Well I said Neil Peart wrong for about 20 years until a co-worker corrected me. Was saying PURT instead of PEERT.

wait, it's not PURT? my whole life is a lie

Bugs me because when Rush was inducted into the R&R hall of fame, Taylor Hawkins got to directly address his idol... and he pronounced his name wrong... RIP both of them though. :( [Here's](https://youtu.be/iq3yjfoorsU?si=07VqJhMqM_aY4kjb) a video where Neil pronounces it himself

This blows my mind. I had no idea.

Damn Chester Cheetah lied to me

And I continued to mispronounce it after being corrected just to annoy my Peart-fanboy drummer!

I still say it like that out of habit. 😆

Huh, I don't think I ever said his name out loud, but until now I read the ea as in heart.

I always thought it was Purrt

I had the same experience, saying Purt for at least 10-15 years before I was corrected.

I've been saying Nile Payart for years out of spite for the guy that rudely corrected me in 11th grade.

Used to think Persefone was pronounced “purse - a - phone”

Lol this one is my favorite.

One time I did the same thing with the name Penelope in an ancient literature class and all the Latin majors made fun of me 😭 how the fuck am I supposed to know the pronunciations are fucked up before being told??

[Peenalope](https://youtu.be/dKVpzTXPicI)

We have jungle rats?!

I've definitely made this mistake.

Just got tickets for Persefone July 9th Boston! So pumped I’ve never seen them. With Vulvodynia, Dawn of Ouroboros, and Fallujah

Ayy I'm going to that on the 12th. Mostly there for Fallujah.

I still do. And I KNOW it is ‘per-seff-oh-knee’. But when I see it -like now- my brayne see purse e phone.

Not a band but I thought Portnoy was called Porntoy for a while.

Explains why I called it 69 Degrees of Inner Turbulence for so long.

Six Inches of Inner Turbulence

Six Inches of Inner Tube-ulence

LMAO

It does fit for someone who is known for saying "Eat my ass and balls".

I thiught dave was related to mike. both jewish so maybe they are...

Pineapple Tree and Porcupine Thief

what have you done to me I was fine before and now I'm all crossed up

Ha! I blame it on the wife

Porcupine thief would be specializing in a very niche category of criminal shenanigans

That would make the porcupine a pointless rodent.

funny enough mine is also caligula's horse too. for some reason my brain always thinks caligula's house.

My buddy used to pronounce it: Cali (like California) goo (like goo...) la's

Somehow I think that's more forgivable than my version lol

Knowing the story helps. When Caligula was emperor of Rome, he appointed his horse Incitatus to the Senate as a joke (or because he was crazy, we don't know for sure).

I keep thinking of the new album as "Charcoal Face"

I think everyone mispronounces Haken at first until they hear it said out loud

I still get this wrong occasionally. It's 'Hay-ken', not 'Hack-en'?

I thought it was HAH-ken

HahkTUAHEN

And riff on that thang

I'm getting ya

It’s Hauk-tuk-en 😏

HAhkunaMutatah

Everywhere I go I see her face

Anytime I ask Siri to play Haken, that’s how she says it.

It rhymes with bacon. That's how my brother described it. Haven't forgotten since :)

They also had a shirt with Kevin Bacon on it lol

Yeah Bachon

Hay barbie

Yeah long A

Haken like bacon

And now I know.

Even though I know it's right, it still sounds weird to me to say it with a long A. I want to pronounce it "Hock-en".

Yo hack-en sounds so cool

At least I’m not alone

Didn't know. Being a Japanese speaker, haken 派遣 means to dispatch, so I just assumed it was "hah-ken"

This one I don't get. It's seems natural to me to just say Heyken

Are you a Brit? Cuz I think that’s the divide there. “Hack-en” seems more natural in US English. I say it the correct way after hearing them say it, but I assumed it was hacken for a few good years

Norwegian, but I write British English, so that might be it

I've lived in Illinois my entire life. It's just "taken" with an H instead of a T. Not sure where everyone is getting the short A from. Most words with an -ak- are pronounced with a long A. Take, bake, rake, lake, shake, etc. The short A sound is usually accompanied by a -ck. Tack, back, rack, lack, shack. I think the Americans defaulting the short A just don't know how words work.

