Ars Gratia Artis

Amo, Amas, Amat... Takes me back. Jumpers for goalposts. Floral gums. Latin lessons at Keswick School - Assurgit Skidda stabilis, mons nunquam non mutabilis... In honour of the Roman tongue, here's a list of bands named entirely in Latin.

• Arcanae Legioniis - Italian Black Metal band.
• Augustana
  
• Carpe Diem - several bands called this.
  
• De Profundis - Hungarian Melodic Black Metal band.
• Deus Ex Machina, an Italian prog rock outfit. Who can forget their album "Non est ars quae ad effectum casus venit"? Wise words.
  
• Focus
  
• In Extremis - the "all-out rock band", not to be confused with...
  
• In Extremo - the German Folk Metal band
  
• Ipso Facto
  
• Mea Culpa. All that leaping into the drum kit's gonna hurt.
  
• Procol Harum. Attempted a Latin name, but got it wrong. Disqualified.
  
• Saliva - it's Latin for saliva
  
• Status Quo
  
• Tyrannosaurus Rex - which means "King of the Tyrant Lizards", also a good name for a band