Originally Posted by Janszoon

I think you may have missed what I was getting at with my post. Being shocking and brutal is pretty central to what death metal is about as a genre, the names reflect that. That's all there is to it. Look at bluegrass: Why do bluegrass bands have names like the Foggy Mountain Boys? Because a name like that relates to the kind of rural, downhome image most bluegrass bands try to project. Same kind of deal with death metal except in that case they are trying to project an image of horror and brutality.