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Steel Panther - Feel The Steel [Album]
Let this review start with a warning: If you expect a serious review about how Steel Panther are going to change the face of music as we know it you are thinking a much higher expectation for a band (so listen to Fleet Foxes or something!).
‘Feel The Steel’ takes us back to a time where sex, drugs and pure balls to the wall metal of the eighties reigned supreme with bands such as Motley Crue and WASP created insanity with their establishment baiting lyrics and to use a cliché cranks it up to 11!
Steel Panther have gained notoriety in LA for their residency at the Key Club which has featured on stage Pink, Corey Taylor, Kelly Clarkson and members of Ratt to name a few singing covers of 80’s ‘hair metal’ classics giving them a more wider audience.
The album is purely a comedy one in the veins of Spinal Tap with songs such as ‘Community Property’ starting off as a typical ballad in the style of 18 to Life by Skid Row then talking about hookers and how the frontman Michael Starr considers a part of his body as the equivalent to a listed building! (so to speak)
Musically it’s what to be expected from a pastiche of 80’s metal with solos, high vocals that sound like the spandex is a little bit TOO tight on Starr and will get fans of that era remembering the good old days.
Overall the album is one for people that actually want a laugh and are willing to take life a little less seriously for a while, the main question of course is after this album can they carry on the joke without wearing too thin? We’ll see how their UK shows during mid-June go down first.
Comment Posted on: June 4, 2009, 09:23 AM
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