Steel Panther - All You Can Eat (2014)

Genre - Hard Rock / Glam / Sleaze / Heavy Metal / Spoof

Label - Open E Music

Track listing:

01 -  Pussywhipped

02 -  Party Like Tomorrow Is The End Of The World

03 -  Gloryhole

04 -  Bukkake Tears

05 -  Gangbang At The Old Folks Home

06 -  Ten Strikes You’re Out

07 -  The Burden Of Being Wonderful

08 -  F@cking My Heart In The Ass

09 -  BVS

10 -  You're Beautiful When You Don't Talk

11 -  If I Was The King

12 -  She's On The Rag

Okay, so I know that this album has been out a little while now, but finally I get around to posting a review of it!

What can I say about All You Can Eat? Like every other Steel Panther album, it’s sex, metal.. more sex and more metal. Their parodic, sexual and comedic content only just gets more explicit, funnier and heavier on "All You Can Eat".

You have two ways with Steel Panther, nothing in between: you like it or hate it. I mean, just take a look at the song titles... it's a joke after joke.

But there's something that, apart if lyrics result too much irritating for you, makes this band great; their musicality, musicianship and production. "All You Can Eat", as very very few acts in last 25 years, captures the first class, glossy, bombastic shiny sound from the hair metal glory days.

This CD sounds immense, like any major label '87 - '91 release handled by Beau Hill, Peter Collins, Bruce Fairbairn or even Robert John "Mutt" Lange behind the production desk.

You know how every "All You Can Eat" song is gonna go down as far as lyrics go, with Michael Starr singing about 'blowing his load' at the "Gloryhole" in France or how he caught "B.V.S.". Nonetheless, he still carries a great vocal range and does it as good as a young, sober Vince Neil. 

Guitarist and controller of the eargasms, Satchel, still rolls with a great array of solos and very '80s anthemic riffs that make the icon of Steel Panther expand. Lexxi’s bass work is still as impressive as it always has been, despite the fact he spends more time looking at his hair in the mirror than actually playing bass. And Mr. Stix Zadinia’s drumming gives off that strong Eighties beat you’d hear from Ratt’s ‘Round and Round’ to name one, and always has outdone himself one album after the next.

So, put your prejudices aside and enjoy these anthemic American Hard Rock songs. Musically, all tracks in "All You Can Eat" are catchy and kickin' hymns.

Steel Panther's comedy has been approved by the likes of Steven Tyler of Aerosmith or Paul Stanley of Kiss to name a couple, so join the circus and enjoy the music. It's terrific.

A cult to the legendary LA scene, Steel Panther are the rebirth of '80s hair metal and the ones responsible for global orgasms, putting quite clear throughout "All You Can Eat" that they’re at the top of their game now.

Truth be told, the only people who won't dig this well written, composed and produced Sunset Strip quartet's 3rd album are those without sense of humour, women on their rags and possibly your grandparents. 

Steel Panther ROCKS.

Rating 8/10

Steel Panther are:

Michael Starr (Ralph Saenz) – lead vocals, acoustic guitar

Satchel (Russ Parrish) – lead guitar, backing vocals

Lexxi Foxx (Travis Haley) – bass, backing vocals

Stix Zadinia (Darren Leader) – drums, percussion, keyboards, backing vocals