ANTI REVIEW: STEEL PANTHER

If you’ve not seen this band gyrating about in glorified spandex then your eyes have been saved from instigating a flabbergasting vomit reflex. While Steel Panther is a meant to chuckle listeners with its parody on glam heavy metal rock band, in the lyrics “You have my heart, but my c**k is community property”, I laughed more at its pathetic attempt to actually be a success in such a bastardised form of comedy. While it is an infuriatingly catchy tune, (ugh, even SS’s Assistant Ed. was chirping along to it!), I am a little confused to see if they really take themselves seriously as band or a comedic act, when there’s the likes of Flight of The Conchords who transform Steel Panther into a primeval slapstick act. Surely music goers today have had their comical thrill with legends Spinal Tap, but apparently Island Records want to get on the bandwagon after the fictional band played shows this summer.

So birthed like a potty-mouthed, ballad-screeching clone, Steel Panther (said with a whisky infused voice and dripping incestuous sexual vigor) release their upcoming single ‘Community Property’ in Cleanest, Clean, and Filthiest versions, with an actual “boiiiinggg” reminiscent of Pat Sharp’s Funhouse, all to hide those naughty words. Warned by their PR to “lock up your Mums, sisters and daughters!” I instead deliver orders to have the relentless disappointing parody sealed in a padded cell away from harming the pure comical memories of Spinal Tap and for the sake of humanity! Ok, maybe that’s a little dramatic, so judge for yourselves with a face-off with Spinal Tap versus Steel Panther…and watch with caution, don’t be lured by their naked flesh!