Band names

I bought some CDs from Concert Live recently.

These fine souls record live gigs and have CDs of the performance ready for sale at the end of the performance. Apart from being a pretty cool use of technology you can choose between various performances and for people in the Antipodes like me get as close as possible to hearing bands live who are never going to tour here. We are So Far Away. Anyway they had an inserted ad for a mob called www.plastichead.com who sell 'official' rock merchandise.

Despite the .com PlasticHead is also in the UK so everything costs too much (damn those strong currencies) but I thought I'd go there and have a look. Little did I realise it was all a cover for Satanicness of the most heinous kind. Not really - they just flog lots of Satan rock it seems. But what I did discover was that band names have definitely moved on from the GOD (Good Old Days). Names like Anthrax are still there but there is a move towards the necrotic and offensive. Some new favourites: Skeletonwitch (not so much), Septic Flesh, Havok, Altar of Plagues and Discharge (which even my twenty year old son who savours all things offensive finds a bit off). But wait there is more: you can go to an A - Z of names which link to whatever they have to flog (which seems like a lot). Must go, I've just found a DVD of Emerson, Lake & Palmer's 40 year Anniversary concert (someone stop me).