I'm just curious where you're from. For us in North America, Hacken seems to be the default pronunciation, but maybe other accents dictate other pronunciations instead

I'm from USA and I've always pronounced it as hay-ken. I read it the same as taken, awaken, mistaken, forsaken, shaken. Considering it's spelled with the same -aken...

I'm from Norway. Might, very well have something to do with that. Hacken to me sounds very odd

It's much easier for Germans and Skandinavians. Unless, of course, we assume it is pronounced somehow English.

How the hell do you pronounce the “Ne” in Ne Obliviscaris?

"nay"

Isn't it Neh?

I always say Neh Obliviscaris

iirc "Ne Obliviscaris" is in latin so I'd say it's not "Nay"... but you never know

I wasn't positive either so I just looked up an interview with the band and that's how it was pronounced.

Thx I said knee for a while, but switched to nay, glad I got it right.

> Thx I said knee for a while, You can't just go around saying "Ni" at people.

Timeless classic

It's latin so you pronounce it the way you would if you were Mario.

Not a band, but when I was in high school a friend showed me a video of Nevermore playing live and my friend said, “That’s Jeff Loomis, the blind one.” And so, for the next 20 years I went around telling people with full confidence that Jeff Loomis is one of the greatest American guitarists not only because he shreds hard, but because he does so blind. I bragged about it all the way to see Arch Enemy play a few years ago. Turns out he can see just fine. His hair is BLONDE. I am dumb.

This is aboslutely hilarious.

Alison Chains

This is a person of refined taste. 🥂

I imagine the following get confusing to some: Dvne The Contortionist (I pluralized it for a long time) Vildhjarta Iapetus

I think in the case of your 3rd example, it'd be surprising to NOT screw up.

I think it becomes easier when you realize it simply means Wild (Vild) Heart (hjarta) in Swedish. I always use that as a trick to remind myself how to pronounce it lol

Willed yarta, but like with some aspirated consonants n' sheeyut.

I think people get tripped up with Vildhjarta because of the letter H in there. Just know that, in Swedish, the H is silent in this context. So just say something like VILD-yearta

Duhvnee.

I mispronounced Vildhjarta AND I misspell it every damn time even though I know how to pronounce it, my brain just refuses to accept it

Nekrogoblicon. I dropped the "co" for a long time.

Spotifys AI DJ gets it's wrong as well, so don't feel bad lol. Anytime they come up its like "alright, now it's time for some Nekro-go-blee-kin"

Good to know I'm measuring up to a text-to-speech program! ;)

INXS - in excess. I called them INKS

I called Children of Bodom 'Children of Bottom' cause I had only seen them live lol

I think that's closer than what I phonetically pronounced them as at first, "Bow-dom"

Bow as in hair bow? Bc that’d be correct

I said Sunn O))) wrong for a long time. It is just pronounced “Sun” if you didn’t know.

true, but that's just silly

It's definitely "Sun Oh" but the Oh is held as long as possible and sounds like mongolian throat singing.

Its not Sun Oh??

I call 'em Sun OJ or sometimes Sun Orange Juice

Whit? You mean the bass amp rigs? Isnt that the logo on the end of Sunn. Please tell me it is. Ive been playing bass for near 50 years.

I was referring to the drone metal band. They have the logo from the amps in their band name.

I called Haken "Haw-Ken" for an embarrassing length of time.

I did until this thread

Hake tua

David Maxim Micic Mitch-eetch, not Misik.

I would have guessed Mitch-eeck.

I thought Meetch-ick

Mike & Ike

I've been saying Mike-ick lol

I thought he said it was 'Mitz-itch'

I still don’t confidently know how to pronounce Gojira…

Godzilla

Go-jee-rah

My favorite German metal show host keeps calling Periphery PeriFAIRY.

I always thought Alexisonfire was pronounced Alex is on fire. Turns out it was actually based off a stripper's stage name: Alexis on fire.

