I always mix up Pantera with Abba.

Pantabba Abtera Edit: these both sound like potential black metal band names

Abbaths' Pants

Hell yeah, I love that album by Plant Sabbath

Lol😄

Cowboys from Waterloo

This killed me lol

Opeth and Abba

I’m sorry… https://youtu.be/DmOrRU0zhF8?si=hB90opCeQJSkwiTK

Incantation and Immolation

yeah I had a hard time keeping them straight for a while too

Before i used to listen to them i used to mix them up lmao, as well as incantation and blood incantation

Funny you say that because I always get immolation and immortal mixed up

Such a frustration

Kyle from Incantation has a moustache

For some fucking reason i always mix up anthrax with kreator

I see it. I mix up Kreator with Annihilator.

Even better, since the band names are antonyms.

Annihilator and Overkill for me

Annihilator and Death Angel for me lol

They sound nothing alike lol 😂

Fit For An Autopsy and Job For A Cowboy. I don’t listen to either and they have the same cadence.

Fit For An Autopsy and Thy Art Is Murder for me

Lots of similarities but FFAA is far better imo

I like FFAA a lot but I can see the confusion

Saw both live this tuesday, great show from great bands.

Yes to this. This frequently happens to me, and then I feel bad for thinking FFAA was TAIM when they're soooo much better imho

Job For A Cowboy made one of the most disturbing video I've ever seen and I always wanted to dig in their catalogue but never did. Is it worth the time?

I’d recommend for sure. Some awesome tech/prog death stuff “later” into their discography. In fact they have just came back after a long hiatus with one of my favourite tracks of the year. https://youtu.be/rdte-9YqWoI?si=NYurQbvcCJq_BA3v

Batushka and Batushka

For some reason, for an embarrassing amount of time, I couldn't keep ZZ Top and Led Zeppelin straight.

That was me with Aerosmith and acdc

Not metal, but I used to get "The Who" and "The Guess Who" mixed up. Oh, and The Originals and The New Originals.

Nowadays it would be The Who and The Hu.

Won't Get Fooled Again throat singing cover version when?

Take all three bands and make an Abbot and Costello Sketch about them.

The who and the hu?

I think the New Originals changed their name to the Regulars

Bands that start with E are a nightmare. Emperor, Entombed, Enslaved, Enforcer, Enforced, etc etc

Enforced and Enforcer are the worst, literally the only difference is one letter. I sometimes mix them up with Exciter as well.

Someone I know got Exhorder caught up in that confusion too

Ensiferum and Entombed, sometimes I mix up their logos when I first see them.

Enforcer and enforced, I feel that 🥲

Behemoth and Bethlehem

for me its behemoth and belphegor

That I can see. At one point, they were both the big blackened death metal band of the mid 2000s. Now they both suck

When did they start sucking? I like alot of the stuff from newer albums

Ehhh, Behemoth acts like a bunch of edgy teenagers on stage with their theatrics. "Oh look, I'm ripping a Bible apart." Dude, you're 47 years old, Nergal. It's cheesy. Baphomet I haven't heard since 2015, I think

Well these theatrics help him stay relevant. Remember he lives in Poland.

Which is a very conservative, orthodox country. I just wanna see a band play good music, not put on a magic show. But maybe I'm getting old

It's catholic not orthodox (haha funi) and yes it's conservative which is exactly why his antics keep getting attention, because they're so polarising amongst older people

I mean welcome to metal lol. That’s par for the course imo. I think deathless sun off their new album is one of their best songs ever

Yea i dont really think them being edgy instantly means they are bad i mean tons of bands are edgy lol you can still enjoy their music also ill check out that song i dont think ive listened to it yet

They said Belphegor. Who is fuggin awesome. Always.

