Sabasister -- My girlfriend is PIZZA OF DEATH

Wikimedia Commons via Ed Bierman

I do love my mackerel, which is known in Japanese as saba（鯖）. It could be shime saba（しめ鯖） sushi which has been made here at home and at the many kaiten sushi places I've frequented in Japan. I also enjoyed it frying it up in a pan and having it with hot rice. 

So, imagine to my surprise that there is a Japanese band known as Sabasister（サバシスター）that has been around since 2022. Consisting of vocalist Nachi（なち）, drummer Gouke（ごうけ）, and guitarist Ruminasu（るみなす）, they specialize in pop, pop-punk and rock. Up to this point, I've only come across their third single from April 2025, "My girlfriend is PIZZA OF DEATH", and thus far, I've only seen videos of the song being just a little over a minute in length so I'm not sure whether there is a fuller version or it is only meant to be a mini-tune. The ladies really played up the punk in the pop-punk in the video above and there's something about the song that reminds me of the band Go-Bangs.

A couple of months ago, a variant on the song was released which basically retains the hard rock but also includes some ska. Now as for the title, which might read like something on a typical Japlish T-shirt sold in Asakusa, PIZZA OF DEATH is actually the name of the band's label, PIZZA OF DEATH RECORDS, which handles a lot of indies acts.