California steel maestros STEEL PANTHER have shared the primary episode of a retrospective on their debut album, “Really feel The Metal”. The seven-minute video, dubbed “From Cowl Band To Writing Originals”, could be seen beneath.
Says STEEL PANTHER: “You did not assume we have been carried out celebrating, did you?! Be a part of us as we have a look again on the album critics hailed as ‘An train in taking a joke too far!’ Let’s take a deep dive on all issues ‘Really feel The Metal’! On this episode, Michael, Satchel and Stix replicate on making the transition from cowl band to writing authentic music.”
STEEL PANTHER will embark on two extra legs of their “Really feel The Metal Fifteenth Anniversary Tour” in 2025. The primary leg is scheduled for March all through the US and the second leg heads to Europe subsequent summer time. The U.S. leg of the tour kicks off on March 5 in Lincoln, Nebraska and wraps up on March 28 in Dubuque, Iowa. The tour will make stops in Boise, Idaho; San Francisco, California; Tempe, Arizona and Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, to call a couple of. The European headline leg kicks off on June 18 in Dublin, Eire earlier than concluding three weeks afterward July 6 in Geiselwind, Germany.
Fashioned in 2000, STEEL PANTHER focuses on imitating and exaggerating the much less flattering elements of Eighties hair steel, with unrepentantly crude, non-PC sexual content material as a favourite lyrical theme.
The group’s music has been described as “VAN HALEN meets MÖTLEY CRÜE meets RATT meets ‘Wayne’s World’, full with operatic shrieks, misogyny, shredding guitar solos and libidinal overdrive.”
Sixteen years in the past, STEEL PANTHER modified its title from METAL SKOOL to its present moniker and shifted the main target of its act from ’80s steel covers to originals.
STEEL PANTHER‘s sixth studio album, “On The Prowl”, was launched in February 2023.
In September 2022, STEEL PANTHER introduced the addition of Spyder because the band’s new bassist.
In October, “Really feel The Metal” was licensed gold by the British Phonographic Business (BPI) for gross sales in extra of 100,000 copies in the UK.
“Really feel The Metal – Fifteenth Anniversary Version” was launched worldwide on November 15, 2024. The Fifteenth-anniversary version options two tracks that have been solely launched on the unique Japanese import: “You Do not Make Me Really feel Dumb” and “I Need Your Tits”. The album was produced by Jay Ruston (ANTHRAX, COREY TAYLOR).
To have fun the Fifteenth anniversary of the album, STEEL PANTHER launched into the primary leg of the “Really feel The Metal Fifteenth Anniversary Tour”. The trek kicked off in Huntington, New York on November 20, 2024 and ran by means of December 13, 2024 the place it wrapped up in Orlando, Florida.
In a current interview with Superstar Jobber Podcast With Jeff Zito, STEEL PANTHER vocalist Michael Starr was requested when he and his bandmates got here up with the concept of a enjoyable, satirical rock group. He responded: “That is an ideal query, man. And I can reply it in a brief model or an extended model. And I am gonna do the medium model as a result of it is vital to begin from the start. So after we first began out, grunge had simply taken over heavy steel. And if you happen to have been in a heavy steel band, individuals began making enjoyable of you — form of like if you happen to have been in NICKELBACK. And it was that factor occurring. However we have been, like, ‘You understand what? We like NICKELBACK‘ or we have been, like, ‘We love heavy steel.’ We did not lower our hair. We stored enjoying, and we stored enjoying heavy steel and other people made enjoyable of us, and we have been simply, like, ‘Hey, we’re gonna convey heavy steel again.’ And actually, on the core of it, all 4 of us, at the moment, all have been simply having enjoyable anyhow, so we simply introduced it on stage and we began making enjoyable of ourselves. And other people began making enjoyable of the truth that we have been making enjoyable of ourselves after which we might begin simply declaring all of the absurdity and excessiveness of the ’80s, that was humorous about it, and simply began speaking about it, ‘trigger it was humorous. I imply, you consider a woman dancing on a Jaguar? And also you’re, like, ‘Wait, what? Why is he on the hood of the automobile dancing? That is so bizarre.’ It is humorous as hell, however on the time it was, like, ‘That is so steel.’ And it simply turned form of humorous, and we simply stored doing it. And truly, individuals would say to us, ‘Shut up and play some music. Give up speaking.’ I believe the longest time we had in between a music was 25 minutes. And the one purpose I do know that’s ‘trigger our drummer instances all the pieces. So he makes certain that we begin on time and we finish on time and we’re on time. So, yeah, that is the file we held. And on the core, we prefer to have enjoyable, we prefer to crack jokes, and we just about do the identical stuff backstage. After which we simply form of developed it over time. After which individuals began calling us a comedy present. And we have been, like, ‘Actually? Comedy? We’re not comedians. Actually?’ After which as soon as it acquired greater and we began enjoying actually large reveals and we realized that quite a lot of the short stuff that we have been doing labored in a small venue, we could not try this anymore. We needed to sluggish it down and actually simply form of make all the pieces somewhat bit greater. And it was completely different, so that you needed to actually form of plan out an overview of what you are gonna do after which you possibly can form of use improv in between all that. In order that’s the way it developed into it. We did not actually sit down and go, ‘Hey, let’s be a heavy steel cowl band that makes enjoyable of the bands we love.’ We by no means thought it might be that.”
