Battletech Heavy Metal

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

Was just sort of having a random thought exercise about how many mechs/other units in Battletech have names that tie in with heavy metal or hard rock bands.  I'm pretty sure most of them are coincidental but I was wondering just how many people could think of.

Mastodon (pretty obvious)
Vixen/Incubus (two bands for the same mech)
Behemoth
Man O' War/Gargoyle (another two bands for the same mech)

Those are just a few I thought of off the top of my head, what else can other people come up with?

[Gray_Noton_4lfe]

Marauder

[Mostro Joe]

I thought we were talking about the old software to create and print Mech Sheets 

[Kit deSummersville]

No Wasp? Serious fail!

Apparently Stinger is also a band.

[Euphonium]

The Scorpions...

[Jal Phoenix]

For clarity, the 'Mech is spelled Man O' War, but the band is just Manowar.

There is the mercenary unit The Metallicon, which I think is a reference to some band or another, maybe Jethro Tull.

And while I am disappointed in BattleTech writers (including myself) over the lack of some kind of unit named Therion, I do not hold my breath for a Toad the Wet Sprocket OmniMech.

[OrokuSaki]

Emperor
Thor
Venom

If we jump into AeroSpace, then Slayer too.

[SteelRaven]

Annihilator

Battlemaster

Hellbringer

Warhammer

[Prospernia]

Now I'm thinking of making mechs based off of heavy-metal bands now; like the Overkill: with like three or four AC/20's; I don't know how I'm going to do it.

or the Metallica-mech, which is just as similar mech the other side has.

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

I'd say that Overkill is a star of Hellstars.

[SteelRaven]

Overkill would be the Grand Titan Vengeance or Annihilator Gausszilla

[Charistoph]

There are a few punny units out there not associated with bands, like the J. Edgar Hover tank.

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

I have to say that I've always kind of hated that hovertank, since it's name exists pretty much 100% for the pun with no in-universe logic for why anyone would choose that name.

[Brym]

I have to say that I've always kind of hated that hovertank, since it's name exists pretty much 100% for the pun with no in-universe logic for why anyone would choose that name.

I mean, J. Edgar Hoover was a person in-universe.  Although that's probably a pretty obscure figure to pluck out of history to use for a pun in the year 2722.

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

Yes, that's the issue.

[Charistoph]

Like it's any different than 'Mechs being called after Heavy Metal bands?

[ColBosch]

I mean, J. Edgar Hoover was a person in-universe.  Although that's probably a pretty obscure figure to pluck out of history to use for a pun in the year 2722.

This has changed as of the IlClan Recognition Guides, thankfully.

Like it's any different than 'Mechs being called after Heavy Metal bands?

I don't think any of these are named for the bands, it's just coincidence. They're all real English words.

[MoneyLovinOgre4Hire]

In many cases, the name was used for a battlemech before the band formed.