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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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Entries Beginning with I, Page 3

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Name		Origin		Submitted by:
Inner City Express		We used it back in the mid-70's because we though ICE was pretty cool!!!		Vern Chandler
Inner Transition		I was trying to decide what to call my band, when I eventually create one, and I was reading the periodic table for inspiration. Somehow the inner transition metals just struck me as cool. Could be a sort of new age band maybe.		subject to change
Innocence Forgotten		This would be a cool band name for a girl group who isn't quite as angelic as they seem.		cassi
Innocent Bystander		i was sitting in my garage playing my guitar when some guy almost got hit by a car when he was walking. i thought that it may represent being a bystander and getting hit by something life-changing		Earle
The Innocent Criminals		Usually, criminals are not too innocent, so I came up with it as sort of an oxymoron.		tbuck61391
The Innocent Criminals		That name, submitted by tbuck61391 is already used (and has been) by Ben Harper's band.		Oliver Clothesoff
Innocent Kisses		I can only hope this one isnt taken yet. Its cool because the name can literally tell a story. I might use this one... oh well I dunno		AmyHuang
Innocent Monkeys		The cover of their debut album would show the three band members in "hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil" poses.		Princess Ana
Innocent Of the Knowledge		Who said shakespear was good for nothing!!! well, thats mosly trye, but thsi mcbeth quote gave our band this rather random name for our rather random group.........ska-funk-punk-grunge-rock....interesitng		Strudel
Innocent Tongues		I saw this in a poem by Wilfred Owen, who was a poet in WWI. I thought it was funny because there is so much bad mouthing in music these days.		josh manning
Innuendo		My favorite Queen album and my favorite album overall. It is a very cool word.		Lash Ferguson
inphection		get used to it. teh annoying spelling will drill its plain peachiness into your mind for days, pitiful mortals. -=(utopian)=- spell it with your lousy 'f' if you must, child.		tempest
Inquisitive Investigators		Aren't all investigators inquisitive? THis is a great name for the ex- police investigators who want to start a band!		Pigertaws
Insane Cardigan Posse		Well, the story to this one is, I always come up with really strange things the second they pop in my head. Plus I have a friend who loves 60's-70's music, and he's a Juggalo, so I came up with the perfect band for him. A mixture of The Cardigans, and Insane Clown Posse.		Rob
Insane Cheesecake		I went to a party, and they had chese cake. While walking around, i heard somebody say: Wow, this is insane cheesecake. Voila.		qweww
Insane in the Membrain		my friends and i were watching this tv show and all the sudden one pf them said that he seems to be insane in the membrain, we then had a huge laughing fit and it just sounds like an interesting name for a band who could have an image of being a bit insane...		alygal
Insane Root		Reference to a phrase from Shakespeare's MacBeth		Ami
Insane V.S Sane		I just like the sound of it. I think of myself as insane and sane.		amanda day
Insania		well at first i came up with 'lnsaniac' basically maniac and insane together, but when i googled it, it was already in use by some douchbag band... so then i heard aboutthe word 'insania' from the urban dictonary , and thought it was a cool and awesome name for a band with a viviciouse woman singer..		Pamela
Insanity		Its cool because it relates to how some people in the world do not know what to do in life and how life is pretty insane if you think about it. Thats the same reason why I came up with it too!		Shanella erickson
Insanity's Children		I was thinking about insanity and how it's a very strange way of looking at life. I use Insanity's_Child for a lot of my screen names and the same name for a lot of my Clans. So yeah, I reckon it's cool.		Cameron
Insert brain here		Bart writes it on Homers head		YASMR
Insert Orange Blancmonge		i was just thinkin about blancmonge and insert name, so i combined them		tomo
Inside Hell		Good scream O band name or Hard Rock. I got the idea after listening to Disturbed's Inside The Fire and AC/DC's Highway to Hell		M2jk
Inside Out		I thought of it when I put my shirt on inside out. It'll probably be my bands name so yeah.		Hallie N.
