14 Google Products That Are Also Metal Bands

1. Chrome

As a bonus, their greatest hits album is titled Chrome Box.

2. Earth

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=G4M_Np53-A0.

Pioneers of both drone-doom and geospatial topography.

3. Droid

Technically it’s Motorola, but close enough.

4. Zeitgeist

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=6Bx5njQrqkQ.

Google’s annual trend report has inspired at least four metal bands, including this one from Austria.

5. Nexus

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=g_RGReMzaOs.

One of Google’s least successful products is also one of its least satisfying metal bands.

6. Latitude

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=sf1WPzuwWUA.

A Foursquare-style mobile app and the sludge metal quintet behind 2009’s Agonist.

7. Drive

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=3u-yUb46QNU.

An early-90s hair metal band, of course.

8. Io

Currently active in Belgium, and completely unaffiliated with Google I/O.

9. Aardvark

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=L2hID1XhTB4.

Google’s defunct social search platform lives on in this German thrash metal outfit. Lyrical themes are listed as “personal” and “hate.”

10. Moon

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Sf48h9AFQdo.

Both the band and the application map the surface of the moon, but in very different ways.

11. Alert

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=64jLqIDklKM.

A straight-edge Belorussian band signed to the Extreme Brutal Sound label.

12. Scholar

Both an academic database and the band behind such hits as “Would You Like Lies With That?” and “Zombies At My Manhood.”

13. X

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=oCtq3-rAmTw.

Technically more punk than metal, but Google X was more of a labs project, so it evens out.

14. Glass

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Fav9qcAxrc0.

We can only hope Project Glass turns out better than this.