Use These Band Name Ideas

In no particular order, except the last one. Open source and free of charge. Take these and run with them!

Eyeless
From Matthew 5:29-30, or even Samson from Judges 16. Yes, it’s a Slipknot song from arguably their best album, so metal bands may have to contend with that comparison. Searching “eyeless band” on the Googles shows a few Eyeless artists, a few of them currently active.

They Trust In Chariots
From Psalm 20:7. If this were truly in title case, the “In” would be lowercase, but it doesn’t look right like that to me for some reason.

Destroy the Idols
From Ezekiel 30:31, although the Bible, the Old Testament in particular, is rife with the concept of destroying idols anyways. The first of a few band names in this list with the “verb the noun” pattern.

Sawn in Half or Sawn in Two
Refers to Hebrews 11:37, but also to the apocryphal demises of the the prophet Isaiah or Simon the Zealot. This name is really only for a grindcore or adjacent-genred band; ain’t no boy band with a big budget on the line is going to use something this gory.

Earth Without Form
From Genesis 1:2. A few popular translations use “formless” or “without form”.

World to be Born
No direct Biblical reference but you could easily attach something from the creation narrative or the Lord’s prayer if you wanted to. I stole it from a song with a namesake title.

Pull Down Dagon
From 1 Samuel 5:1-7 or another Judges 16 reference. I riffed off of The Showdown’s song, “Dagon Undone (The Reckoning)“. By the way, in that first sentence I typed “Samson 16” instead of Judges, which almost passed through my internal filters to reach “good band name” status.

Tell the Stars or Count the Stars
Genesis 15:5 in the NIV translation has “tell the stars,” while the same verse in other translations refer to “counting” the stars. There’s no record of it anywhere online, but I distinctly remember there was a page or forum on AOL—not a website, actually in the AOL application somewhere—promoting a band called “Tell the Stars”. So I suppose I stole that version from them.

Four Man Furnace
From the Daniel 3 narrative. Stolen from a friend’s very early band that didn’t go anywhere.

My Grave Awaits
No direct Bible verse reference, but you could find a tangential verse and attach it. Another one stolen from a friend’s band that didn’t go anywhere (different friend). I believe it was also his AOL username.

The Sympathy Verses or The Sympathy Verse
I stole it from myself, from the title of a chapter in Pale Blue Scratch. It references the protagonist and antagonist writing to each other in person, because the antagonist lost his hearing and they are trying to come to an understanding.

Strangely Dim
Stolen from “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus“.

More Bitter Than Death
From Ecclesiastes 7:26, but I also stole it from a Strongarm song of the same name.

Sealed in Dreams
Stolen from a Project 86 song.

After the Order of Melchizedek
My favorite for last! From Hebrews 7:17. Translations offer different spellings of “Melchizedek,” so one can take their pick of whatever fits best. I picture this name belonging to a deathcore band, since longer names fit well with that genre (Job for a Cowboy, Through the Eyes of the Dead, Bring Me the Horizon, etc.). Even in terms of Christian scholarship, Melchizedek is an obscure character, despite being referenced in a rather important context, so the name has a mystery about it. With the complicated nonsense of metal band logos, there’s an easy opportunity to fit a cross or other Christian symbol in there.