{"id":24070,"date":"2022-11-02T05:30:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T09:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=24070"},"modified":"2022-10-19T11:32:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T15:32:22","slug":"mac-sabbath-you-deserve-a-mac-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/02\/mac-sabbath-you-deserve-a-mac-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac Sabbath: You Deserve a Mac Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

The music of prime-era Black Sabbath has served as inspiration for countless bands, applying the drop-tuned, doom-laden style of the Birmingham, England, foursome to their own creative ends. But perhaps the most unusual band to follow in Black Sabbath\u2019s wake is Los Angeles quartet Mac Sabbath.<\/p>\n

The group\u2019s sound will be familiar to many listeners: The melodies closely follow the music of Sabbath\u2019s 1970s albums. And the group members will be eerily recognizable as well, but perhaps not in the way one might expect. Lead singer Ronald Osbourne<\/strong> is covered in clown makeup with a shaggy red wig and dressed in a baggy red, white and yellow suit.<\/p>\n

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The rest of the band looks suspiciously like fast-food mascots gone wrong as well: guitarist Slayer MacCheeze<\/strong> sports a giant head that looks like a mass-produced cheeseburger (with horns borrowed from Spinal Tap\u2019s stage setup). Drummer Catburglar<\/strong> is a cartoonish cross between Kiss drummer Peter Criss<\/strong> and a masked thief. Bassist Grimalice\u00a0<\/strong>\u2026 well, you get the idea.<\/p>\n

The band doesn\u2019t grant interviews, and band manager Mike Odd<\/strong> explains why, using a not-so-subtle Black Sabbath reference: \u201cRonald is \u2026\u00a0paranoid<\/em>,\u201d he says. Instead, he speaks on the group\u2019s behalf and recalls how he first got involved with the freaky foursome.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got this call, and the guy says, \u2018You\u2019ve got to come down to this burger franchise in Chatsworth, Calif.; it\u2019s going to change your life.\u2019 Odd\u2019s reply:\u00a0\u201cYeah, I\u2019ll bite.\u201d<\/p>\n

There he encountered a costumed quartet playing Black Sabbath tunes, but their lyrics sought to launch a \u201cdinner rock revolution,\u201d extolling the evils of fast food, processed ingredients, multinational corporations, genetically modified organisms and the like. Odd was immediately won over and began booking the group at venues in Southern California.<\/p>\n

Inevitably \u2014 even in a cultural landscape overrun with high-concept ideas \u2014 Mac Sabbath got noticed. \u201cI put a thing on YouTube, and it instantly went crazy,\u201d Odd recalls. With a mischievous smile, he notes that \u201cFox News was the first major outlet that picked up Mac Sabbath; they said all these awful things about them!\u201d<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t hurt, either, when Black Sabbath\u2019s official social media posted a link to the video. In short order, Mac Sabbath was invited to perform in England at the 2015 Download Festival, sharing a bill with Kiss, M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce and Slipknot. They even played a private party given in honor of Ozzy Osbourne<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Yet, Mac Sabbath simply cannot operate according to traditional rules of rock \u2018n\u2019 roll. Ronald\u2019s paranoia seeps through in his between-song banter, as he rants about other bands he imagines are stealing his ideas. Odd ticks off a list: \u201cCinnabon Jovi, Weezer Schnitzel, Burger King Diamond, KFC\/DC \u2026 even Van HaLensCrafters. And they\u2019re not even food! How dare they!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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