ's loud rock chart many years ago, and when I called the record company(I thought the name sounded cool, oh yeah I was a college radio music director at the time) to get a copy, they said it wasn't what I thought. Sure enough they popped up on a video game soundtrack some years later, and they were right.