{"id":119890,"date":"2021-02-23T08:23:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T16:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/introducing-this-band-isnt-real-a-metal-band-name-generator-that-uses-artificial-intelligence"},"modified":"2021-02-23T08:23:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T16:23:21","slug":"introducing-this-band-isnt-real-a-metal-band-name-generator-that-uses-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/introducing-this-band-isnt-real-a-metal-band-name-generator-that-uses-artificial-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"Introducing This Band Isn\u2019t Real, a metal band name generator that uses artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/introducing-this-band-isnt-real-a-metal-band-name-generator-that-uses-artificial-intelligence2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Band names often come about in weird and wonderful ways. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/the-top-10-best-black-sabbath-songs\">Black Sabbath\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/black-sabbaths-geezer-butler-my-life-story\">Geezer Butler<\/a> named the band after a Boris Karloff horror flick, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/the-50-best-led-zeppelin-songs-ever\">Led Zeppelin<\/a> took inspiration from a prediction about how the group might fare (Keith Moon apparently said they\u2019d go down \u201clike a lead balloon\u201d). And then there\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/the-story-behind-the-song-how-you-remind-me-by-nickelback\">Nickelback<\/a>, excitingly named after a tradition in which singer Chad Kroeger \u2013 then a Starbucks employee \u2013 would give his customers a \u201cnickel back\u201d in change.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes finding the inspiration that will define your band isn\u2019t always such a natural process. Step in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ai_metal_bot\">This Band Isn\u2019t Real<\/a>, a Twitter account that generates fake band names and fake album titles via artificial intelligence. It even generates the appropriate artwork.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Band names often come about in weird and wonderful ways. Black Sabbath\u2019s Geezer Butler named the band after a Boris Karloff horror flick, while Led Zeppelin took inspiration from a prediction about how the group might fare (Keith Moon apparently said they\u2019d go down \u201clike a lead balloon\u201d). And then there\u2019s Nickelback, excitingly named after [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}