Proper Band Name Pronunciations By The Artist Themselves (Vol. 1) | Metal Injection

Have you ever wondered what is the right way to pronounce your favorite band names? Metal Injection has you covered as we ask the artists themselves to send a quick tip on the proper pronunciation for our sake, and theirs!

00:00 Heilung
00:13 Eluveitie
00:25 Vitriol
00:36 Gost
00:44 Deluge
00:53 Atrae Bilis
1:04 Gaerea
1:06 Iotunn
1:16 Hiraes
1:25 Nytt Land
1:33 Solstafir
2:00 Thy Catafalque
2:10 Der Weg Einer Freihiet
2:20 Persefone
2:52 Slaegt
3:44 Feuerschwanz
3:52 Cirith Ungol
4:08 Sanguisugabogg
4:39 Einherjer
4:49 Månegarm
5:12 Regarde Les Hommes Tomber
5:23 Vried
5:31 Skálmöld
6:05 Be'lakor
6:22 Melechesh
6:55 Aephanemer
7:05 Agathodaimon

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[simianresistance]

Maybe lower the background metal on pronunciation videos.

[mikebot]

1:04-1:07 Just Gaerea. Straight and to the point.

[robbgreally]

Brilliant video, although the background music is very distracting and makes it difficult to hear the artist at times

[SuzanaValenca]

I love the nice people in this video who also explained what the band names mean.

[AvB.]

"It's Atrae Bilis. I think." 😅 When the artists themselves aren't overly confident in pronouncing their own band name... Eluveitie & Einherjer were probably the ones I was the most wrong.

[xFFxGIRLx]

Awesome editing .... Can barely hear what they're saying cause the music is too loud.

[rowanrobinson]

The Manegarm one was classic. Made me look them up and they've got a new fan.

[WMfin]

* adjusts his glasses *
Time for me to nitpick: Cirith Ungol is a name of a place in Tolkien's books. It is elvish, Sindarin to be exact and letter c is pronounced more like k than c, so it would be closer to "Kirith Ungol"

[Maedroth]

Half of these entries can be summed up as:
"You pronounce our band name as: *drowned out by background music*"
Fan-bastard-tastic editing there like.

[inspectorevo]

Cool idea. Wish I could have heard half of them.

[IceDragon]

Hey Metal Injection thanks for putting music over the pronunciations so that we couldn't hear the pronunciations and thus still can't pronounce them

[lastniteintown]

Thank you for this! Request for vol 2... Wiegedood!

[yinzthrone]

Good and helpful but background music is mixed too loud. Take it down a notch next time. 🤘🏼

[lightbright]

My favourite one is DIR EN GREY = diiru an gu-ray
german / french / english, but pronounced in japanese.
Never heard any native english speaking person name them correctly.

[DeadlyRivfader]

The Tolkien nerd in me forbid me to pronounce Cirith Ungol the way the band does

[MajesticDemonLord]

Manegarm win for the most hilarious segment. 10/10 lads.

[razvanrepciuc]

Hearing a frenchman ask his audience to properly pronounce a long ass french band name properly then pronounce it in a regional accent that sounds goofy to 80% of francophones is peak French pedantry.

[Lintmusic]

Next volume, gotta get a member of Einstürzende Neubauten to help us all non-German speakers out

[durnheim]

They made an error in the text of one the simplest band name: Vreid not Vried!

[m.infernal]

the word "Cirith" was created by Tolkien. It is pronounced "Kirith". Americans like to mispronounce words with "C's". Similar to how they incorrectly say "Seltic" for the word "Celtic". It is "Keltic". KELTIC FROST
KIRITH UNGOL