10 http://www.metalblade.com/us/artists/cataract/ & http://www.webmd.com/eye-health/cataracts/default.htm
9 http://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/mental-disorders/what-is-cotards-syndrome1.htm &
http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Cotard_Delusion/Le_D%C3%A9lire_de_N%C3%A9gation/217917
8 http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/leprosy-10651 & http://www.metal-archives.com/search?searchString=leprosy&type=band_name
7 http://www.cdc.gov/plague/maps/
& http://septicshockband.com/ & http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Septik_Shock/3540303888
6 http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Jungle_Rot/1094 & http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110321084656AABGOV9
5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse#Pestilence.2C_War.2C_Famine.2C_and_Death & http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/artists/pestilence/bio
4 http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/158770.php & http://www.taang.com/bands_ganggreen_body.html & http://www.last.fm/music/Gangrene
3 http://www.blackdeathband.com/ & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death
2 http://www.denguefevermusic.com/home.cfm & http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/dengue-fever-directory
1 http://anthrax.com/ & http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/anthrax/ & http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/19/AR2010021902369.html
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Hm, most of these diseases aren’t obscure at all.
While the band is most likely named after the disease, it may also be named after white water rapids; a cataract is also place where water flows really fast over rocks and stuff.
You should have put the punk band Gang Green and not the dumb rap group. Their album Preschool could have filled up that entire video posted. They were speed freaks when it came to harDCore punk. They always reminded me bands like D.R.I. and Discharge.
I gotta throw in for Tourniquet, tho. Those guys’ first 3 albums were like medical textbooks. Some sample song names….
The Test for Leprosy
Somnambulism
Psychosurgery
Vitals Fading
Broken Chromosomes
Stereotaxic Atrocities
Impending Embolism
Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance
Phantom Limb
Ruminating Virulence
Spectrophobic Dementia
Gelatinous Tubercles of Purulent Ossification
Exoskeletons
And they’re still around. New album “Antiseptic Bloodbath” came out last year and is frakkin’ AWESOME.