Can you guess the band from these emojis?

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Happy World Emoji Day! To celebrate, we've recreated ten bands in the form of gurning yellow idiots. Can you name them all?

Ghost emoji

Emojis can be used for just about everything. There are smiley faces, sad faces, poos, aubergines, peaches, ghosts, frogs, pretty much anything you can think of in the form of brightly coloured pixels. But emojis aren't just used as fun ways to describe genitalia, they can also be translated into band names!

Below are ten band names in the form of emoji. Can you name them all?

Answers are at the bottom of the page. NO CHEATING.

ANSWERS BELOW

  1. Guns N’ Roses
  2. King Diamond
  3. Beartooth
  4. Pig Destroyer
  5. Five Finger Death Punch
  6. Ghost
  7. Devildriver
  8. Rammstein
  9. Of Mice & Men
  10. Dethklok

Can you guess the metal song from these emojis?

Luke Morton

Luke Morton joined Metal Hammer as Online Editor in 2014, having previously worked as News Editor at popular (but now sadly defunct) alternative lifestyle magazine, Front. As well as helming the Metal Hammer website for the four years that followed, Luke also helped relaunch the Metal Hammer podcast in early 2018, producing, scripting and presenting the relaunched show during its early days. He also wrote regular features for the magazine, including a 2018 cover feature for his very favourite band in the world, Slipknot, discussing their turbulent 2008 album, All Hope Is Gone.