While working at a record store (requiescat in pace my beloved New Moon) in college, my manager, a jazz musician and music aficionado, told me of a story of a group in the Czech Republic. The subject of the story wasn’t the ensemble’s music, but rather the name. See, this group, a gaggle of well-meaning, accomplished players, still hadn’t grasped the fine nuances of the English. And thus when interpreting ‘bad’ as a slang term for ‘good,’ the group figured what’s better than ‘bad’? Well, ‘worse.’ So, the jazz group eventually went on to be known as Worse. I couldn’t tell you if they were ‘worse’ or not, but this set-up is a tribute to the Czech Republic and all its weirdness.

Former Eastern Bloc countries like Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania exist in different realities from the rest of Europe, but the Czech Republic is by a long shot the strangest country – for metal, to be specific – of the lot. In the spirit (and tribute) of hilariously penned band names like Worse, I bring you Garbage Disposal, Invasion to Privacy, Government of Pansies, Choked by Own Vomits, Hormony Corruption (get it?), Dark Salad, Infectious Germs, Happy Death, Demented Retarded, Greedy Invalid, Grandmother Is Dead, Mincing Fury and Guttural Clamour of Queer Decay, Bonesaw of the Brains, Purulent Spermcanal, Grope for Thesis, Poppy Seed Grinder, and this gem of a name Destructive Explosion of Anal Garland. Excellent stuffs!

Check out Mincing Fury and Guttural Clamour of Queer Decay and Destructive Explosion of Anal Garland on MySpace. Give ‘em a ‘Dobrý den’ from Decibel!

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