| 100% | MOTORHEAD | 9 | "Ace of Spades" band with a "metal umlaut" over an O in its name |
| 75% | BLUEOYSTERCULT | 14 | "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" band with a "metal umlaut" over an O in its name: 3 wds. |
| 63% | SPINALTAP | 9 | "Stonehenge" pseudo-band with a "metal umlaut" over an N in its name: 2 wds. |
| 58% | CRUE | 4 | One of two words with an umlaut in a metal band's name |
| 48% | MOBIUSSTRIP | 11 | Band with an umlaut in its name |
| 45% | ACDC | 4 | Band with a slash in its name |
| 45% | ACDC | 4 | Band with a lightning bolt in its name |
| 44% | SILVERADO | 9 | Chevrolet truck with a metal in its name |
| 44% | ACDC | 4 | Rock band with a slash in its name |
| 43% | IMPALA | 6 | Tame ___ (psychedelic rock band with a horned animal in its name) |
| 41% | RHESUS | 6 | Animal that shares its name with a king of Thrace in the "Iliad" |
| 39% | STUSSY | 6 | Fashion house with an umlaut in its name |
| 39% | NATIVEAD | 8 | An "article" with a brand name in lieu of a byline, perhaps |
| 39% | ACDC | 4 | Band with a thunderbolt in its logo |
| 38% | ACDC | 4 | Band with a voltage symbol in its logo |
| 38% | THEWHO | 6 | With Yes and the Band, band in an “SCTV” parody of a classic Abbott and Costello bit |
| 37% | PHISH | 5 | Band with a Ben & Jerry's flavor named for it |
| 37% | ANTHRAX | 7 | Metal band with a killer name? |
| 37% | ACDC | 4 | Rock band with a lightning bolt in its logo |
| 37% | NSYNC | 5 | '90s-'00s band with a star in its logo |
| 37% | REM | 3 | Band that took its name from a stage of sleep Michael Stipe found in the dictionary |
| 36% | PANICATTHEDISCO | 15 | Emo pop band with an exclamation point in its name |
| 36% | NEWSWEEK | 8 | Magazine launch of 1933 with a hyphen in its name |
| 36% | OBOE | 4 | Woodwind instrument with a lot of vowels in its name |
| 36% | ACDC | 4 | Australian rock band with a lightning bolt in its logo |
| 36% | ACDC | 4 | Hard-rock band with a lightning bolt in its logo |
| 36% | ALEXA | 5 | Princess ___, one of the main protagonists in "Barbie & The Diamond Castle" who shares a name with an Amazon smart speaker |
| 36% | BAHAI | 5 | Religion with an apostrophe in its name |
| 36% | ESTEE | 5 | Perfume with an accent in its name |
| 36% | ETRADE | 6 | Brokerage with an asterisk in its name |