BAND NAME PRONUNCIATIONS
Friday, February 5th, 2010 at 11:30am by Vince NeilsteinCosmo Lee posted a fun piece the other day about band name pronunciations: “Let’s help each other out. Use English words and syllables to denote pronunciation, with all caps for syllabic stress. For example, Metallica’s bassist is Robert True-HEE-yo. Got it? Good.” Among the band names and metal personalities he explores are Marduk, Dan Swanö, Mikael Åkerfeldt and Peter Tägtgren. The European readers of Invisible Oranges are really helping out.
I’d like to add a couple more to the debate:
Necrophagist
Necro-FAY-jist? Neck-RAH-fuh-jist? Necro-FAH-jist?
Vader
VAY-der or VAH-der?
Are there any bands with awkwardly written (or foreign) names that you’re wondering how to pronounce? Posit your theories in the comments.
-VN
neck RAH fuh jjist
like esophagus
or metropolis
Necro-FAY-jist … Muhammad pronounces it for us at the beginning of this Metal Injection interview http://www.metalinjection.net/tv/view/1380/necrophagist-interview-fall-2008
It’s necro-pha-jist. Here’s the first 2 syllables: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/necrophagous
riptuff is correct. I would stake all my albums on it.
You’d lose, then.
also i have heard muhammed himself say necro- FAY- jist
but hes wrong
…you just told the leader of the band that he’s pronouncing it wrong?
hahhaha I was thinking the same thing.
ripptuff: keep saying, “neck RAH fuh jjist,” no one will know what band you are referring to, and you will generally sound like a tard..but if it makes you happy..
i think it falls under the” stressing the ante-penultimate” rule.
check out the roots in which this “word’ is derived from too.
other than that i kinda feels natural for me to say that
i have no problem sounding like a happy tard
as long as im correct
Hmmm, I have a couple.
Kyuss, KEY-yoos? Ki-yus?
Satyricon. Is it just the combination of the words Satyr and Icon? Or do they blend together making a similer but differently pronouced word?
i fell into the kyuss trap the other day, some clarification would be nice.
it’s kye-us, it’s in the intro to their greatest hits album.
Phil is right.
Layyyy back, and strrretch your sack…
it’s like keywass
Naglfar
Nagl-far
NA-guhl-far
oh, i get it.
like this: insane clown posse would be fuk-ing payne-ted ree-tards
This.
Metallica: Metal-lika? ME-tall-ika? me-ta-lika?
MEH – tallica
win.
hah!
wi nnn
Celtic Frost, not Seltic Frost.
NecroFAYgist.
And when has there ever been any question about Vader? They are named after Darth.
tom fisher himself has pronounced it both ways, i think this one is more subjective
Tom Fisher is austrian, so he can’t even speak german properly, let alone english!
But no disrespect to his music.
There was the SOD song “Celtic Frost” in which Billy Milano says “Whatever happened to Seltic Frost?”
Scott Ian and the rest of those meatheads are sports fans so they’re probably using the “Boston Celtics” pronunciation. But if it’s not really a hard ‘C’ then I think Celtic Frost are stupid.
No shit… Vader has said many times in interviews that the inspiration came from Darth Vader.
Its becoming painfully obvious that the majority of the contributers to this site have been into metal for a very short period of time
The only time i have ever seen the “C” pronounced as an “S” is when it’s part of a spots teams name. Other than that, it’s a hard c.
I like to draw random conclusions from vague data too.
It’s not like it’s possible for people to be less aware of certain bands than others now is it?
How the f@$% do i pronounce Coalesce and Kylesa?
ko-a-less
fuck if i know the other.
Ki-Lay-Sah.
Nah, it’s Ky-lease-uh. I’m pretty sure anyway.
ko-uh-less
kye-less-uh
Coalesce is a standard English word so you can find that in the dictionary.
