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Whenever I hear a cool phrase somewhere, I like to exclaim "That would make a cool band name". This page is a list of such names.

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The Creators It is cool because it actually sounds like a band name. Also, bands create music. Joe Pseudonym
Creepersam i went to the cinema with my friend and his new girlfriend, Sam. We went to see "Jeepers Creepers 2", my mates girlfriend Sam bears a startling resemblence to the "creeper". tomtom
Creeping Death Assuming Metallica doesn't sue you (greedy sell outs) this'd be pretty damn cool. Jimmy
Crepsley105 We came up with this cuz we were all reading the same book, and there's a character in it called Mr. Crepsley who we thought was cool. The 105 is cuz we're all roughly 15, and we wanted 3 figures in it... like Blink 182 :) lol.. we're sad, i know :D Leah
Crestfallen I heard it in an Avenged Sevenfold song, the full phrase was "Crestfallen Man." meta!m!ke
Criminal Negligee A play on the phrase "Criminal Negligence". A couple of hot female singers would make it apt. Rick
Crimson my friend's fish's name was crimson so we thought that would be a cool band name. crimson: a deep reddish colour. elina (not my real name)
Crimson Clover I'm from Alabama I saw a RED clover one day.. sweet huh? Bassist
Crimson Dynamo One of Iron Man's foes from the Cold War era. Basically the Soviet version of Iron Man. Joe
Crimson Glow Ha ha, that's a hair color. My boyfriend likes it. angel
Crimson Regrets hey this came from an Evanescence song... Amy sings "...im pouring crimson regret and betrayl" and i love it so. in the words of the dad in my big fat greek wedding. there you go. Lindz
Crimson Shed It's a cool name for a Christian band. Blood is a crimson color. Tony P
Crippling Pun A parody name for Killing Joke, but could be a New Wave band featuring all handicapped people. newave
Crisis In The Corner Because every one has a little fear of being left out, but when it happens, a crisis is born. SHAUN
Critical Condition I was sitting in driver's ed. and we were watching a movie and it was talking about some chic who got into an accident and who was in critical condition....it was funny too because two of my other band members were in there and we didn't have a name and i just looked at them and said yea this is the one halfnhalf
Crooked Bush My girlfriends and I were watching a 70's porn and this chick came out with her pubes all crooked. I said, "What's with the crooked bush?" and our all-female band was born. Joelle
Crooked Cheese Stick It jus sounds punk. I was eating cheese sticks, and I said mine was crooked. My friend thought it sounded cool and thought I was talking about a band. Cameron
Crooked-Headed Squirrel With A*** Problems A nickname for my friend at school. He has a crooked head and ANGER problems, but someone misinterpreted us. Junior
Cross-Eyed Cyclops Oxymoron!!! I like to think of random questions like " What if a cyclops was cross-eyed?" or "Why do drive-through ATMs have Braille?" (Braille- the little dots that blind people read.) Gabe
Crossive Liquid I believe the word is actually "corrosive." It basically means a destructive chemical. Jinx
Crossive Liquid I was pouring some metho into a bottle the other day. I've seen the words "this is a crossive liquid", so I thought it was a cool name for a band. Jordan Allen
CrossTown Traffic From the kickass Henrix song...great name for a rock band! seretha f.
crossWalk My friends and I made up this name for our camp band, so I think it's pretty cool. It also sounds cool, but after all, don't all one word band names sounds cool? ^^ J.i.A.o
Crotch Potatoes Play on "couch potato", of course. It sounds pretty gross and possibly gay. That makes it cool, right? Claude Prez
Crotchless Parakeets We came up with this name in a Mad Libs game (adjective)(plural noun) and we never forgot it! Jessica
Crouching Woman, Hidden Cucumber We're an all girl fourpiece! You do the math. [Ed.'s note: I'd rather not!] sal harvey
Crowley's Dead After the weird cult figure Alistair Crowley who committed suicide. weird bloke. cool name. harry
Crown Of Thorns or C.O.T. It's a combination of P.O.D.,Sonic Flood,Creed,and Evanesceance. Crown of thorns is a christian band. Crown of thorns is what Jesus Christ had on his head whin he was cruseifide on the cross.  Peter Cunningham
CRS Band Can't Remember S*** It came to me as our little three piece band was practicing one day.... We would get half way through a song, and someone would forget the words or the next chord. Cody
Crucial Pain someone said it at school today in a geography lesson. i was trying not to laugh coz i didn't wanna make my friend feel bad about being so dumb... then i thought it would make a good band name. hamsta
Crucifying Apples My friend and I were wondering why they chose crucifiction to kill Jesus. My friend asked, "Why not crucify...I don't know...apples instead?" Thus, Crucifying Apples was born. tyler
Cruel I was on a car trip and thinking of all the cars made with three letters and the third letter is X. I managed to get through all combinations (it was a long trip), and CRUEL just stood out as really cool sounding.  chris
Cruel Rejection I came up with this when I was talking to my friend about rejecting people and how cruel it can be. It is such a satisfying thing to see people in tears. Megan L.
