Proper Band Name Pronunciations By The Artist Themselves (Vol. 1) | Metal Injection

[@simianresistance]

Maybe lower the background metal on pronunciation videos.

[@Sampai91]

It is making it even harder to hear x)

[@knarpasti4508]

Lmao

[@mikebot6164]

1:04-1:07 Just Gaerea. Straight and to the point.

[@yarnitsua]

But what did he say exactly? I can't hear anything but "gae."

[@sophiegonzales2615]

@@yarnitsua i think it’s “gayr”

[@pushytub]

I always thought it rhymed with diarrhea

[@jjs8426]

It's pronounced "Gay"

[@akiro5653]

Badass. God I love that band. Can't wait to see them live.

[@xFF7xGIRLx]

Awesome editing .... Can barely hear what they're saying cause the music is too loud.

[@xBLK_LOUDx]

Turn up your ears

[@creaturalshade7054]

Yes, just turn the volume up to the most obnoxious level and turn the treble and mids down aaaand.... it still sounds like shit.

[@xFF7xGIRLx]

@@creaturalshade7054 😂

[@Steve_P_B]

Really? Because I have no problems understanding them. Maybe it's your device's audio that has the problem

[@robbgreally3298]

Brilliant video, although the background music is very distracting and makes it difficult to hear the artist at times

[@Boppsta712]

And some people submitted their videos with their own background music to really muddle things up

[@SuzanaValenca]

I love the nice people in this video who also explained what the band names mean.

[@rowanrobinson]

The Manegarm one was classic. Made me look them up and they've got a new fan.

[@saqnswusjbingles1042]

same

[@AvB.83]

"It's Atrae Bilis. I think." 😅 When the artists themselves aren't overly confident in pronouncing their own band name... Eluveitie & Einherjer were probably the ones I was the most wrong.

[@mathiasstrupstad3828]

The guy from Einherjer has a pretty strong dialect. Most Norwegians today would pronounce the word pretty differently (when they read it out loud; it's not a modern Norwegian word). I'm willing to bet it's probably also pretty far off from what the old Norse pronunciation would be like, though of course Norway has always been flooded with crazy dialects.

[@inspectorevo5704]

Cool idea. Wish I could have heard half of them.

[@Jake-sw3ss]

Be'Lakor is a really good atmospheric Melodic Death band from Australia. I suggest giving them a listen.

[@yinzthrone8703]

Good and helpful but background music is mixed too loud. Take it down a notch next time. 🤘🏼

[@Maedroth]

Half of these entries can be summed up as: "You pronounce our band name as: *drowned out by background music*" Fan-bastard-tastic editing there like.

[@eclatshwartzbaumcybertune2063]

Yeah lol

[@eclatshwartzbaumcybertune2063]

And some of them say it very soft lol

[@WMfin]

* adjusts his glasses * Time for me to nitpick: Cirith Ungol is a name of a place in Tolkien's books. It is elvish, Sindarin to be exact and letter c is pronounced more like k than c, so it would be closer to "Kirith Ungol"

[@seelentau]

Yeah, but this is the name of the band, not the name of the place.

[@DaskaiserreichNet78]

Thank you. It is always handy to have a Tolkien Language expert at hand.

[@raze2798]

Being even more nitpicky, "u" is pronounced "oo" in Sindarin, and "i" is more like "ee" as in peer. "O" sounds like the "o" in golf. So technically, it should be pronounced KEER-eeth OON-gohl as opposed to SEER-ith UHN-gul. It means "Pass of the Spider" and is where Shelob's Lair is located

[@skaisnotdead]

@@seelentau Listen, you don't name your band after a location in LOTR and pronounce it wrong.

[@seelentau]

@@skaisnotdead The name of the band is pronounced differently from the name of the place. That's really nothing unusual, it's the same as pronouncing "kindergarten" differently from "Kindergarten". Or having an accent or whatever. Language isn't set in stone, even JRRT would've told you that.

[@m.infernal]

the word "Cirith" was created by Tolkien. It is pronounced "Kirith". Americans like to mispronounce words with "C's". Similar to how they incorrectly say "Seltic" for the word "Celtic". It is "Keltic". KELTIC FROST KIRITH UNGOL

[@TheSquareOnes]

The guy from Persefone nailed it, if a band takes an existing name or word but pronounces it "wrong" then that still becomes the "right" pronunciation with regards to their band. They're essentially making a new homonym since the band's proper name itself becomes an additional definition and pronunciation of the existing spelling.