Kylesa is like yetzer says. Kai-les-uh
Kai-less-uh
im not sure if theres a band named this but its in alot of songs and lovecraftian lore…
cthulu is it Ca THU loo or ca TOO loo ive seen is spelt ctulu also
it’s ka-too-loo, the h is silent.
win for the lovecraft reference!!
speaking of lovecraft, another one would be nyarlathotep
is it: Na-YAR-la-tho-tep, YAR-la-tho-tep or NAR-la-tho-tep
NYAR-lat-HO-tep. The “hotep” ending has to be so, like Amenhotep, etc.
You need to refer to Lovecraft’s letters and correspondance to get the correct pronunciation for his creations. It is certainly not ka-too-loo, though. I know how to say it, but cant type it correctly. There are some muffled throat sounds involved…..
There’s multiple pronunciations you, asshat. You’re so full of shit it’s becoming painful.
Actually Biff is right, Lovecraft himself described it as “the closet the human mouth can come to pronouncing it right”, it’s actually closer to ‘cgthul – hoo’ the fist word all one syllable, you almost have to choke it out. He was tryi8ng to mimic an alien language, you can’t pronounce it with the same sound rules you use for English, it sounds silly then. It’s like when you read Japanese, it isn’t right in english becuase the sound rules are just different.
Lovecraft never endorsed a silent “h” in Cthulhu. I always pronounce “Nyarlathotep” as “Nee-yar-la-tho-tep”, which is also how The Darkest Of The Hillside Thickets do in their song of the same name (sung in Middle Egyptian, no less).
Speaking of Nyarlathotep, here’s my t-shirt design featuring the Messenger of the Outer Gods:
http://www.printfection.com/ArkhamBrewingCompany/Nyarlathotep-The-Crawling-Chaos-T-Shirt/_p_2083770
nice, ive also heard it lovecraft pronouncing it ca-lu-lu to mimick the hidious piping noises they used to communicate
http://www.cthulhu.org/cthulhu/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu
http://www.wordnik.com/words/Cthulhu/pronunciations
http://www.hplovecraft.com/creation/bestiary.asp
it seems there is no one universally accepted answer to the pronunciation.
And by the way, ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn. [sic]
Now good luck.
how about “In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming”
and thats about as close as im getting on that one
Good stuff. The “R’LYEH” shirt is *awesome*, but for the love of god offer it in black (or green or even purple). White only? Really?
I think Lovecraft meant for it to be a word that human’s are unable to pronounce.
But I think ke-THOO-LOO is the most common, no?
I actually always thought the C was silent, making it THOO-LOO, which is why it is sometimes spelled Tulu or Thu Thu, but I guess not.
here’s one for ya kiddies…
Anaal Nakrath
you tell me. cause i have no effin clue
you mean Anaal Nathrakh?
I thought of it as a soft A, so not like anal.
Uh-noll Nuh-thrack
Buttsecks
an-al nath-rak
It’s from the movie Excalibur, I think there’s a sample on one of the albums where you can hear Merlin chanting the name.
anal nutsack…thats how i pronounce it at least
I saw them on Saturday eve, and their pronunciation was hard A- n-soft double A
(almost drawled really) and then Nathrakh pronounced hard as you’d expect.
I used to say “Mah – Dook” until someone laughed and said “Mah-DUCK!!”.
I think mine sounds cooler though.
yours is right as well
Chimaira: KY-MAI-ra, KY-MI-ra, KI-MAI-ra, KI-MI-ra. I know that it’s pronounced KY-MI-ra, but it took me a while to figure out how to pronounce it.
Being they started as a shitty nu-metal band, they spell it wrong. The real pronunciation is kī-ˈmir-ə.
KAI-MIR-A
Well the true pronounciationn of Chimaira (being a greek word) is hi-meh-ra with a hard h!
It’s actually more like KI-MARE-UH
I have heard people say shit like CHIM-EERA, which is way the hell off.
I’ve always pronounced Vader like Darth Vader, simply because my brain cannot fathom doing it any other way.
And I know that DÅÅTH pronounce their name with a flat A, but with the Ås it should be pronounced Doath, much like the beginning of ‘ocean’.
