California metallic 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”, may be seen beneath.
Says STEEL PANTHER: “You did not suppose we had been executed 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 unique 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 america and the second leg heads to Europe subsequent summer season. 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 number of. The European headline leg kicks off on June 18 in Dublin, Eire earlier than concluding three weeks in a while July 6 in Geiselwind, Germany.
Fashioned in 2000, STEEL PANTHER focuses on imitating and exaggerating the much less flattering elements of Eighties hair metallic, 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 identify from METAL SKOOL to its present moniker and shifted the main target of its act from ’80s metallic 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 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 have a good time 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 way of December 13, 2024 the place it wrapped up in Orlando, Florida.
In a current interview with Movie star 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 necessary to start out from the start. So once we first began out, grunge had simply taken over heavy metallic. And if you happen to had been in a heavy metallic band, folks began making enjoyable of you — form of like if you happen to had been in NICKELBACK. And it was that factor occurring. However we had been, like, ‘ what? We like NICKELBACK‘ or we had been, like, ‘We love heavy metallic.’ We did not minimize our hair. We saved taking part in, and we saved taking part in heavy metallic and other people made enjoyable of us, and we had been simply, like, ‘Hey, we’re gonna deliver heavy metallic again.’ And actually, on the core of it, all 4 of us, at the moment, all had been simply having enjoyable anyhow, 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’d 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 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 metallic.’ And it simply grew to become form of humorous, and we simply saved doing it. And really, folks would say to us, ‘Shut up and play some music. Stop speaking.’ I believe the longest time we had in between a music was 25 minutes. And the one motive I do know that’s ‘trigger our drummer instances every little thing. So he makes certain that we begin on time and we finish on time and we’re on time. So, yeah, that is the report 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 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 huge exhibits and we realized that a number of the short stuff that we had been doing labored in a small venue, we could not try this anymore. We needed to gradual it down and actually simply form of make every little thing a bit bit larger. And it was totally different, so that you needed to actually form of plan out an overview of what you are gonna do after which you’ll be able to 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 metallic cowl band that makes enjoyable of the bands we love.’ We by no means thought it might be that.”
