r/Bandnames 3d ago

Name Request Help us, I'm desperate.

I apologise in advance for bad english, it's not my native language.

I'm in the middle of a crisis right now. Me and my band can't agree on a name. We've tried for months now, but we just can't decide.

At first when we started we called ourselves "Navnlaus", which is norwegian for "nameless". It started as a funny joke (won't go into detail on it now but it was funny) but we soon grew tired of it. And after some negative reactions on the name and people thinking it wasn't a good bandname, we started feeling the same way about it. We decided to change our name, and after some thinking we went for a variation on the norse word for fjord "angr".

Our name was then "Angar" for a few weeks but some of us thought it sounded too hars, or that it sounded like we regretted something (norwegian word for regret is "anger"), so we decided to change it again. But now we cant find something that we all like. We have come up with some potential names, like "Varde" which is norwegian for "cairn", or "Tundra" (yes, the biome), but there is still a little tension around them.

I come to reddit as a last resort. If I don't find anything good here i probably won't find anything anywhere. Help me please, I'm desparate.

Sorry for the already long read, but if you can hang on just a little longer I'll give you some info about us:

  • We're a band made up of highschoolers from norway, just past the polar circle.
  • We usually play music within the rock/metal/noice-genres but not always, we're flexible when it comes to genres.
  • Something we do in almost all of our music is taking elements from nordic folk-music (we have a fiddle, and other nordic instruments eventually) so you may call most of our songs folkrock.

When it comes to a name I don't need it to be serious, I don't need it to be goofy or funny either. Heck, it doesen't even have to be something related to what we do (but if it can be I wouldn' complain (but again it doesen't have to be)). Anything would be better than nothing at this point.

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