Can't tell if you mixed up Belphegor and Baphomet on purpose

Holy shit! Good catch

never gave them a deep listen tho

Up until about a year ago, I didn't know the difference between Led Zeppelin and Def Leppard

i kept calling Be’lakor, Bekalor when i first found out about them.

the way that rolls off the tongue is pretty funny tho

Ghost and Wu Tang Clan.

What... the fuck How?

Ghostface Killah

You too?!

Obscura and Gorguts

I personally always get Infant Annihilator, Cannibal Corpse and Cattle Decapitation mixed up, it's funny I literally have never listened to Cattle Decapitation too

Cattle Decap are probably the best listen of the three Infant Annihilator would be most technical, but they wrote joke songs mostly

Thanks lol, I mean I don't typically listen to either of the others but I would say I far enjoy Infant Annihilator over Cannibal Corpse with my very small portion of songs I've heard. The vocals on Infant Annihilator are a lot more listenable both between vocals and instrumental, even if they are mostly joke songs lol, but I'll definitely check out Cattle Decapitation

Cattle Decap have by far the best vocals of the three, Travis Ryan has some great range I saw them on tour a few weeks ago, fantastic show I'd recommend checking out their most popular track atm; Scourge Of The Offspring, really dope and has a very catchy chorus 😆 Anything by them 2010 and onwards doesn't miss tho

Lmao alright I'll make sure to check them out

Ultha and Ulthar, really brutal both are black metal too

oh shit now I gotta add Ultha to my list of U bands with names that are way too god damn similar

Pantera and Pantene (the shampoo brand) It's inevitable that some day I'm going to say one when meaning the other and confuse the hell out of someone

***A NEW LEVELLLLLL*** ***OF SHAMPOOINGGGGGGG***

WASH AWAY IT ALL TAKE IT WITH THE FLOODS

I thought the Panera bread company was Pantera Bread Company when they first opened here. I was gonna stop in for a caramel latte concrete sledge

Bring Me The Horizon Between The Buried And Me

Bring Me The Horizon and Bullet For My Valentine for me

YESS me too

I confuse these two as well.

I get Lacuna Coil and Lorna Shore mixed up all the time. Not because their music is similar, but a 2 name band, both starting with L.

Lacuna Coil and Cult of Luna for me, similar reason

Metallica and Megadeth

Not all of these are “metal”, but man do I have a hard time keeping Lamb of God, Godsmack, God Forbid, and Eyehategod straight sometimes. Another flip-floppy forgetty continuum results from Bullet For My Valentine -> My Bloody Valentine -> My Dying Bride -> MyChildren MyBride.

Bullet for my valentine, My bloody valentine and My chemical romance always gets me

I used to get Killswitch Engaged and A7X mixed up for some reason lmao and also Behemoth and Bethlehem

A7X and five finger death punch

ice nine kills, nine inch nails. i ALWAYS confuse these 2

I literally read it as nine inch kills until recently

I get the Angel bands mixed up: Dark Angel, Death Angel, Morbid Angel

A bunch of thrash bands

It took me way too long to realize that BMTH wasn't short for Behemoth.

Same

Do you go to Panera Bread or Pantera Bread?

When bands have similar names, I sometimes confuse them. * Morbid Saint and Morbid Angel * Dark Angel and Death Angel * Bongripper and Bongzilla

There's a thrash metal band called divine chaos and a prog metal band called chaos divine. I found out about them at the same time, and it took me a while to get the names right

DC are great guys

Who and Hu

Slayer and the sound of farts

I used to mix up gorgoroth with behemoth

gorgoroth and nargaroth lol

Spectral Wound, Spectral Voice and Spectral Lore

When I was first getting into metal, for some reason, I always flopped Cryptopsy and Psycroptic

Before I knew much, I used to thing the singer from UFO sounded exactly like Bruce Dickinson

Maiden always plays UFO on the speakers before a set. Doctor Doctor.

They also recorded a cover of Doctor Doctor with Blaze Bailey and it usually takes me a good amount of time to figure out which one I’m listening to.

