Released October 6, 2009 Length 44:26 Feel the Steel(2009) Balls Out(2011) Release date 6 October 2009 | Recorded 2008–2009 Producer Jay Ruston | |
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Label Universal Republic Records Similar Steel Panther albums, Heavy metal albums | ||
Steel panther turn out the lights
Feel the Steel is the second overall, and first major-label debut studio album by American heavy metal band Steel Panther. It was released on October 6, 2009 on Universal Records. The tracks "Fat Girl", "Stripper Girl" and "Hell's On Fire" are re-recordings from the 2003 debut album Hole Patrol while "Death to All But Metal" is a re-recording from their 2004 contribution to the Metal Sludge compilation Hey That's What I Call Sludge! Vol. 1. Unlike the debut album and their Metal Sludge compilation tracks, Feel the Steel is composed entirely of songs, lacking any spoken word comedy skits present on earlier releases. The video for "Death to All But Metal" features comedian Sarah Silverman. The album debuted on #123 and peaked at #98 on the Billboard 200 chart and peaked at #1 on the Billboard Top Comedy Albums chart.
Contents
- Steel panther turn out the lights
- Steel panther death to all but metal
- Reception
- Track listing
- Personnel
- Additional musicians
- Songs
- References
The album was released June 8, 2009 in the UK, October 6 in North America and December 11 in Australia.
Steel panther death to all but metal
Reception
Initial critical response to Feel the Steel was mixed. According to Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received a score of 57, based on four reviews. Negative reviews found the album unfunny by taking the jokes too far. Jason Lymangrover of Allmusic wrote that "Steel Panther's ability to create songs that sound like they came from 1987 is commendable. That's about as close to clever as it gets, though. As David St. Hubbins said, "It's such a fine line between stupid and clever," and Saenz's locker-room humor wears thin quickly." Sophie Bruce of the BBC stated "Quite simply, Feel the Steel is an utter feelgood masterpiece." The Independent wrote that "it's essentially Spinal Tap/Bad News brought forward five years to the coked-up cock-rock era, complete with titles such as "Eatin' Ain't Cheatin'" and dangerous levels of dumb-ass homophobia, sexism, racism and sizeism. The songs are at times terrifyingly authentic. Is it new? Don't be stupid. Is it funny? Hell yeah." NME placed the 2009 video for "Fat Girl", from this album, at number 41 on its list of the "50 worst music videos ever".
Track listing
All tracks written by Steel Panther, except "Girl from Oklahoma" co-written with Dean Cameron.
Personnel
Additional musicians
Songs
1Death to All But Metal - Radio Edit [Explicit]2:30
2Asian Hooker4:02
3Community Property [Explicit]3:39