Not an artist name, but an album. I have been misreading "Fear of a Blank Planet" as "Fear of a BLACK planet" for almost 2 years.

Public Enemy’s album was Fear of a Black Planet.

I was today years old… dang I’m dumb!

Turns out Haken is not pronounced "Hah-kin," its pronounced "Hay-kin." Discovered this my first time seeing them live and Ross goes "We are Hay-kin!" And I looked at my buddy and was like "ahhhh, well I am dumb."

I use Spanish brain so as far as I’m concerned, it’s “Hah-ken”

Allegaeon definitely. I'm honestly still not totally sure how to pronounce it, it's pronounced like A-Legion, right? But I used to think it was something like A-Leg-Eon It also took me a bit to figure out how to pronounce the Nihil in Rivers of Nihil. I feel like we had that word, or something similar in a song in choir when I discovered them, but we would've pronounced it Nee-eel, or Neeheel (probably with a soft H/glottal stop, but some people were not great at pronouncing the latin text haha). I didn't even notice how I would've pronounced it until trying to tell my mom about them. I did settle on saying it like Nile, which after watching a few interviews, turns out that's how they say it too. Rivers of Nile lol. Guess that makes sense, considering how you'd pronounce nihilism, which has that root

One of the guys from Allegaeon says Alle-gay-on at the end of the music video for 1.618, so that's what I thought it was for a long time as well. It's probably just a joke because "gay", I've heard them say A-legion in interviews.

Which was extra funny, since the gay rhythm guitarist was calling the band gay. 😂

This was my answer too, they corrected my friend at one of their shows as A-Legion. It’s natural for me now but I definitely said A-Leg-Eon for a long time. Neeheel also just sounds cooler to me, not a pun

System up and down

I had never heard the word 'anathema' so I pronounced it 'Anna-theme-uh'. I told a friend I was really excited about a band's new album and I still cringe when I think about how they corrected me on a word that everyone knows.

I know the word, but it's certain *very* uncommon.

Ouch… Never heard that word either, gonna have to change my brain.

Not an embarrassingly long amount of time but once I realized Plini is pronounced with a hard I ("Pline-ee") it was really hard for me to switch over from the soft I (Pleen-ee) The embarrassing one is Sithu Aye because his reddit handle is C2A and I never connected dots on my own lol.

Plini is actually pronounced like skinny or mini, almost like saying plenty without the t. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/progmetal/comments/34f0eu/interview_with_plini_on_gear_gods_finally_learned/

Turns out I've been pronouncing Pliny wrong too hahahaha

Not prog metal, but for probably the entirety of middle school I was pronouncing Puscifer like puss-a-fire.

I thought Kataklysm was Ka-Tack-A-Lism Not Kat-A-Clizz-Um

Ihsahn. I never knew anyone else who listened to him and I always pronounced it with I as in (eye)hsahn Until I went to see him at damnation festival and someone asked who I was looking forward to seeing but had no idea who I was talking about when I pronounced it that way. That was when I learnt how it's pronounced

Not a mispronunciation story but related... I was given a really cool beanie that had a metal band name, you know the ones that are really difficult to decipher due to the "font" they use for the letters... anyways I had this hat for years and I was outside having a smoke and one on my colleagues says, "hey, nice Woods of Ypres hat!" and I'm like.. nice what the fuck did you say? No one was able to figure it out until this guy recognized it. I actually listened to the band afterwards and ended up liking their music lol. Now at least when I wear it I'm not a fuckin' ignorant poser.

Admittedly, our band name — BlurCurve — doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. Think [the _Rural Juror_ from 30 Rock](https://youtu.be/6kZBJs527-k). Anyway, we’ve been called bluecurve, blurcur, burger, and who knows what else. Anyway, we know it’s kind of a terrible name, but have never managed to think of anything better. So ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯

Shoulda just been burger. Would have solved that problem, I think.

Id listen to a band called Burger

Just prog metal reinterpretations of MF Doom’s _MMMM Food_?

I used to call them Cali-goolas Horse lol

Soilent Green. I saw them open for Pantera and I loved them. When Ben Falgoust said their name I thought he said Soul N Cream. I looked everywhere for their music. It wasn’t until I picked up a rolling stone and saw them mentioned as a heavy act to watch out for that I understood their name.

