Sounds Like a Metal Band: Fun with DALL-E and Stable Diffusion
In this article, we use DALL-E and Stable Diffusion to illustrate what people of the internet want to hear on vinyl, using one generative model at a time.
Created on September 4|Last edited on June 12
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When memes were phrases that people repeatedly interjected into a conversation to elicit a "heh," a classic trope was to append "sounds like the name of a metal band" to an unrelated topic of particular brutality.
Here we bring our hair-band fantasies to life with a harebrained scheme: Let's use AI image generation to illustrate some album art for Twitter's favorite Imaginary Head Bangers.
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Some of the results are very creepy and/or disturbing. There's a healthy dose of uncanny valley in some of what follows. (Hey, what follows kinda sounds like a...)
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First up, Machine Boys:
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Next we have Legit Snarl:
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“Legit snarl” sounds like the first band to take the stage at a 12-band death metal show. https://t.co/lPu8bKmq3h
— Stephen Burns (@srossburns) September 2, 2022
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Next let's look at the hardcore band Inventive ways to die:
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"Inventive Ways to Die" sounds like a neat name for a metal band
— KartRider: Drift (@KartRiderDrift) August 30, 2022
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Every serious metal fan nose about Deviated Septum:
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Does anyone like nasal vocals?
“deviated septum” sounds like a scratchy font metal band i woulda listened to in 2013 except in reality it’s just that my nose is squiggly
— craig johns jr. (@craigjohnsjr) September 1, 2022
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Night panther is known for howling at the moon:
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Nightpanther sounds like a badass metal band I would have formed in the 80s
— Pug who loves Kuwabara Says : #Transrights #BLM (@Pug_King4444) September 3, 2022
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Wrapping up
Hope you enjoyed this tour of some emerging brutal artists. What fun and silly experiments are you running with these new image generation tools? Comment below!
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