Steel Panther
All You Can Eat
Open E Records
01 April 2014

by Tomas Doyle

The first thing to remember when reviewing a Steel Panther album is that, really, Steel Panther aren’t a band. Def Leppard are the band, Bon Jovi are the band, Van Halen are the band, Mötley Crüe are the band – Steel Panther are a parasitic sideshow on the hulking belly of stadium rock. A satire, a send up, a comedy façade performed by four apparently libidinous geriatrics in wigs and based on all of cock rocks most ludicrous traits. So the real question when reviewing the new Steel Panther record is this: Is their shtick still funny after three (THREE!) albums?

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Lock up your wives, daughters, girlfriends, sisters, grandmothers, and anyone else with an XX chromosome at Download Festival 2012 – Steel Panther are back, and this time they’re on the Main Stage. They also stopped by backstage to give Raz some emergency sex education – check out our video interview to see what we mean…

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It’s Halloween and the new Steel Panther album, Balls Out is in shops today so we phoned Los Angeles and asked for vocalist, Michael Starr. Obviously we just discussed the things girls look good dressed up as on Halloween…

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The rise of Steel Panther in the UK has been nothing short of meteoric. This time last year, only a handful of people this side of the Atlantic had any idea who they were – now they’re playing to literally thousands of people on what is their second tour of the UK in less than a year.

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After the hilarious Steel Panda debacle @ Download Festival 2009, many, many of us have felt the steel. The joke hasn’t worn off but that’s because Steel Panther aren’t a joke. Or are they? Or was it never funny to talk about shagging your mum? Cue: “My mum’s dead,” etc.

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At Download Festival 2009, those hard-drinkin’, powder-snortin’, (literal) mother-fuckers in Steel Panther called us “ruthless, cold-blooded and fucked up“. We’re not sure if that means we’re doing something right, or perhaps very, very wrong. In any case, we clearly left our mark, as they’ve sent us an exclusive behind-the-scenes peek at the rest of their first ever trip to the UK. [Read more →]