I always assumed DAATH to be, well, “Dahth”
Well, the band named themselves after the sith lord himself, so it’s definitely Vader. VAY-DER.
Daath Vader
+9001 Galactic Credits
OVER 9000?!?!
Do a barrel roll.
99% sure Daath is pronounced like some “o” sounds, a la “Goth.”
(dawth, almost)
Eluveitie?
Is it el-VAY-tee?
El-oo-veh-tie. that’s how one of the members said it in an interview so for their sake i hope its right.
“Eluveitie” and the font “Helvetica” are both named from the same Swiss Gaulish tribe. Now you know… the rest of the story.
Helvetica would have been a better band name.
shit, I’m gonna call my band “times new roman”
El-way-tee, apparently. Fuck knows how, that’s crazy foreign languages for you I guess.
The band has stated is is pronounce “el-by-tee” (by would be using a “v”, actually)
*it is pronounced
I always wondered how to pronounce it. I heard one of the band members say it el-WAY-tee but then another one say el-oo-vay-tee
I’ve heard most of their band members pronounce it El-oo-weh-tee-eh, but if you say it like that, and you’re American, people are going to probably just punch you in the face. So even though I know how it’s SUPPOSED to be pronounced, I still say El-oo-veh-tee-ay
i’ve heard a couple different pronunciations, on the live album when they’re introducing themselves there’s more of a w than a v sound, and it sounds most like ell-way-tee almost, so i just always hurry the shit out of it when i say it so that no one can tell properly what i’m saying.
Be’Lakor?
Is it Bee lakor, bell akor, or something else?
I always presumed it was “beh-lah-core”, but now that I think about it, it could be “beh-lake-ore”… I’m going for my first choice…
byzantine
biz uh teen
Biz-un-teen
i’ve always heard buy-zan-teen
not saying it’s right though.
Surely it’s just by-zan-tine?
i thought it was by as well untill i got their dvd and oj said it bizatine so that settled that.
You can listen to the pronunciation here:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/byzantine
one i hear diffrent a lot
celtic frost
pretty sure its prounced like it should be spelled keltic, not like the boston celtics
Mors Principium Est?
It’s Latin and Latin always seems to be pronounced exactly as it looks (not that that’s correct, but I don’t think anyone really knows how to pronounce Latin any more)
The “c” is pronounced like a “k,” so it would read, “Mors Prinkipium Est.”
Are you sure?
Principium here means “first,” as in, “death comes first.”
This makes me think that the “c” is soft, as in principle, or incipient.
Anathema and Jesu
How the hell can you not pronounce Anathema ?
Uh-nath-ema (ema, like the girl name)
There does seem to be a lot of confusion over Anathema. I consider them one of my favourite bands of all-time, but for about two years I mispronounced their name as “anna-THEME-ah”, which I’ve heard a lot of people say. But yeah, it is “ah-NATH-emma”. At least that’s how their lead vocalist pronounces it onstage, so it’s a safe bet!
I’ve heard it pronounce ana-TEM-ah
Yay-zoo.
IHSAHN
EYE-SAUGHN?
ISH-IN?
Eye-Sahn
Ihsahn is actually a Hindu name for males. It means sun. We pronounce it as ee-shaan.
Akercocke (actually I know this one, but it’s fun to see people try and pronounce it)
Ayreon
Bal-Sagoth
Agalloch
Bodom (bottom or boe-tum)
Chthonic
Heavils (like heavy?)
Leng Tch’e
Spylacopa
Yyrkoon (wft?)
I just noticed Spylocopa backwards is Apocalyps
its BO-DUMB
or, children of bordem
Yyrkoon named themselves after the character from Michael Moorcock’s Elric series. It’s pronounced “yeer-KOON”. Agalloch is a kind of incense and it’s pronounced AG-uh-lok.
Akercocke?! Oh, man.
I’ve heard Mr. Laiho pronounce his band more like boo-dm, “Bodom.” (Silent night, Bodom Night!) But either way is acceptable. My aunt, not a metal fan, has called that band “Children of Boredom,” much to my amusement.