Crush-Kill-Destroy From one of the classic's, Lost In Space D. Dasher
Crushblood I think it's funny. All an XCORE-METAL band needs for a name in a couple of violent words with no space between them. Matt
Crushing Diamonds makes it sound like the band could do anyhting  jo
The Crushing Thumb of Oppression 4 college guys road-tripping across country lamenting about the man keeping us down. Rufus
Crushing Zucchinis A more suggestive version of 'Smashing Pumpkins' Kent Clark
Crusin For A Brusin how many of our moms told us this? punk band/tough guy hardcore band chantz
Cry Red Tears This is what Vicious said to an elder before he killed him on the episode, "The Real Folk Blues Part 1" of Cowboy Bebop. I always thought it was a good name and always will. Darius Cloud
The Crying Shames I see a retro cheeze lounge act that does Serge Gainsborough covers and originals in the style of Doo-wop. - Everybody in blue tuxedo shirts naturally! millam
Cryo My dad works for a space place and he said cryo and he used it like cool so i asked him what? he said cryo really means cool as in cold so it just sounds cool too. d QEDA
Crystal Sugar Orgasm  My friend David was talking about the rush one gets when he or she downs a few sugar packets. I asked him if it was like a crystal sugar orgasm...thus, greatness was born.  eliza
Crystal Swan Saw it in a short horror story as a character's name (the character was the sister of a pop singer named "Singer Swan"....could be a pseudonym, or maybe the name of a synth-techno band... Syntania
CSD (Complimentary Steak Dinner) A lot of people would show up for (a) Complimentary Steak Dinner... Shattered Faith Rules
Cthulhu Anybody ever read H.P. Lovecraft? This would rule for a satanic death metal band. IHaveNoBrain
CTRL, ALT and DELETE. When stuff goes wrong, those are the best buttons ever. ninja
Cubemate In the world of cubicles, if you share one with some one else they are your cubemate. Neato. Stace
Cubic Sphere I wrote a program that combines words to make new words. When I saw Cubic Sphere, I thought it was cool because it's impossible for a cube to be a sphere. Patrick Coston
Cue I like the letter "q," and this just crossed my mind while I was doing homework. millalilla
Culpable Deniability Just a little saying I like... Unsichtbar
The Culprits The Culprits originated when the other band members and I were under arrest for vandalizing the neighborhood. When the cop who found us asked us who the culprit was, it stuck with us. a.j. esterige
Cultivated Bitterness At a bar looking through descriptions of wine and came up with this! barb
Cultural Collision Because I had to do a project for a youth group and it was about outreach to other cultures. Evita PAtrick
Cunning Stunts After a few alcoholic beverages, people are bound to reverse the "St" and the "C". kawboy
Cupcake Divas Whenever i think of something as sweet as a diva i think of a sweet little cupcake-It may be cheesy but check the really stupid ones out on this page!!! Erin
Curdle Overnight I came downstairs one morning and found a warm carton of milk staring me in the face, that should have been in the fridge. I thought to myself, could this curdle overnight? I started to chuckle. I love the sound of the phrase - "Curdle Overnight"  dave miller- manny
Cure For Apathy A band that no one seemed to show interest in. Chelsie
The Cure For Hypersomnia I came up with this band name because when my buddy and I were labeling our religous school folders; he called his "The Cure For Insomnia" because it was so boring, it would put you to sleep. I thought that the opposite would be a good band name. Therefore, I'm writing it right now. Anonymous Force Of Cool
Curiosity Under Ninty's Tree (C.*.*.*.) My friend is called Ninty. She stood under a tree, and she was curious about daffodil stamen. [Ed.'s note: I wouldn't use the acronym.] The Mega Midget
Curious George and the High Voltage Fence Yeah, it's a bit long. I just made it up one day a few years ago. If I had a band... Train