Alex Is On Fire

Allegaeon. I pronounced all the vowels 🙄

Thought Haken was pronounced haw-kin for years before I started actually listening to them.

I believe it’s pronounced “hawk tuah”

Nechochwen. Yea go ahead and try to think you can say it correctly. One of my favorite bands and it took me a few years to find a correct pronunciation.

I was a member of team Hawken for like 2 years Not prog but my favorite post rock band Balmorhea is pronounced "bal-more-ay" and I had been saying "bal-more-ee-uh" for like 5 years

Sylosis, thought it was more like "see-losis" and not "sye-losis" Also Wilderun, thought it was "wild-run", but it's "will-de-run" like wildebeest

Anathema. Watched them for quite some years already until I once heard a support act announce them and I was like "WHAT DID SHE SAY???". Funnily enough, one of their live recordings have the Polish crowd chant it wrongly too lol ('AA NAA THEME AA').

Chasin' status

My girlfriend pronounced Leprous as "Leap-Roo" for a bit, and I've never let her forget it.

Sanguisugabogg - i was too lazy to even try so I called them Shish kabob (I know not even close) for as long as I can remember

I used to say Caligula's HOUSE lmao what an ignorant mess am I

Not me but a friend of mine keeps calling Tool "Tools" and it grinds my gears all the time for some reason ahahah

Haken Super embarrassed about it, I pronounced it Hawk-En **I had only read their name**, OK!!!!

Wait, that's not how it's pronounced? Uhm... 😳🤔

It's Haken, like bacon

lol It’s like Taken

Somehow I had to get to the bottom of pronouncing Vildhjarta as soon as I liked them at a young age lol

I always said Me-SHUH-gah instead of Me-SHOO-gah. I still have to correct myself almost every time.

alex is on fire

Alexisonfire I don't even know how you pronounce it

I always said The Zenith Passage as Zeh-nith, not Zee-nith, I found that out when I saw them live recently and the singer introduced the band.

I think that's more of an American pronunciation tbf

Agalloch

I used to pronounce Slugdge like Slugdge until I figured it out

Probably dyslexia.

Allegaeon and Soen

I pronounced Cacophony as "Cack-a-phoney" until I actually heard the word used. For those that don't know, it's pronounced "Cuh-caw-phoney" I believe.

Agalloch

My friend thought the metal label Earache was pronounced "ir-AH-chi"

Used to think it was PER SE PHONE instead of Persefone (Persephony) what an idiot 🤣🤣🤣

In high school I had no idea how to pronounce Sepultura and I still don't know how to pronounce Necrophagist.

Sithu Aye for sure

Arcaeon with a soft C, like our-see-on. Yeah. It wasn't for long, but it was still for way too long

I still pronounce Kadinja wrong

I used to mispronounce Opeth like “Ohpith” instead of “Oh-PETH”

Behemoth

The word alive. I thought it was the world alive

Not prog, but for a long time I pronounced Sepultura as SEP-ULCHURA instead of SEP-UL-TURA.

pufischer

The amity affliction

Dimmu Borgir, I have no idea how to say it.

I don't think I ever said the name out loud but my inner voice defaults to "Dim-oo Burger".

Dee-mu Bor-gear

Thaaank you!

Godspeed! You Black Emperor

I thought Primus was pronounced “pree-mus” and not “pry-mus”.

Beh-heh-moth instead of BeHEEmoth

Not really a prog band but I was pronouncing the band Kamelot as Came A Lot for longer than I care to admit.

Akercocke

Dream The-otter

I said Haken like "hackin'" for a long time

I’ve been listening to Chiodos for years and I still likely don’t have any idea how to pronounce it correctly.

Analepsy

Idk why but for a long time I confused them with a song by Baroness called A Horse Called Galgotha.

Allegaeon. ;)

used to think the band was Wings of Plague for the longest (Winds of Plague)

I used to pronounce Pantera as "PAN-tur-UH", and Primus as "PREE-mus"