'It seemed pretty harmless- but we were 15.' You can find the interview with Brandon and Mike's explanation here-> :) Mike remembers that it meant 'A spirit that seduces women while they were sleeping'. Mike Einziger, the lead guitarist, was looking through a thesaurus and found the word Incubus and they went with it. Krista Fulmer from Cincinnati, OhThe band chose the name Incubus because they had to think of a name on the fly before performing at a friends party.like, i thought the word, broken apart, also referred to the incubation or fruitation of something like the fruition of a really good band (Incubus) and their ideas of the themselves and the world happening around them. Janus from San Antonio, TxHuh.i thought Incubus' name was one of the many profundities that represents the band.INCUS + CUBENSIS = INCUBUS, i always thought that they were eating shrooms while making music. Jet from Cagayan De Oro, Philippineswell i thought the band was named after the part of the ear INCUS which symbolizes sound and music, or their first studio album fungus amongus which shrooms scientific name is psilocybe cubensis.Mike from California'Incubo' means 'nightmare' in Italian.

Incubus band members.