Curly 'd' And The Partial Derivatives I was sitting in Calculus 3 with analytical geometry a couple of weeks ago and the subject of partial derivatives came up. They are denoted in one form as a backwards 6 or a curly "d." The rest was pure creative genius. Rocky
Curry, Curry, Curry It started out as me and me mates shouting it out in the middle of the park for some reason. It could be a Middle Eastern band, and their first single would be called 'Chicken Tikka'. Also their would be a dancing curry on stage. Bob the magic Hobo
The Cursive Numbers When I was in elementry school, this one girl was helping another learn cursive. The first one asked about "Cursive Numbers"; this is my tribute to that whole incident. Deathawk
Curve Of The Earth Saw a TV ad...it showed the Earth from outter space...The Curve of the Earth! Plus it flows off the tongue and to SEE the curve of the Earth you have to be "Above it All" which sound like the bands first CD!:  Chris McConnell
Custodial I just think this is a cool name for a five man indy-band. I came up with it while trying to write a song in my head, emptying trash cans at my school. Peter the Reader
Custodian Lightbulb My friend was in the shower and you know how random words just pop into you head and they don't mean anything, well, custodian and light bulb sorta just came into her head, she then told at school and said "what's a custodian lightbulb?" and I said, "An awesome band name" so there it was Custodian Lightbulb. Meyghan
Customer Service I was reading the suggestions and somebody talked about "Taking back Subway". And the name seemed quite literal, so this instantly popped to mind. Hawk
Cut The Honey Was this name inspired by a) Capt. B.J. Hunnicutt ('Honey Cut') from M.A.S.H.? or b) The phrase 'cut the mustard'? spitzkrieg
Cute As Hell I was thinking of the band "Cute Is What We Aim For". Then I thought of Disturbed for some reason, and it just kind of came to me.  some1
Cutthroat Name of a 3 piece band I was in. Taken from the 3-person pool game. Chad
Cutting Room Floor Its my friend's new band's name. I think it's creative and edgy. SHADE451
Cuyahoga County Cornoner's Convention Well, you got your alliteration, so there's that. Plus, they're coroners, so there's the goth element. Cuyahoga County and Cleveland go together, and everyone knows Cleveland rocks. Plus, conventions? Dude.... Jason Reeher
Cyanide Cuz it's like acid s*** and it sounds catchy i reckon Stoned_Fly
Cyanide  I was sitting in science class the other day and when my teacher said this, I just thought it would be a cool band name. And it would really work the best for heavy metal/punk rock bands Annali Bekari
Cyanide For Cindy My friend's girlfriend (who was very cruel) was named Ashley, she dumped him. So we started the band's name out Arsenic for Ashley, but then thought of Cyanide for Cindy, in case Ashley caught on. Cory
Cyanide Milkshake I was just thinking up random band names and they were all pretty bad and i thoguht of them and i was like dude, these are total opposites. then i thought of iron butterfly and led zeppeline and i wa like wow i am a genius. Dan man
Cybergrope It goes on among many nerds across the world, super funny!!! Nice name for a Fear Factory kind of band, with a hint of Korn and Slipknot on the side la lokilla babyblu
Cyn Pyle Interesting spelling of concept. Suggested album- Pack of Lies Cyn J
The Cynic Route Because so many of us are cynical and pessimistic about politics, government etc. It's a twist on "scenic (route)". First album could be called "Take the Cynic Route". (The album cover) could show a Scenic Route Sign crossed out with "Cynic Route" by a bridge that's fallen into a river and clearly not in operation. Windrider
The Cynical Silhoulettes This would be a really cool band name for a band that has a dark,jazzy sound or 60s inspired. Chokex
CZX I was on a car trip and thinking of all the cars made with three letters and the third letter is X. I managed to get through all combinations (it was a long trip) and CZX just stood out as really cool sounding. Brian Kelly

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