[@Werewolf914]

I'm an American and I've never said Celtic with a S sound and no one I know has either, it probably depends on which state in the US, but everyone in my state says it with a K sound not a S

[@ashkenad]

You may be right about “Cirith” in a Tolkien context, but as a band it is pronounced “Sirith Ungol”. Also Tom G. Warrior has pronounced it both “Keltic” Frost and “Seltic” Frost, so both are correct.

[@TheSquareOnes]

@Yuki NoShinku No, I think you just misunderstood my point. When you name anything, including a band, you're giving it a proper name that is essentially whatever you want it to be. Even if it's based on an accidental mispronunciation of an existing word, the new pronunciation becomes "correct" simply by virtue of you declaring that to be the case and thus creating a new homonym. As far as I know this is how proper names work in all languages, but at the very least it's definitely how they work in english which is the languages we're typing in and that everyone in the video was speaking so it can be assumed to be the case here.

[@heresjohnny999]

Unless it's Celtic Football Club, then it's pronounced 'seltic'.

[@pwjhubers]

Make this a recurring thing please.

[@lightbright4996]

My favourite one is DIR EN GREY = diiru an gu-ray german / french / english, but pronounced in japanese. Never heard any native english speaking person name them correctly.

[@seelentau]

Fun fact: The name comes from a line of a song that goes "Haiiro no anata ni - Dir en gray" (written with an "a"). The Japanese part and the DE/FR/EN part are supposed to mean the same ("To the grey you" or "To you in grey"), and DIR EN GREY decided to switch the "a" to an "e" for their band name. They also thought that "Dir" is the German word for "silver coin", but nobody knows why. And even funner fact: The original "Dir en gray" part comes from a band called "Dir & Gray" (also pronounced "Diru an gurei", even though "and" is normally pronounced "ando" in Japanese), and this band in turn got their name from their guitarist, who named it after "dill of grey colour" (the dill flower is usually yellow). So basically, the original meaning is simply "grey dill". :D

[@IceDragon978]

Hey Metal Injection thanks for putting music over the pronunciations so that we couldn't hear the pronunciations and thus still can't pronounce them

[@lastniteintown]

Thank you for this! Request for vol 2... Wiegedood!

[@nickpardon8617]

It's hilarious to hear foreigners try to pronounce this but let's try: "Wie" as in Nintendo Wii "Ge" as in only the g in guts "Dood" as in boat but with d Good luck!

[@melle4390]

And Doodswens!

[@StevenBeverage]

Thank you for this..one of my favorite bands and ive been talking them up as either wee-jee-dude which i knew couldnt be right or vee-gu-dude..which sounded right to my ignorant american ass

[@nickpardon8617]

@@melle4390 "Doods" is (like I said) the same as boat but with a d and an s at the end "Wens" is the same pronounced as Spence but with a w instead of SP This is fun... 😉

[@13tuyuti]

@@melle4390 that would be doadswens.

[@MajesticDemonLord]

Manegarm win for the most hilarious segment. 10/10 lads.

[@rotesgarados6475]

Der Weg einer Freiheit is amazing

[@adamujhelyi4340]

YESSSSSS!!!!! wasnt expecting to see Tamas from thy catafalque in this video but it was so cool to see him speak!

[@durnheim5746]

They made an error in the text of one the simplest band name: Vreid not Vried!

[@dangiampietro6606]

Very cool. Definitely would like to see Lazarvs on the next episode

[@mark6302]

Wow i was butchering a few of these especially Eluveitie. I saw Vitriol open for Corpse recently it was aweome.

[@arkangelarkangel5348]

Eluveitie is actuall a horrible, horrible band - so there is no problem pronouncing is incorrectly. :D

[@frenchbaguetteoui]

@@arkangelarkangel5348 Dumb take.

[@arkangelarkangel5348]

@@frenchbaguetteoui Well... music for dumb people, indeed. :-D ;-)

[@Werewolf914]

@Arkangel Arkangel That is actually incorrect, Eluveitie is one of the best bands ever to exist easily Top 10.

[@arkangelarkangel5348]

@@Werewolf914 Saw them live some years ago... not good at all but glad that you enjoy them. ;-)

[@Lintmusic]

Next volume, gotta get a member of Einstürzende Neubauten to help us all non-German speakers out

[@SandlerDeluxe]

@Lord Hentai more like ein-shtoor-tzen-day--noy-bow-ten the ü is quite tricky since it doesn't exist in the English language (I mean the sound not the letter, English native speakers even have a tough time hearing a difference between u and ü) but if you imagine the oo with a Scottish accent or a surprised tone you might come close

[@fartvader84yearsago8]

Loving the Månegarm bit 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@itsdokko2990]

i have a few suggestions for a future video :P : -Heidevolk -Anaal Nathrakh

[@eclatshwartzbaumcybertune2063]

An-aal na-Th-ra-kh

[@TreeBeard2008]

Heidevolk is easy...something like hye-de-folk :-)

[@marcatto]

6:55 Aephanemer is a merge of the two French words "éphémère" (ephemeral), and "fanée" (wilted).

[@lars5174]

Request for Vol 2: Turn down the music. Lol - Also try to get 1349 to pronounce it in norwegian, try to get Hamferđ, Sibiir, Auđn and Baest and include that A Bath i mean Abbatt bit in the end

[@lukasbahr6582]

The world REEEAAAALLY needed this vid

[@wrok88]

Typ-o in the banner for Vreid, hehe. Interesting to hear some of the pronounciations. I knew most of them, but some surprised me for sure.

[@tntsmetalmeltdown4148]

This is so helpful to all reactors! God knows we struggle with these bands names!

[@Omnatten9]

I speak Russian natively but live in Sweden so I will always pronounce Nytt Land the Swedish way, roughly like "nütt land", with "Land" pronounced in a "German" way if you can say so

[@nestorgonzalez]

something useful, easily the best Metal Injection video

[@DeadlyRivfader]

The Tolkien nerd in me forbid me to pronounce Cirith Ungol the way the band does

[@Lyrog]

Exactly, it feels so wrong :')

[@dentanau]

Haha yeah, after he said it, I was like: "no it's not!"

[@seelentau]

@@dentanau But it is. They took the name from Tolkien's language, but changed the pronounciation to their liking. So, when pronouncing the band name, "cirith" is correct.

[@dentanau]

@@seelentau I was aware of that. It was a reply to the original post, expressing my sentiment. The band can choose to pronounce their name whichever way they want. It doesn't change my sentiment though, and just like the op, I dislike the pronounciation.

[@seelentau]

@@dentanau I mean, I'd understand that sentiment if it were about the actual place in Tolkien's books, but it's not, right...

[@502deth]

there needs to be a volume 2. how about the more mainstream bands that i cant pronounce, like "slayer" or "metallica"

[@haydenphipps2778]

I was waiting for Mgla

[@IllustriousCrocoduck]

Still waiting hahaha...

[@13tuyuti]

Mugwaah.

[@buggshash]

This should help: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lV63iGWGltqpgpY

[@Nickmusimiecconajmniej3znaki]

@@13tuyuti Nope, there's nothing between M and G there ;)

[@13tuyuti]

@@Nickmusimiecconajmniej3znaki yeah, but nobody outside of Poland can go from a M to a G without at least a small vowel sound.

[@orsettomorbido]

"Atrae Bilis, I think" is hella funny (and understandable to a certain extent, Latin is not the most simple language to pronounce is your own language does not come from it in some way) But Persefone's band member saying "I don't know, I don't care" is also extra funny XD

[@szymonkorzen4863]

2;00 Tamas

[@Michael_Michaels]

1:33 _souls to fear_ actualy is pretty good!

[@mero210]

Great Idea, very helpful in some cases. Hope there will come more :)

[@nigelnigelakiraakira]

Was hoping Svartidauði would be on this. Oh vell. Maybe next time.

[@Toomuchrock]

This is the hardest part of doing a podcast -- realizing that I have no idea how to pronounce the name of a band I've been listening to forever and you've got to do it at the next break. Metal Injection, you're doing the (dark) lord's work here.

[@nochthitus9397]

Lot of bands here I've never heard of, definitely going to have some new stuff to listen to this weekend!

[@firzenfire990]

One of the most informative videos on youtube!

[@1982AntonioC]

Ok Vol. 1, huh? NOW I'm expecting to see the frontman of south african band called "XavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffX" to come and pronounciate it in the right way before the end of this format. Not a joke, folks! The name is REAL! EDIT: and don't try to read it from their logo!!!

[@IllustriousCrocoduck]

It's funny watching him trying to remember what it all stands for.

[@toyotaecw]

I believe it’s pronounced “bun-dull uv stiks”

[@1982AntonioC]

@@toyotaecw I don't think you can really pronounce it by writing.... XD

[@TreeBeard2008]

Its hard to even read it, and I say this as someone who doesnt have issues with the long words mostly (like some german words). Some languages have whole sentence as a single word,this might be the case :-)

[@IllustriousCrocoduck]

@@TreeBeard2008 it's an acronym

[@razvanrepciuc3284]

Hearing a frenchman ask his audience to properly pronounce a long ass french band name properly then pronounce it in a regional accent that sounds goofy to 80% of francophones is peak French pedantry.

[@RobbHighFlyer]

He doesn't have much of an accent, sounds pretty neutral to me

[@sams6s]

Neutral to me too

[@b.e.7491]

Il n'a pas d'accent, mais ouais compliqué pour un non francophone

[@razvanrepciuc3284]

@@b.e.7491 Il faudrait être assez breton pour ne pas entendre un accent bro.

[@13tuyuti]

@@b.e.7491 Les gens qui n'ont pas d'accent, ca n'existe pas. Tout le monde a un accent.

[@matthewclark6103]

It's kind of interesting to see outside of the American music scene to learn a smidge about (from my perspective) international bands. It will be fun to try and google some of these bands to learn more about them. Great video.

[@Werewolf914]

I was so close on Eluveitie I always say Elu-Veh-Tee I just need to ignore the U! I was correct with Persefone and Agathodaimon but that's because I'm obsessed with Mythology and Folklore so I've looked up before how to say things from Greek Myth, plus the next Cat I'm going to get will be named Purrsephone after the Queen of the Underworld so I kind of needed to know it. Be'Lakor I was right on too. Heliung I was fairly close too, I was just pronouncing it more like the English word lung. A lot of the others I'm not very familiar with and some of them I've never heard of.

[@randomdude93-93]

@05:11: Great band live but obviously they still have that proper French arrogance going on. Fantastic :D

[@SirFooplesTheThird]

God I hate the French

[@Nerdcrusher]

"Nytt Land" means "New land" in Swedish (possibly also in Norwegian), and it's definitely not pronounced that way.

[@blazejecar]

i thought the same, I lived in sweden for a while and that was definitely not right

[@mikkokorperich4151]

I didn't even know this band but googled and found out they're from Russia. I wonder why Russians would give their band a Swedish name, when they don't even know Swedish...

[@Nerdcrusher]

@@mikkokorperich4151 Yup, it sounded exactly like a Russian pronouncing something in a foreign language for them. "Njitland" sounds nothing like Swedish or Norwegian.

[@whojanson6751]

Eller hur! 👍😄

[@whojanson6751]

And to be honest... These bands... Not very well known, right? Playing on smaller festivals in their own homecountries, perhaps...

[@noahcody5986]

good thing they told me how to pronounce gost - wasn't sure about that one.

[@jocool7370]

Feuerschwanz is hilarious! 😀

[@ljp719]

Great to see Vitriol here, some of the greatest death metal in recent years.

[@v1x13]

if you guys would turn down the background music i would be able to hear what the people are saying. im not playing doom eternal, im trying to learn something, i dont need to hear that shit.

[@sashaalexa8907]

I want some NEW Melechesh his riffage Is liquidity brutal .

[@wolpertinger4719]

Would have loved to see Skraeckoedlan in here.

[@mikkokorperich4151]

Finnish band names like Korpiklaani or Eläkeläiset give us Finns always a laugh when pronounced by foreigners. A lot of people don't even seem to know that a and ä are two different letters. Also the correct pronunciation for Faroese band Týr would have been nice. I think it's something like "too-ir" I think...

[@teslatrooper85]

I would guess most people do not even know the ä and pretend it is just a funny looking a. Same for å. Especially if they are from north america.

[@mikkokorperich4151]

@@teslatrooper85 exactly! It's funny how many people pronounce Motorhead hear in Finland as it looks like it's written Motörhead.

[@molekyyli]

I haven't taunted my American teacher with either Korpiklaani or Eläkeläiset (I don't think he listens to the first and 100 % doesn't know the second) but he can say Jari Mäenpää well enough that I can understand who he's talking about. And he doesn't diss my atrocious accent in English, so... :D

[@mikkokorperich4151]

@@molekyyli accent is not a problem. The ignorance of not even knowing that letters with umlauts are totally different letter is another thing... So you're an American studying Finnish? Eläkeläiset is very popular in Finland and especially in Germany and Austria. :D

[@molekyyli]

​@@mikkokorperich4151 My accent bothers me cos it just makes me sound so bad (when talking English). I don't know, I don't really expect others to understands the letters with umlauts unless they're familiar with the language. I was actually impressed that he knew how to say Jari's name at all. No, I'm Czech living in Finland, just didn't know any local metal oriented guitar teacher (as funny as that sounds) but I knew this American bloke, so he became my teacher. I know Eläkeläiset. Well, kinda. Probably heard something. Maybe. 🙂At some point. 🙃Not sure. 🤔Not really interested. 😄If you say Joensuu, I think Insomnium, not Eläkeläiset (I had to actually google that lol). I don't listen to radio, don't watch TV and don't know the celebrities cos I just don't give a f unless they are related to metal scene, so I just simply don't know much Finnish music and Finnish celebrities due to this. Maybe I should take on the ad I got yesterday, for Seiska - iskulauseena "Kumminkin luet", niin oppisin kaikkea hyödyllistä, varmaan et kuka nussii ketä ja vastaavaa laadukasta sisältöä. 🤣

[@kandelgoat9512]

"G A E R E A" >doesn't elaborate yup, thats just like them

[@oreGolubovic]

I like it how the guy from Thy Catafalque says "Thy," and then mumbles something. Twice 😂

[@martelldeferro]

Feels bad for the member of VREID pronouncing it perfectly and then goes metalinjection and writes VRIED

[@Nickolaars]

Was fumbling the volume to turn it up AND down at the same time.

[@Grisu.]

"for the brutal impaired" lol

[@thomasorth-hall4738]

Can we get Vildhjarta on one of these volumes?

[@mikkokorperich4151]

Fun fact: Persefone is freely translated "ass sound" in Finnish. :P (perse=ass)

[@alexsnow5673]

I have a complain because Cirith Ungol comes from Tolkien's books (specially LOTR) and the C sounds like K, it doesn't sound like S. BUT, having said that, maybe the band decided to change this pronunctiation and adopted it for their name.

[@xzandher6812]

This is great we need more of these!

[@bresk1]

Mgla should be on this one, basically everyone who is not Polish is butchering the name (been there done that)

[@xnflg3074]

The l is actually a ł which is what causes the confusion. Ł in Polish is pronounced almost like the ‘w’ in English.

[@forthelulz5411]

Megua

[@Nickmusimiecconajmniej3znaki]

@@forthelulz5411 Nope, there is nothing between M and G sounds :)

[@timonuotio6395]

For me Gaerea was the one I wanted to know, and now I do! For part 2 get mgla to do this, even though I almost know how to pronounse it.

[@holylibations]

Mgla sounds like muh gwah

[@timonuotio6395]

@@holylibations yeah something like that. But I want some band members to say it.

[@matroe89]

And gaerea is pronounced "gay" when i got it right from the video. Never would have thought that

[@timonuotio6395]

@@matroe89 haaahhh!!!😂🤣

[@matroe89]

@@timonuotio6395 But it is, isn't it? I've listened to it about 20 times now because I didn't want it to be true🙈😆

[@Stroodle01588]

People need one for Vildhjarta Never heard a soul pronounce it right in the states

[@kaelanmcalpine2011]

I mean, I'm at least a little closer, since I know what the Swedish J is supposed to sound like.

[@darkslayer366]

Thx for the new bands to check out besides the pronouncements.

[@ChrisLee83]

"For the brutal impared" LOL

[@paladinminipedro707]

glad someone did this video...it helps a lot

[@jen.g.]

“I don’t know where to look.” I chuckled.

[@MistressoftheBleedingSorrow]

That's not how you'd pronounce Agathodaimon (Αγαθοδαίμων) in Greek though. 😅 Same goes for Persefone. 😆

[@opt3oscar]

😂😂😂😂

[@johannesberger8641]

Not in modern Greek, you mean.

[@ricksterdrummer2170]

@@johannesberger8641 Sure as hell not ancient Greek either.

[@johannesberger8641]

@@ricksterdrummer2170 Why? In ancient Greek, th is roughly pronounced as t and ai is pronounced like eye, as the guy in the video did it. The o in daimon should have been longer, and probably his emphasis was a bit off, but w/e

[@TheGuidotz]

I'm sure that this "Persefone" is the spanish pronunciation. In Italy we use the same - and it's written in the same manner too

[@user-zk1tb1yx2e]

Old school: lyrics videos Now: name pronunciations

[@TheFricki76]

Great idea for a Video

[@AngryBob4213]

Great idea but please turn down the background music so we can actually hear what they are saying

[@sashaalexa8907]

Eximperitus....... better be on here

[@Scrinwaipwr]

Useful information. If you're going to be a metal elitist, do it about name pronunciation rather than pretending certain artists and subgenres "aren't real metal" just because you don't like them.

[@pushytub]

Found the poser

[@frenchbaguetteoui]

This is a great idea for a video series, but when some of the bands can't or won't pronounce their band names right that's just bizarre.

[@adamcadle7078]

To be fair most are taken from lotr or wot

[@frenchbaguetteoui]

@@adamcadle7078 But both of those series have pronunciation guides so there's no real excuses.

[@seelentau]

@@frenchbaguetteoui Yes, there is: They took the name from Tolkien's language, but changed the pronounciation to their liking. So, when pronouncing the band name, "cirith" is correct.

[@frenchbaguetteoui]

@@seelentau But that's dumb. Words and pronunciation exist for a reason. You wouldn't do something like that to a "real" language so what's the difference?

[@seelentau]

@@frenchbaguetteoui Of course they do, but those pronounciations are not set in stone. Have you never watched any English movie about Nazis? Have you heard how "Reich" is pronounced in those movies? It's completely different from the German pronounciation. Besides, band names are proper nouns - the moment their pronounciation is decided, it becomes a valid spelling variant of the word. The band decided to pick the name from Tolkien's books, but also decided not to use Tolkien's pronounciation (or maybe didn't know about it). Saying that the band name is pronounced wrong because the place's name is pronounced differently is plain incorrect. If you would talk about the place and THEN pronounce it with a "c" instead of a "k", THAT would be a wrong pronounciation (and vice versa for the band name).

[@addama]

I love this. Give me volume 2, cowards, you won't

[@KarlRock]

You forgot Watain. It’s Wa + Tain (Tain like in Obtain).

[@parasecglenkwyst4835]

Wow, i knew a total of 2 bands.

[@nightwica]

Did you all at Metal Injection just write Vreid as Vried in a video teaching about band names? :D And no one caught it? :D Or is it another band here... Also, the winner is Månegarm! I love their take :D So much effort put into it lol.

[@tomcooney183]

Dang it, was hoping Destrage and Allegaeon would be on here 😂

[@xnflg3074]

I know for a fact Allegaeon is “allegiance” without the ‘s’ sound made by the ‘ce’ on the end, or more simply “a legion.” Destrage seems like a portmanteau of destroy and rage

[@BeardyGit89]

@@xnflg3074 I was pleased when I found out I'd been pronouncing Allegaeon correctly. Although it's not exactly by chance it makes sense. Only other possiblity I guess would be allerj-eon but just assumed it was a-legion.

[@xnflg3074]

@@BeardyGit89 I had thought it was A-leg-ae-on for a bit.

[@2099Oz]

This is a really good feature.

[@olivierk.1871]

For vol.2 : Mgla, Wiegedood, Au-Dessus, Marduk, misþyrming, unreqvited, Aorlhac

[@Metal_Weekend]

Mgla = Mgwa

[@Tilith]

Au-de-ssus Au = O De = dø, short no accented pronunciation, like in Europe, de-, not deou/ Ssus = sy, same as de, short and no accent, like in su-zuki, su-rimi, su-doku... sú- not su/ Pronounced quickly, like in a sentence, the e can be swallowed, making "O-dsu", which would be an equally correct pronunciation effectively. (actually, if you know the game Osu! just slip a "d" in there... Wait no... )

[@theoutsider1140]

Be‘lakor ?! 😱🤩

[@bodenlosedosenhose1590]

1:04 I think the guy from Gaerea misunderstood the question and just came out publicly. 😁🤘

[@agoogleuser3787]

🤣

[@kasperchristensen8416]

Hi there, I'm Tuomas Holopainen from the band Nightwish, and the propper way to pronounce our band name is _ÝðƢǂȡ_ ... one more time slowly: _Ýð - Ƣǂȡ._ Hope this helps \m/

[@tyshred9251]

Hahahaha I've played with Kyle from vitriol for years. He used to be in a band called those who lie beneath. Great fuckin band, cool dudes.

[@scourge2668]

Månegarm \m/

[@nerdbashingtime1536]

I’ve been saying Be’lakor wrong for atleast 10 years 😬 If you are reading this listen to a song called ‘countless skies’ by them. You’re welcome.

[@jamesacichon]

Yes! This is awesome!!

[@thanesmashmontages412]

I’d be interested to see Obsequiae next time or Vildhjarta

[@xnflg3074]

Ob-seh-kwee-ai (‘ai’ sound as in ‘sky’) seems most correct but it’s Latin and there are different ways to pronounce the ae morpheme

[@joeyuzwa891]

Could be wrong but I’m pretty sure vildhjärta is pronounced veeld-hyair-ta

[@jacoberickson6847]

Pretty sure its Vil-jar-tuh

[@xnflg3074]

@@joeyuzwa891 it is Swedish for “wild heart” and is pronounced “veeld-yahr-tuh” essentially but there is nuance to it. The ä is kinda like an “ai” like in the English word “fair,” and there’s a subtle unvoiced fricative on the “d” and “t” almost like “th”

[@thanesmashmontages412]

@@xnflg3074 I’ve been saying Ob-Seh-K, because it rolls off the tongue nicely but I can see what you mean. Hope it’s in the next video 😂

[@sinner13halloweenfiend76]

Sick some of.them are still hard to say lol 🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@circleofthytyrants]

needed that sanguisugabogg pronounciation lol

[@thewasserrecord4513]

Lesson learned: if your band name is hard to pronounce you only make it hard on your fans, which you dont survive without

[@BjornV1994]

Then again, most of these names are in their native tongue, and their first fans would be able to pronounce it perfectly and once you know how it is pronounced by hearing how the band pronounces it, it all depends a bit on your own ability to mimic certain sounds. And sure, for some this will be easy and others have it harder. Most metalheads I know as well as myself often get it right rather quickly unless it is an abomination like the full name of Eximperitus (Eximperituserqethhzebibšiptugakkathšulweliarzaxułum) but I often shiver at how some people online pronounce names like Rammstein. As for survival, as I recognize most of these names as bands I've either seen live, see headline on festivals outside their native country or just recognize from seeing their names on posters and line-ups, I don't think they have a problem surviving. And with some bands like Sanguisugabogg, I think it might work in their favor. It is a name that sticks due it not being easy to read.

[@thevoidalone]

@@BjornV1994 It boggles my mind how people get Rammstein wrong when they have at least 2 instances i can think of where they have the word Rammstein in the lyrics, and one of those examples it's featured very prominently as it's the title of the song and repeated many times throughout the song.

[@BjornV1994]

@@thevoidalone I know, at that's not counting how they introduce them on shows (though they don't need much of an introduction anymore) or how they pronounce it when interviewed. Enough opportunity... Or that time (I thought it was on german television, which surprised me quite a bit) an interviewer pronounced Apocalyptica (rather straightforward name when it comes to pronouncation) as Apocaluptica, with a u instead y... I mean, if the name isn't unreasonably long (like with Eximperitus' full name), put in a bit of effort...

[@aegistattoo]

I´d love to see how Kublai Khan TX actually pronounces their name, to me (brazilian) is a tongue twister

[@legatrix]

Who the hell needed Vitriol?

[@luizaliboni666]

I love devin he seems so tired of explaining the band name lmao