And how DO you pronounce Yrkoon?!
ear-coon
Ball Saggeth
just kidding…
If you listen to the Tokyo Warhearts album, Laiho calls them Children of Boo-dum…stupid. I’ve always pronounced Agalloch: Aa-gah-lok (I’m from NY, so I have a habit of sounding my A’s like Fran Drescher)
heavils is Heh vuls like “heavy” my buddy was friends with the band and that’s how they said it. always though it rhymed with “evils” myself. but that was wrong!
Does the first part of Akercocke rhyme with hacker or maker? I usually say it rhyming with hacker. But with a British accent of course, because they’re so British it’s ridiculous.
I heard it pronounced like this. Aker- rhymes with hacker. then cock-a- rhymes with rocka. Stress the “cock” syllable.
Children of BOH-DEM…I have heard people say BAHDEM, but the band members don’t pronounce it like that, and I think it sounds dumb.
Leng Tch’e = leng shay. It’s an ancient Chinese execution method commonly called “death by a thousand cuts.”
Kylesa?
see above discussion for kylesa.
EYE-AMM-STOO-PID
Kalmah?
Latin is usually pronunced as it is read in any language. For example, my mother tongue is Spanis: It’s been discussed in the official forums. It’s old Finish and the closest pronounciation would be something like “kahl-moh” (yeah, “moh” and not “mah”)
Celphalic carnage, different people i know pronounce it in different ways. Its not a hard one though
I think first you might want to spell the band’s name correctly.
Seph-Fall-ick Carnage
SEH-PHAL-IC
my first encounter with that problem was Chimaira, lol
Hacride?
Nachtmystium?
Nadja?
Ulver? It looks simple but I’ve heard a couple different pronunciations.
Nacht-mist-ee-um ( this is a really easy one…)
Ulver ??? How can there possible be a discussion of this one ?
its UL-VER….. how else have you heard it pronounced
ool-Vair
Really ? I’ve never heard that…. hmm
Was the person pronouncing Ulver that way French? Because that sounds entirely French.
Hacride is a French band — and as such, in concerts they introduce themselves using the French accent, for what it’s worth.
So that would be “ACK-RRREED”, with the “RRR” rolled in the throat like any regular French “R”, not the one you swallow and sounds like a “W”.
Note that it is in no fucking way a French word. (Or English, for that matter, unless I’m mistaken.)
it’s sad that several of you are struggling with band names that are english words. and vader? why was there ever a question about that?
what about drudkh? the pronunciation of sanskrit words is something that continues to escape me.
It is sad !!! How can someone not pronounce Anathema !?
Drudkh, Im not sure… and Im sure 99% of these people on this site have no idea who this great band is.
I’ve always pronounced it : Drood-Kuh
tomato
Toe-may-toe?
Tow-mah-doh?
please help.
Let’s call the whole thing off.
hahahah funny. win.
I know this is a really embarrassing question but i can never remember
Sepultura:
sep-ul-trah
sep-ul-too-rah
The second one is close
its actually :
Sep-ul-toor-rah
It’s sep-ul-too-rah (not “toor-rah”, that would be 2 rs and it would sound harsh, it’s a soft R)
That’s not what I’ve heard in inteviews with the band. I’ve always distinctly heard the extra R pronounced after the ‘too’
Or, perhaps the R comes in the 3rd syllable, not the 4th ?
as in:
Sep-ul-toor-ah
If the word is meant as in Spanish/Portuguese, then it’s the way I say it. The place where the R is doesn’t change a thing, as long as it is one R. The purpose is to pronounce it as a whole: sepoolturah
There is a Mars Volta song in which the word sepultura is pronounced: seh-PULL-trah.
I don’t know if that has any relevance to the pronounciation of the band, but food for thought. The lead singer speaks Spanish too, so there is legitimacy to this.
sep-ul (rhymes with pool) – toor – ah
Actually, Deaner, he’s saying “Sepulchres.”
