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”, might be seen under.
Says STEEL PANTHER: “You did not assume we had been completed celebrating, did you?! Be 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 USA 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 makes a speciality of 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 Trade (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 had 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 rejoice 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 latest 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 a fantastic query, man. And I can reply it in a brief model or a protracted model. And I am gonna do the medium model as a result of it is necessary to start out from the start. So after we first began out, grunge had simply taken over heavy steel. And when you had been in a heavy steel band, folks began making enjoyable of you — type of like when you had been in NICKELBACK. And it was that factor occurring. However we had been, like, ‘You recognize what? We like NICKELBACK‘ or we had been, like, ‘We love heavy steel.’ We did not reduce our hair. We saved taking part in, and we saved taking part in heavy steel and other people made enjoyable of us, and we had 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 had been simply having enjoyable in any case, so we simply introduced it on stage and we began making enjoyable of ourselves. And folks began making enjoyable of the truth that we had been making enjoyable of ourselves after which we might begin simply mentioning 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 concentrate on a lady dancing on a Jaguar? And also you’re, like, ‘Wait, what? Why is he on the hood of the automotive 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 type of humorous, and we simply saved doing it. And truly, folks would say to us, ‘Shut up and play some music. Stop speaking.’ I feel the longest time we had in between a track was 25 minutes. And the one cause I do know that’s ‘trigger our drummer occasions all the things. 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 type of developed it through the years. After which folks began calling us a comedy present. And we had been, like, ‘Actually? Comedy? We’re not comedians. Actually?’ After which as soon as it acquired larger and we began taking part in actually large reveals and we realized that quite a lot of the short stuff that we had been doing labored in a small venue, we could not try this anymore. We needed to sluggish it down and actually simply type of make all the things slightly bit larger. And it was totally different, so that you needed to actually type of plan out an overview of what you are gonna do after which you possibly can type 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.”