'All You Can Eat' Album Art Revealed

You can pre-order Steel Panther's new album, All You Can Eat starting today. But first, let's discuss this album art. This is perhaps the best album cover I've seen in five years. Agree? Special note to Bob: I'm sorry this post leaves you out in the cold. I try to always include at least a video for you. You'll just have to trust me that the humor of Steel Panther carries to their album art as well as their music.

Comments

[Snoot]

Great cover, great band. I'm pre-ordering this for sure.

[Metalboy!]

Gotta hand it to these guys, despite their boring set and hackneyed LCD lyrics, this album cover is completely KILLARIOUS! Maybe this time they smartened up the lyrics a little.

This has the look of a Rock & Roll Masterpiece and I am rooting for it to be so. Can't wait to hear it!

[Ace Steele]

Good for them. They've been the last "solid draw" L.A. has had.

[Brian L]

Not too sure I dig it. At first glance funny, but it's kinda offensive.

[Rita]

Yes. To parody the Last Supper takes a lot of guts. Not sure what to make of it but overall, these guys get huge points for making me laugh so much.

[Lucas Serpa]

I really liked this cover! Probably this one can take them to another level!

[Bob]

It's all good Allyson. Definitely looking forward to this one.

[GNR]

Offensive ? to who ? Leonardo da Vinci ?

Please do not even remotely say "Christians" in general would be offended

[Kenny Ozz]

The song title "You’re Beautiful When You Don’t Talk" is perhaps the greatest thing ever.

[Mike]

GNR-I'm a christian, and I'm not even close to being offended.

[Dj]

The track titles are pretty cool. I love these guys, freaking hilarious.

[Metalboy!]

It's called comedy, folks. Puritanical judgement, particularly from the Christian Right, holds our country back.

Too be honest, I was gettin' ready to blow these guys off until I saw the cover. If they can demonstrate the irony of their song titles in the lyrics, they just might get to the next level a la The Darkness the first time around.

No question, the music and the playing will be incredible. It's all about the words here -- this after I just got done expounding on puritanicality, hahaha!!!

ADDENDUM: Kenny O, okay ya got my hopes up but it looks like it's still the same ol' same ol'. But you still might be right about "Your Beautiful When You Don't Talk". That could be the satellite radio gateway they need. The album's up on iTunes for Pre-Order and the song titles are, well, the usual kind of thing they're known for. I get the shtick is meant to be offensive. The album cover is hilariously so. Still, i'm willing to hold out until I hear the whole album. If they take the songwriting to another level, regardless of the song titles. I'm all ears.

p.s. Love the fact that the release date is April 1st.

[Carolyne]

Great cover! Rock and roll has always had a sense of humour (yes, I am Canadian). Think about Van Halen's Ice Cream Man, G n' R's Used to Love Her or Motley Crue's Don't Go Away Mad, great songs and funny too. Steel Panther sounds good and they're comical. They are talented musicians and great entertainers. I can't wait to hear this album.

[Bob]

Carolyne, before Van Halen got hold of Ice Cream man, it was originally recorded by John Brim for the Chess label.

[Metalboy!]

Cool info, Bob. And once Van Halen got a hold of it, we know what they did with it. Kicked A*s!!!

[Bob]

Indeed Mr. Metalboy! sir -- VH did a killer job with Ice Cream Man. Actually, my favorite version by VH is an early rehearsal that can be found on the Demo Daze bootleg. You can hear bottles clinking and the guys just having a ball while they were kicking an old blues number into overdrive...Great stuff!

[Him]

For some reason, their live shows are the sell for me. The albums lack the interaction that their brand of schtick needs to make it work. But I think that is the point: the albums draw in newbies, which then draw them to shows where metal fans of a certain sort--I get that they are an acquired taste--are already going to be.

If you like the albums, fine. I do, too, just in limited doses. But the shows are where the fun happens.

You can't deny that they have talent, that they know exactly how to mimic and mock the music we love, and that they can get fans to do some odd stuff in concert.

The cover? Just another in a long line of provocative poses meant to kink PMRC-like hoses. The chances for an irony overdose are high. So, too, quite a few people at their shows.

I hope they continue to do well. Humor is good for the soul.

[Metalboy!]

Well said, HIM. "Limited doses" indeed.

Bob, I got that "Double Daze" CD!

[Metalboy!]

I really didn't find the show THAT amusing. In fact, I found it QUITE boring, actually.

However, they do have their moments, though they are becoming more and more fewer and far between.

[Him]

I suppose it depends on the crowd really.

As the free pre-show for Aftershock this year (and they were also a day one opening act), they managed to get a lot of audience interaction. I think that lends itself to them going off script a bit more.

In fact, the differences between the pre-show and opening act schtick were informative. But it is an act either way . . . and a lot of bands would die to be in their position.