Janelle Shane of Postcards From The Frontiers Of Science recently fed over 100,000 metal band names, subgenres and countries of origin from metal-archives.com into an open source neural network framework. It was done in a bid to have the program convincingly generate various fictitious metal bands on its own. Here’s what the program wound up spitting out after gleaming what it could from that dataset:
“Dragonred of Blood – Death Metal – Indonesia
Deathhouse – Melodic Death Metal – Brazil
Vultrum – Folk/Black Metal – Germany
Stäggabash – Black Metal – Canada
Deathcrack – Death Metal – Mexico
Stormgarden – Black Metal – Germany
Vermit – Thrash Metal/Crossover,/Deathcore – United States
Swiil – Progressive Metal/Shred – United States
Inbumblious – Doom/Gothic Metal – Germany
Inhuman Sand – Melodic Death Metal – Russia
ChaosWorge le Plague – Doom Metal – Brazil
Inhum the Thorg – Black Metal – Slovenia
Chaosrug – Black Metal – Mexico
Jazzy – Heavy Metal – United States
Sux – Heavy Metal/Hard Rock – Chile
Dragonsulla and Steelgosh – Heavy Metal – Tuera
Verking of the Beats – Thrash Metal/Crossover Thrashcore – Netherlands
Squeen – Doom Metal – Colombia
Death from the Trend – Black Metal – Croatia
Shuck – Death Metal – Israel
Dragorhast – Heavy Metal/Hard Rock – Germany
Verb – Black Metal – Norway
Black Clonic Sky – Black Metal – Greece
Snapersten – Folk/Melodic Black Metal – Italy
Verk – Melodic Death Metal – Sweden
Snee – Thrash/Death Metal – Brazil
Vomberdean – Melodic Black Metal – United States
Suffer the Blue – Death/Thrash Metal – Germany
Sespessstion Sanicilevus – Melodic Death Metal – United States
Sköpprag – Black Metal – Norway
Sht – Symphonic/Heavy Metal – United States
Sun Damage Omen – Symphonic Progressive Metal – France”