Metal band names invented by neural network

The question of the day: can a computer learn to sound metal?

Thanks to HellBlazer of http://www.metal-archives.com/, who provided a dataset of over 100,000 bands, subgenres, and countries of origin, I had an opportunity to find out.

I gave the dataset to an open-source neural network framework that I’ve previously trained to generate recipes, Pokemon, knock-knock jokes, pick up lines, and D&D spells. As usual the instructions were only to learn what the dataset is like and try to make more of the same. With over 100,000 entries to chew on, the neural network managed to produce results that were… well, surprisingly metal.

I give you: Band names, so far untaken, generated by neural network