STEEL PANTHER frontman Michael Starr is featured in a new interview with Bill Bodkin at Pop-Break.com. An excerpt is available below:

Q: How do you think (new album) Balls Out differs from your last record Feel The Steel?

MS: "Well, some people say it’s more mature of a record, and I would think it’s more of an immature record. It’s not like we’re breaking any new ground with our lyrical content, but I think the band still stands strong and we’re singing about shit people have a hard time talking about. Some guys are afraid to ask their chick to let them fuck them in the ass. “Critter” is a perfect instructional song on how to do that, and I don’t think we had anything like that on Feel The Steel. So in that respect, it’s different. But here’s the key difference between Feel The Steel and Balls Out: Feel The Steel features songs we wrote over a 10-year period. Balls Out, we wrote over a year period, but it was also inspired by actually putting Feel The Steel out and going out and tour. So I think that is evident in music. So it’s not more mature, we’re just a little more worldly now."

PB: I swear when I heard 'Critter', I thought I was going to crash my car, it was so funny. I literally swerved off the road at one point listening to it.

MS: "Thanks, dude! Some people come to us and say, ‘Are you ever going to do a serious record?’ Why would Steel Panther do a serious record? That’s like saying is Van Halen going to play fucking jazz? Fuck!"

Go to this location for the complete interview.

Balls Out (issued October 31st in The UK and November 1st in North America) debuted at #1 on Billboard's Comedy chart and at #40 on Billboard's Top 200 with 12,000 copies sold in The US in the first week of release.

To read BraveWords.com scribe Aaron Small's review of Balls Out, click here.

As previously reported, members of THE IRON MAIDENS, the world’s only female tribute to the legendary band IRON MAIDEN, recently performed an impromptu set with Sreel Panther at The Ovation Showroom (Green Valley Ranch) in Las Vegas, NV. Check out footage of vocalist Kirsten Rosenberg (aka Bruce Chickinson) and guitarists Courtney Cox (aka Adriana Smith) and Nita Strauss (aka Mega Murray) laying out 'The Trooper' and 'Hallowed Be Thy Name' during Steel Panther's show below: