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What’s the best thing about doom metal? Is it the massive pummelling riffs? The spaced-out stoner lyrics? No – it’s the fact that pretty much every band on the scene has a totally bonkers name.
Ahead of this weekend’s doom metal and stoner rock festival Desertfest (April 24 – 26), we’ve picked five awesome bands from the line-up and mixed them up with five equally awesome-sounding bands that don’t actually exist. Can you tell the difference? Let’s go.
1) THE ATOMIC BITCHWAX: real or fake?
2) How about BONGSMASHER?
3) Yes, it’s a famous WWII movie. But is there also a doom metal band called DAS BOOT?
4) Do DOPETHRONE exist or did we make them up?
5) Did a band really name themselves after popular serif typeface GARAMOND?
6) Are you convinced by ICKE AND THE LIZARD APOCALYPSE?
7) It's a v. strange name. Does LVNAR CULT pass the smell test?
8) Is NOOTHGRUSH an actual band?
9) SLY & THE FAMILY DRONE: a pun too good to be true?
10) And finally, TEN FOOT WIZARD: real or fake?
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The real bands were: The Atomic Bitchwax, Dopethrone, Noothgrush, Sly & The Family Drone and Ten Foot Wizard.
The fake ones were: Bongsmasher, Das Boot, Garamond, Icke And The Lizard Apocalypse, and Lvnar Cult. Fake logos designed by Bryan Mayes.