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Mac Sabbath is an American parody heavy metal tribute band formed in Los Angeles, California in 2014. The self-appointed founders of "Drive Thru Metal", the band is primarily a parody of English heavy metal group Black Sabbath, utilizing lyricism and imagery centered on fast food. ==Overview== Musically, Mac Sabbath performs faithful covers of Black Sabbath's songs with only the lyrics humorously re-written and re-arranged. For example, the band's repertoire includes such parodies as "Pair-a-Buns" ("Paranoid"), "Frying Pan" ("Iron Man"), "Sweet Beef" ("Sweet Leaf"), "Never Say Diet" ("Never Say Die") and "Zipping Up the Uniform" ("Symptom of the Universe"). Although all of the band's lyrics focus on the umbrella topic of fast food, Mac Sabbath takes a decidedly satirical and condemnatory perspective on the corporate food industry, addressing areas such as fast food's negative health effects and lack of nutritional value as well as genetically modified food, consumerism and low wage McJobs. Mac Sabbath is visually inspired by characters from McDonaldland, the fantasy world which fast food restaurant McDonald's uses in its marketing campaigns geared towards children. Performing in elaborate costuming, the band's line-up consists of vocalist Ronald Osbourne, guitarist Slayer MacCheeze, bassist Grimalice and drummer the Catburglar, alternately known as "Peter Criss Cut Fries". Mac Sabbath's concerts are described as a "multi-media show with video, theatrics, audience participation and sing alongs", featuring an array of food-related props which tie into their overall theme. The ''Village Voice'', describing the "surreal and chaotic" nature of their shows, wrote of "red-eyed, demonic-looking clown statues, inflatable cheeseburgers, and oversized prop ketchup and mustard bottles", noting "The blazing primary colors and infernal special effects make the whole thing feel like Hieronymus Boschs ''My Little Pony''". ;Mythology All of the members of Mac Sabbath attempt to maintain total anonymity behind their characters, refusing to grant interviews. Instead, the band speaks only through their manager Mike Odd, lead singer of the Los Angeles hard rock band Rosemary's Billygoat, who handles all interviews and continually asserts outlandish claims about Mac Sabbath's origins. According to Odd, in late 2013 he received an anonymous phone call to meet someone at a fast food restaurant in the San Fernando Valley which turned out to be Mac Sabbath singer Ronald Osbourne, dressed fully in costume and acting fully in character (of which Odd claims to have never seen otherwise), who proceeded to goad Odd into managing Mac Sabbath based on his reputation with Rosemary's Billygoat. Odd was then invited to a Mac Sabbath show - who at that time were only performing secret shows in restaurant basements - and decided to start working with the band. Odd claims that Osbourne claims he comes from an enchanted forest in the 1970s "where hamburgers grow on trees" and traveled through the time-space continuum to warn the general public about "government control in food". "It's a very Orwellian philosophy that he seems to have", Odd spoke of Osbourne's ideology, "like ''1984'' came and went, Monsanto took control and filled us all with GMOs and everything".〔 Odd asserts this version of the band's origins as truth in all interviews. The ''Village Voice'' remarked that "listening to Odd talk, it's hard to tell where reality ends and fabrication begins", while the ''The Source Weekly'' wrote "Odd speaks of his interactions with the eccentric Osbourne with such conviction that () begin to accept whatever he says - no matter how outlandish it sounds...part of me wants to believe every word of the intriguing mythology the band has built for themselves".〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mac Sabbath」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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