Seh-PUL-cher-uh, or so I have thought since about 1992… it’s hard to write out the “pul”; it’s like you swallow the “u,” putting it somewhere between “pool” and “Paul,” I guess…
It’s “necro-pha-jist”. Here’s the first half of the world: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/necrophagous
Torche.
Torch, torch-ay, tor-shay?
Torch-gay.
Either “Torsh” or “Torch”
Definitely not “Torch-ay” or “Tor-shay”
Pretty sure it’s just torch.
Swedish metal band vildhjarta. Does anyone have any clue how to say that my guess is veel- harta but who knows. Any Swedish peeps out there?
I’m learning Swedish. It’s pronounced “Vild-ee-ar-ta” (vild = wild, hjärta = heart). Most Js in Swedish are pronunced like the I in “bingo”
Most J’s are pronounced like a Y in Swedish.
vil-year-tah
Nachtmystium?
Nach-mystium with a silent t?
No silent letters.
Nacht-mist-ee-um, as said above.
No, the “T” is not silent. Its a pretty easy to pronounce German word
Nacht is pronounced like:
Knock-T
“Knocked” actually.
huh ? Its a strong ‘T’, why would it be pronounced like a ‘D’ ?
well you don’t say knock-tuh or nahtched, you say knocked. it’s a t, but comes off the german tongue as knocked.
Nacht means night in German. my great-grandmother was from germany and that’s how she said it anyway.
i mean you don’t say knock-duh in english, know what i mean?
Yeah, I get what you are saying. We both pronounce it right, I think we are just spelling it differently phonetically ! I certainly don’t pronounce the “T” as “tuh”. I just put the “T” at the end of ‘Knock’ to show that the “T” is not silent as the previous poster thought.
Now that I re-read it, I supposed “Knocked” is the sound that I was going for
How do you pronounce the Swedish Viking metal band Thryfing?
Tir-Fing
I had a Between the Buried and Me jacket on, but the “B” of “Between” had been worn off.
One person, upon reading it, said “Who is EHtween the Buried and Me?”
First time I saw Testament artwork it was faded around the edges. I thought to myself “who the fuck are Estamen?!” Ah to be young and stupid…
What about Keep of Kalessin, Gojira, Neaera, Chimaira?
I know 2:
Go-gee-ra (the japanese name for godzilla, watch it in japanese, you’ll hear it)
Ky-mare-ah (the mythical beast of greek legend)
Thanks man.
Go-jee-ra
‘Gojira’ is actually French, so the J is pronounced like the S in ‘casual’.
And I’m pretty sure it’s ky-MEER-ah, but I guess either works.
Keep of CAL-eh-sin
Dimmu Borgir
Dim-mu Bor-jir?
Dim-mu Bor-gir?
I think its the j sound.
I think it sounds something like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYXbhruLnAA&feature=PlayList&p=B5410814A8693324&index=40
DIMYOU BOREGEAR
although some Americans tend to say BOREJEER
Piss Turkey.
piss-turkey.
peace Toorrk-eye
I think it’s Finnish.
Turisas
tour-ee-ses
ter-ee-sis
any idea’s?
I have another one, Isis?
Eye- Sis
Tuh-ree-ses, I think. Could be horribly wrong though!
The band says it Too-ree-sauce
all these Scandinavian metal bands. where’s the Swedish chef when you need him????
bork bork bork.
Random fact of the day, the Swedish Chef is the only Muppet with human hands.
LOL, us Swedes have metal and hot girls nailed down. How the fuck did the muppets end up with a chef that’s Swedish considering Sweden isn’t a culinary super power like say Italy or France. Or is that the joke?
Ensiferum
I always thought it was En-sif-er-um. But I met the dude in Dublin once, and he said, it was En-see-fear-um…then walked away. Douchebag.
A couple that I have questions with:
Suidakra
(Soo-da-kra or Swee-da-kra)
Thurisaz
Tristania
(Tris-tah-nee-ah or Tris-tan-ee-uh)
It’s as the Irishman said it. Thats also how they said it when i saw them at Summer Slaughter.
