Massacration
Massacration is a fictional American heavy metal band created by Brazilian humorists and musicians Bruno Sutter (as vocalist Detonator), Fausto Fanti (as lead guitarist Blondie Hammett) and Marco Antônio Alves (as bassist Metal Avenger), and actors Adriano Silva (as rhythm guitarist Headmaster) and Felipe Torres (as drummer Jimmy the Hammer), all of them part of the comedy troupe Hermes & Renato. Heavily influenced by the similar semi-fictional metal act Spinal Tap and self-styled as "a banda da galera" (roughly translated into English as "the people's/crowd's band"), Massacration is a light-hearted parody of heavy metal subculture and "metalhead/headbanger" stereotypes, lampooning the music and aesthetics of such famous metal bands as Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Manowar, Sepultura, Angra, among others. The band's music features humorous lyrics written in a combination of intentionally broken English and Portuguese, sung in an exaggerated falsetto by Sutter.
Following Fanti's suicide in 2014 and a hiatus that lasted four years, the band eventually announced its comeback in 2016 with some lineup changes: Alves, formerly the bassist, took over the role of lead guitarist, and Fanti's brother, Franco, joined the group as the fictional bass player "Red Head Hammett".
Although Silva, Franco and Torres are credited as rhythm guitarist, bassist and drummer respectively and appear in the group's promotional materials, they are not musicians. For Silva, the rhythm guitar parts were initially handled by Fausto Fanti himself through overdubs, and later by Marco Antônio Alves; for Franco, the bass by session musician Marco Klein (under the moniker "El Muro"); and for Torres, the drums have been recorded by three session musicians: Fernando Lima (under the moniker "Straupelator"), Igor Cavalera (under the moniker "El Covero"), and Ricardo Confessori (under the moniker "El Perro Loco").
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