Friday, June 6, 2014

Spaceship names from Heavy Metal soundtrack

The tunes from the movie Heavy Metal include some song titles that would make great names for ships in your sci-fi game, whether roleplaying or wargaming.  For example, I can imagine some Free Trader or Dreadnought with one of these designations:
  • Heavy Metal
  • Radar Rider
  • True Companion
  • Queen Bee
  • Veteran of the Psychic Wars
What other song titles would make good starship designations?
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7 comments:

  1. UnknownJune 7, 2014 at 10:03 AM

    Dang, that's a good thought. Let's see...

    "Waxies Dargle," "Fairytale of Old New York," "Limerick Rake," "Turkish Song of the Damned," "Billy's Bones," and "Wildcats of Kilkenny." Ah, the Pogues.
    "Pluto Drive"
    "Der Komissar" (Yeah, THAT one)
    "Emergence," "Fibron," "Mutagenic," "Karakorum," or even "Tribal Doom," all from the Auto Assault soundtrack.
    "Kokomo"
    "Chantilly Lace"
    "Bad Moon Rising" and "Fortunate Son"
    "Karma Chameleon"
    "Spirit in the Sky"
    "Adiemus" and "Palladio"
    "Blue Monday"
    "Red Right Hand" and "Black Betty"
    "Hope of Deliverance"
    "Trinity Infinity"
    And, naturally, "Eye of the Tiger."

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  2. AnonymousJune 7, 2014 at 10:37 AM

    Brothel Ship.

    Now I have to put one of these in my next sci-fi game.

    -Ed

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  3. HoldFastJune 7, 2014 at 9:38 PM

    How about Iron Maiden albums?

    "Powerslave"
    "Number of the Beast"
    "seventh Son of a Seventh Son"
    "From Fear to Eternity"
    "Maiden England"

    Or other reference to the Heavy Metal movie
    "One way ticket to Midnight"
    And
    "Nose Dive!"

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  4. UnknownJune 8, 2014 at 12:33 AM

    Careful what names you pull out of Heavy Metal. I seem to recall a certain Harry Canyon... >_>

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  5. J Womack, Esq.June 9, 2014 at 10:38 AM

    "Bohemian Rhapsody"
    "Hotel California"
    "Stray Cat Strut" - tramp freighter
    "Renegade"
    "Beelzebubba"
    "Hellbilly"
    "Desperado"
    "Suspicious Minds"

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  6. Ghengis VaughnJune 19, 2014 at 11:33 AM

    Oooh! Oooh! I want to play!

    Rob Zombie:
    "Dragula"
    "Super Beast"
    "Creature of the Wheel"
    "Thunder Kiss 65"

    Red Hot Chili Peppers:
    "Death of a Martian"
    "Jungle Man"
    "Porcelain"
    "Storm in a Teacup"

    and last but definitely not least

    DETHKLOK:
    "Thunderhorse"
    "Hatredcopter"
    "Murmaider"
    "Castratikron"
    "The Gears"
    "Burn The Earth"
    "Black Fire Upon Us"

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  7. AnonymousSeptember 10, 2014 at 9:57 PM

    I used a number of Iced Earth and My Dying Bride song titles for my Battlefleet: Gothic ships. For some reason overwrought metal titles make interesting ship names.

    MDB:
    "Fever Sea" - fusion lance carrier
    "Corva et Rosa" two light cruisers.
    "Dreadful Hour" - a heavy battlecruiser converted for planetary assaults.
    "The Light at the End of the Stars" - Tzeentch-aligned demon ship
    "Taste of Winter" - cruiser

    IE:
    "Angel's Holocaust" - Inquisition Black Ship
    "Stormrider" - Line cruiser
    "Solitude" - scout cruiser
    "Chosen Path" - Chaos Cruiser
    "Disciple of the Lie" - Chaos cruiser
    "The Reckoning" - Imperial cruiser

    Iron Maiden:
    "Wrathchild" - Imperial heavy cruiser

    Dimmu Borgir:
    "Mourning Palace" - Imperial battleship
    "Stormblast" - a gun-battery cruiser.

    Danzig:
    "Firemass" - Imperial heavy cruiser

    And finally -
    "Edmund Fitzgerald" - a line cruiser that has been, to date, crippled in every single game I have ever played, but never sunk.

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