Tris-tah-nee-ahh is correct.
Thurisaz (pronounced Thoo-ree-sawz) is the third rune of the Futhark and of Freya’s Aett. It represents the TH sound for which there is no English letter equivalent. But in phonetics there is the (Thorn) symbol for it, which is a mediaeval variant of the rune.
I know this is really nerdy, but I enjoyed getting the history lesson on that one (no sarcasm). Thanks man
I saw Ensiferum in concert recently, and one of them pronounced their own band name En-SIF-fer-um. They were wearing kilts.
Unless they take their time to pronunciate it syllable-by-syllable, it’s really hard to hear a difference between “en-sif-er-um” and “en-see-fer-um”… same with whether the third syllable is pronounced “fer” or “fear”. I personally say “en-sih-fear-um”. Most of the time…
Kreator – Cree-a-tor
Brenoritvrezorkre I would imagine is a tough one.
Dødheimsgard
Taake (take? tah-kee?)
And of course…Paracoccidioidomicosisproctitissarcomucosis
im wondering about TAAKE as well.
i was thinking TOK but im definitely not sure at all
Meshuggah
i always hear people say meh-shoe-gah and others say meh-sug-a-nah.
deicide
is it de-ah-side or day-ah-side
demiricous
krisiun
myrkskog
obscura
viraemia
Mashugana (spelling?) is Italian slang for someone who’s crazy (i.e. he’s a little mashugana) – the band is spelled Mah-shu-gah
I believe Dee-ah-side is correct
Kris-ee-un
ob-skyoor-ah
(sorry, I don’t know proper spelling for syllables)
Meshuggener (pronounced meshuggenah) is most certainly not italian slang. It’s straight Yiddish. As is the related word “meshuggah”. Italian, my god. You must be crazy.
yeah, it’s yiddish. like a schlep, or schtickle of something. or being verklempt. coffee talk with linda richman
Korn ?
Tool ?
Snot ?
I have trouble with all of these pronunciations.
It makes sense that you can’t pronounce Korn, they threw that K in there instead of a C and it just fucks with everyone’s head. I believe the correct pronunciation is “doosh-mun-churr”.
this was a fun game. i you win the joke.
The singer from Necrophagist has said many times that you can pronounce it however you want. Which seems like he probably doesn’t know how it’s pronounced either. I just say Neckrahfuhjist cause it rolls off the tongue easier.
Vader is Vader…
Some of the ones I tend to hear people get confused about a lot are Dir en Grey(which doesn’t seem that hard to me), Dimmu Borgir, Drudkh(why do these all start with D?), Windir, and (obviously) SunnO))).
Yeah, how do you say SunnO))) ?! Sun OJ?
Just Sun. I’ve heard Atilla pronounce it SunO before, but seeing as he’s not technically a member, I’m not relying at that. Especially since he usually says Sun anyway.
In Japan, they pronounce it “Dee-ru ahn Gu-ray”, but whatever.
Speaking of Japanese pronunciations, I saw a Red Hot Chili Peppers dvd that documented a trip to Japan, and the Japanese fans were like:
“We ruv ooh-red-ooh hort-eh ooh-chirri-uh pepp-oo-aas”
good times
Meutley Crew-eh
What about Akercocke? The cocke part is obvious but I never know if the first part is supposed to rhyme with hacker or maker.
Any thoughts on Aenima, the Tool record? And while we’re on the Tool subject, how bout some of their songs…
Parabol
Parabola
Schism
Faaip de Oiad
Viginti Tres
AHN (ON)-EH-MA
Parabola is a regular English word, puh-rab-uh-luh
Parabol I have always pronounced as par-uh-buhl (like the word “parable,” meaning story)..Like the Tool word “Aenima” is a combination of “animus” and “enema,” I believe that “parabol” is a combination of “parabola” and “parable.”