Inside-Out		My friends and I were thinking about what we'd wear when we performed. We thought we could call our band Inside-Out and wear our T-shirts inside out!		Connor
insomniac		I was listening to Green Day's "Insomniac", And I thought it would be an awesome band name. :)		metal head
Insomniac's Dream		Taken from the title of an album by Adema. I like it and think it's cool because it's an oxymoron. You dream when you sleep, and insomnia is not sleeping. You can't dream when you can't sleep now can you? I guess insomniacs dream (imagine) they are sleeping. Anyway I like band names that are ironic or oxymorons and this should be the name of a band somewhere!		Edward
Inspector Clouseau And The Pink Panthers		For all you Pink Panther fans out there who want to form a band, this name is for you!		Alan the Ottoman
Instant Death		Just add water . . .		Zac
Instant Gratification		It's what any self-respection American expects these days. Imagine the marquis. Tonight: "Instant Gratification"		ridicoo us
Instant Human		I don't know why it's cool, it just is.		dick murder
Instant Insanity		well i was gonna call my band this (but didnt) because my brother called me and instant punk and then said just add water. i thought it would be so cool as insanity.then we came across something on the internet of a comedical group or something being called instant insanity and they said just add water. so now we are lookin for another name. sadness.		Amanda
Instant Skin		When my sister and I were younger, we wanted to be in a band. We started making up names. This was our favorite. The first album would, of course, be "Just Add Water".		Tattyfatty
Instant Winner		As in, "You may not be an instant winner". I wouldn't mind listening to someone who actually _is_ an instant winner, and knows it.		Adam
Instinct		I thought it was a cool name because it is like instinct when you think of a band name		ward86fan
Integrated Approach		It was on the cover of my Geometry textbook. It's cool cause "integrated" is a rad word.		_siimpleemeeh_
Internal Bleeding		My friend thought of it. I just liked the sound of it....expresses pain within the heart.		Aparna
INTERNAL BLEEDING		its just sounds like a kick ass goregrind band		brendo
Internal Error		Your computer will say this, just before it crashes and wipes the hard drive. It's kind of a nice concept for a band, "we are Internal Error, prepare to crash!" or something cooler than that, maybe.		Mia
Internal Essence		This name was cool because one of our members was wearing Herbal Essence (Shampoo) in her hair. We liked the fragrance in her hair, so we took the name.		Marcus roberson
International		Why I think this is cool is because, say, you could be American and your drummer could be British and your singer could be Italian, for example.		Peyton
International Adequacy		Me and my friend were just sitting around and thought this up, we're starting a band, but we're not using this name.		TKiLLjOy
International Beat Machines		I was wondering what else IBM could stand for...		Joe
The Interpreted		If you just listen to the words "The Interpreted," it just makes you interpret the band. It makes you think of how you interpret this band as being. It actually came to me while I was writing one of my essays.		DC
Interspirit		I think it´s a cool name for a Christian band because this word tries to say there is a relationship between God an us in spirit. And it sounds cool.		Luis Barbosa
Intestinal Difficulties		Sounds like 'technical difficulties', doesn't it? Well, it's another term for a certain type of digestive problem, namely diarrhea. First single could be titled 'We Are Experiencing'...		IHaveNoBrain
Into The Fog		I think this name is cool because when i listen to my older brothers band it makes me think of my band and our song that talks about a girl that goes in to the fog and never came out. I think it would be a good band name for a sad depressing band that has there heart broken.		J.P
Into the Mist				Cpt. Neeb
Into the Outrage		A band for anyone who actually likes to watch Fox News.		RevengeFromMars YouTube
Intoxicated Butterfly		We did this stupid butterfly project back in 6th grade, and I had a friend who was researching this butterfly. The butterfly would go eat rotting fruit, and then become intoxicated. We realized how much of a cool band name that'd be!		Brandi
Intoxilyzer		It's really just another term for breathilyzer, but doesn't it just sound cool? It would work particularly well for a band that's so hard they leave you feeling intoxicated...		Professor Stampede
Intrinsically Linked		my mom is an author and she wrote the line in one of her books: 'Yeah, coz your all intrinsically linked'. I just liked it!		clanger
Invalid Data		Crash that computer and make the world geaux (go) crazy.		Bryan Rouyea
The Invalids		Invalids are like those people in wheelchairs.		rilesworth morrison the second
Invincible Twinkies		As a wise Kwikie Mart store clerk once said, "Silly customer, you cannot hurt a twinkie!"		JT
Invisible Barf		It's cool because it's synonomous with musicians singing trashy lyrics. It's vomit you can hear, but can't see. Also, I barf everytime I drink sodas and/or alcohol.		rocky
Invisible But There		When our teacher used the word invisible, I just thought that you can't have something invisible but still there. So I thought it would make a good band name, because the band could be hip hop. It also sounds catchy.		mills
Invisible Electric Needle Gun		My sister started getting pains in her butt a few years ago. She described them as feeling like and invisible electric needle gun		Merlin
Invisible Insane		It's a translation of "out of sight, out of mind". Think about it.		Mandy
Invisible Kids		My friend cracked a joke about one of her exes having "imaginary sperm". I told her if he had imaginary sperm he could make "invisible kids." It just sounded like an awesome band name to me.		Stacey