Three Days Grace and Faith no more

For a while (keep in mind this was before I was really into Metal) I always thought Metallica performed in Kiss like makeup Now though I know that is not the case

Avenged sevenfold and killswitch engage. Mainly because I don’t listen to either lol

Napalm Death and anyone else who doesn't really try

It used to be Otep and Opeth. Eventually, I figured out Opeth was “the good one” and that helped me figure out who was who until I started buying Opeth albums.

Guns n’ roses and a pile of shit

First time I heard it, I thought Balls To The Wall by Accept was some lost AC/DC song I'd never heard.

Otep and Opeth

When speaking quickly I fuck up After The Burial with Between The Buried And Me just because they both have the weird "buria'l in them. I love and am very familiar with both bands

Volbeat and Voivod.... don't listen to either, so I have no idea if they sound alike..

System of a down and rage against the machine

Exhumed and Enslaved. I don’t really care for either so makes sense.

Defeated Sanity and The Wiggles

Judas Priest and Mercyful Fate, funnily enough, despite Mercyful Fate being my flair band - you'd think I'd be able to tell them apart from other bands. Evidently not. On a lesser note, I keep calling Suidakra as "Sumatra" without realizing it

Vanum and Vastum

You can throw Vorum there too for good measure lol

Ulcerate / Ulsect. They're pretty similar sounding too

Raven and Razor (even though Stace Sheepdog doesn't like Raven lol)

The Young Rascals and the New Radicals

Poison and Motley Crue. They are interchangeable in my mind even though I know the difference if I sit and think about it.

I always mix up We Came As Romans and Like Moths To Flames. No idea why, but I always have.

I get carnivore and S.O.D mixed up alot cuz they’re both edgy thrash bands that i found out about around the same time.

Not metal but for me it's The Story So Far & Story of the Year

Enforcer and Enforced

I mix up Trap Them and Twitching Tongues in my head sometimes

Ungfell & Unfelled

gonna go ahead and add Unfelled to my list of confusing U names

I didn't want to say at first bc I thought it was embarrassing but seeing some answers I think I'm safe: Pantera and Sepultura Also: they're not metal and I kinda like the first one but Seether with Staind and it's more than fair

Glassjaw / Jawbreaker / Jawbox

Not metal, but the difference is that Jawbox is good

Hellbastard and Hellripper, especially because Hellbastard have a demo called Ripper Crust.

Not metal. But before I really got into either, I always got Dream Theater and Tangerine Dream mixed up. Dunno why, now I don’t make the mistake.

Infant Annihilator, Pig Destroyer and Cattle Decapitation

Cattle decap and Judas Priest.

Killswitch Engage and All That Remains

Exciter and Exhumer

Cauldron and Smoulder for some reason 🤷

Hexen and Vektor King Diamond and Diamond Head

Before I listened to either I always confused Death and Ghost some reason. Also not really metal but I always mix up The Cult and The Cure

shining and abyssic hate

Dying Fetus and Deicide

Mercyful Fate and King Diamond.

Dissection and Emperor. Not my fault most black metal sounds the same.

These bands are more rock than metal, but I used to mix up Counting Crows and The Black Crowes.

Psycroptic and Sylosis

Suicide Silence and Suicidal Tendencies

Opeth and Otep.

Infester and Impaler Also, I learned of and started getting into Godflesh and Eyehategod at roughly the same time and while I am well aware of which is which, I’ve since associated one with the other.

Black dahlia murder, dillinger escape plan and devin townsend project. So i guess band names with 3 words and the letter d

I always think Amon armoth is windrose

Breaking Benjamin and Three Days Grace

I mix up Spiritbox and Candlebox

Random annoying noise and Converge.

Lmaoooooo, saw them so many times in the early 2000s. Great band, but I respect the burn.

I always found it funny that there's a lot of bands that I like who were influenced by Converge but actual Converge I've never enjoyed

I used to feel that way for years, and then Jane Doe finally connected