“Schism” is also a regular English word, but a tough one. The acceptable pronunciation is “skiz-um,” but originally it was “siz-uhm”..both are correct. I think it’s interesting that there is a schism between the two schools of thought regarding the pronunciations of the word “schism!” Oh man, that is some great stuff for an English teacher nerd like myself. ;)
“The word schism, which was originally spelled scisme in English, is traditionally pronounced (sĭz’əm). However, in the 16th century the word was respelled with an initial sch in order to conform to its Latin and Greek forms. From this spelling arose the pronunciation (skĭz’əm). Long regarded as incorrect, it became so common in both British and American English that it gained acceptability as a standard variant”
as for the others, I’m not quite sure. I would probably go with Vig-In-tee trace (like Spanish “3″), but I have no idea..the second word could be “trey” like in French…as for “Faaip de Oiad,” I might say FOP-DAY-OH-ID (or AD?) but it could be WAAAAY off…I’ve never used those titles in conversation, I would refer to them as those noise/instrumental tracks off “Aenema” or from “10,000 Days”
Thanx for the in-depth response. I really appreciate that. Keep up the Englis teaching job. Sounds like it’s paying off. I could be wrong, but I think I heard from somewhere that Viginti Tres has some kind of Italian origin. Dunno. I’ll look into it. Thanx again.
Den Saakaldte
Urgehal
The above discussion (argument) didn’t really help:
Meshuggah
MESH-ugg-ah?
me-SHUG-gah?
I’ve wondered this… and it bugs the Hell outta’ me.
meh-sug (like sugar)-uh.
I get that, it’s just the emphasis I’m having problems with, I’ve heard it both ways posted above…
“me-SHUG-gah?”
that’s correct as far as I know. I don’t know anyone who pronounces their name with the emphasis on the “MESH.”
enseferum or en si ferum????????????????????????????????????????????
Korpiklaani?
Zyklon?- Maybe I’m overthinking this one.
Therion?- I may be overthinking this one too.
Korpiklanni is just like it looks. Core-pick-laah-knee.
Just my opinion on Korpiklaani, I’ve always pronounced it core-pi (like pit without a t, or pill without ll)-claw-knee
Zi-claw-n. but said smoothly. and that zi is like sigh, but with a z. zighclawn.
Lyfthrasyr. I believe they actually say liff thrass er
necro-GAY-jist
How about Eläkeläiset? Eh-lae-ke-laej-set?
can i ask if anyone knows how to pronounce agalloch??
looks like there are two pronunciations for “agalloch” (uh-gal-uhk and ag-uh-lok)
I’ve always used that first one, uh-gal-uhk, although the second one is interesting..
even though this is a fun piece deicide was one i always had trouble with to start with , how the hell can you pronounce vader wrongly? thatsjust stupid
Arghoslent: AR-go-slent?
Agalloch: AH-gah-lock?
Oceano: Oh-shee-AH-no?
Agalloch: uh-gal-uhk and ag-uh-lok seem to both be correct, although I use that first one
and your Oceano pronunciation is correct
don’t know about that first band.
When I saw Akercoke live they said Ake like Ache so it was Acher-Cockie.
Its Necro-fay-jist
also id like to know is trevor strnad pronounced
SCHRAD or SCHR-NAD.
Dan Swano = Dawn ZZZZ-von-oh
Vintersorg = Winter-sorg
Mikael Akerfeldt = Meek-ale Oak-er-feld
Celtic Frost = Kel-tick Frost(fuck anyone who says otherwise)
Ulver = ooohl-ware
how do you pronounce Elysia?
I don’t know if it’s already been asked, but I’m not about to scroll through 200+ comments for something so trivial.
Zyklon. Is it Zy-KLAHN or Zy-KLONE?
ZY-KLAHN, like the stuff they used in WW2
the word is pronnounced Zy-klahn but the band pronounces it Zy-clone
do they teach english in America ? lol the pronunciations i have seen here are shocking especially those bands of a persuasion outside of north america.
Since Muhammad said you can pronounce “Necrophagist” however you want, I just pronounce it:
BAY-bee RAY-per
Tsjuder and Tjolgtjar
Arsis?
Are-sis?
Air-Sis?