How do you pronounce that and what does it mean?

So what does SUHGARIM mean? Apparently no one really knows what our name means, or so it seems. Perhaps an explanation is in order. People have been asking, so here goes.

In it's pure form SUHGARIM means absolutely nothing except the name of a rock band from Columbia, SC. However, it is a play on words. Or word actually.

The original name is taken from the ENUMA ELISH which is a Babylonian creation myth which is most likely Sumerian in origin. Sumer was one of the early civilizations of the Ancient Near East, located in the southern part of Mesopotamia (southeastern Iraq) from the time of the earliest records in the mid 4th millennium BC until the rise of Babylon in the late 3rd millennium BC, we're talking way back. Thousand of years before Judeo Christianity to be exact.

Sumer together with Ancient Egypt and the Indus Valley Civilization is considered the first settled society in the world to have manifested all the features needed to qualify fully as a "civilized society". The name SUHGARIM is taken from one of the fifty names of power for their god who was actually the creator of all gods. In that context SUHGARIM which was the 21st name of power, SUHGURIM, means he who insures a hearing and creator of the gods, his fathers. May his name be evoked and spoken in the land!

So why the word play? Well for one, there are other bands that have taken that name as their own. Which leads to reason number two. Branding. In my opinion the best name for a band is one that can be easily branded and recognized. Given that we have a unique sound we needed a unique name and one that reinforces name recognition.

And so the mystery is ended. Perhaps in spoiling the suspense we have created in you a curiosity to look into ancient history. Or perhaps not!

Disclaimer: All of this is not to say that anyone in SUHGARIM believes in anything whether it be an ancient or modern god. Not to say we don't believe in something either, individually that is. It's just to say that Dave finds these things interesting and thought it a good place to get a name. Of course in the words of Skeleto, "I only believe in Science".