The Involuntary Luge		According to Jerry Seinfeld in his stand-up routine, the luge is the only sporting event where you can have people competing in it against their will and it would be exactly the same. He then goes on to say he wants to see the involuntary luge in the next Olympics.		Brian Kelly
Ionic Bond		doesn't it sound spiffy and sophisticated? i came up with it in Bio class...use it freely.		bernie
IOUFO		I owe you a UFO ride		astro sumalacay
IOUFOmism		like JFKFC styled and euphemism		astro sumalacay
Iran Shofar		A parody of A Flock Of Seagulls' "I Ran (So Far Away)."		Chuck Fensch
Irate Customer Bushwackers		Yeah you could send them to one of those crabby customers front door and have em turn up all their db amperage and when that grumpy customer answers the door everyone jam those decibels smack on their foreheads.!		badboybear
Iris		I think this is cool because... well, you see through your iris, and that is how you see the world, the world is your viewing stone and is there for you to see. and plus the iris flower is really cool.		Torrie
Irk the Snarky		It means annoy those who are annoying!!! It is the foundry of playing music really reeeeeeally loud to annoy old people!!! Irk- strange word, snarky- strange word, the- word most people with a preschool diploma can read. I really want to see a generation of preschoolers headbanging to loud music in place of naptime.		L
Irkers Of The World Unite		Possible punk name?		Casper
The Iron Brigade		random article on wiki... hahahaha		rachelle
Iron Chin		Sounds like the ideal nickname for Jay Leno.		Dr Music
Iron Coat		You know what they say, "In this business you better have a Thick Skin".		Cinjin Cain
Iron Crystal		I just thought of it. It is cool because it was number two on the Name Rater (website) behind Esinsive Acess.		Justin Owens
Iron Opposum		Some friends and I were randomly coming up with band names and we thought it was perfect. It makes fun of the idiotic heavy metal bands who just scream and smash guitars. Just put a metal and any animal together.		Jessie
Iron Ore		Why not? Besides, iron ore is like the coolest 'rock' or whatever it is.		let
Iron Pegasus		I heard it on the TV show What's With Andy, it was the name of his dads band. It's the coolest name i've ever heard for a band		Ramrod The Destroyer
Iron Pigs		The Lehigh Valley IronPigs are a minor league affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies based in Allentown, PA whose name reminds me of a combination of two songs by Black Sabbath, "Iron Man" and "War Pigs". The space is added to avoid confusion with the team.		JeReMy
Iron Wall		i was bored		morg
Ironclad		It sounds very metal. I saw it in a dictionary.		Matt D
Ironclad Casualty		I saw it in my history book one day, then I saw the vocabulary words together. That's awesome.		austin sherlock
Ironic Circumstance		It just sounds cool, like being in a band im sure beings along many ironic circumstances.		SJ
Ironic Detatchment		That was the name of my old band. I got it off the movie Mr. Deeds.		Marisa
Ironmongers		I heard it in Iron Man. Supplier of weapons.		89Kyle
Irradiated Camel		This is weird, there was something in our French lesson about irradiated camels in a text, fairly random. Whatever, the French can be strange. It's sort of like if you were crossing the desert and your camel was suddenly hit by a blast of radiation, "with my camel irradiated, I was forced to cross the Sahara on foot".		Al Capone
Irrational Disposition		The reason why this band name would kick seriously large ammounts of (butt) is the fact that it sounds really intelligent because of the word usage. But you throw some heavy rifts and some nefarious lyrics into the mix, it would make for a brutal group. It kicks. Seriously. Well, that and I've been told that I have one of these!!! Boo-ya!		YousoCrazy
Irrational Penguins		The name of our intermural basketball team in High School back in the 1980's. I can't remember who came up with it. We were a bunch of geeks who made it to the finals, so we weren't all that bad either.		Sol
Irregular Show		It's a play on the Cartoon Network show Regular Show.		JeReMy
Irreverent Jesse Jackson		CAUSE I HATE JESSE JACKSON, HE'S NOTHING MORE THAN AN EXTORTIONIST, COOL BAND NAME THOUGH		ANDY
Irrevocably In Like		I'm not really sure. Me and my friend were talking about Stephine Meyer's "Twilight" and she fell in love with the word "irrevocably". The "in like" part was just like not quite love, but more than friends :)		Daniela:)
Isabel's Collarbones		I got it from reading 9 Chickweed Lane		Nina
Ish		My friends and I were going to start a band. One of my friends suggested Ishkabible for a name, so we just shortened it to Ish.		Joe
Isolated Fear		One of my freinds had to fight this kid and was scared...so we told him to not be a p**** and get rid of his ISOLATED FEAR...and it stuck with us.		AtAlAcKoFwRds
Isolated Storm		i got it off a weather report. lol.		ABB
Ispelli_Radost		I don't even know if 'Ispelli' is a real word! But Radost means happiness in Russian. Found it by a book of Anton Chekhov.		Rina
Issues		I look at a magazine, but there's another meaning of issues as in problems, actually i might have it as my own band name, hmm, it could be a good emo-type band name. Cool. =o)		beckaroo
Istic		A common suffix for adjectives, such as "realistic" and "futuristic." It would work for an avant-garde digital music composer, and even better if said composer is European or Japanese.		Olvan The Terrible
Istic		A common suffix for adjectives, such as "realistic" and "futuristic." It would work for an avant-garde digital music composer, and even better if said composer is European or Japanese.		Olvan The Terrible
It and What		I'm pretty sure no one has these names. It would be cool because you can ask you're friend "Have you heard of it?" "Heard of What?" "Yes I have, but have you heard of it?"		Cole Wissel
It Has No Appeal		From a lyric in the Marina and the Diamonds' song "Oh No". I think it might be an interesting band names		Sarah

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