Biography
The crossover mock 'n roll meltdown that is PINK STEEL co-mingles gay culture and heavy metal bluster with punch-line songwriting and outlandish performance--giving the audience front row seats to a stadium-style rock show unlike any other.
Their new album, the party-metal opus OUT AT THE DEVIL, is jam-packed with 80s metal thunder and inspired bitchiness.
Released August 25, 2007 (Rob Halford's birthday), OUT AT THE DEVIL reaffirms PINK STEEL's status as the true leaders of Gay Heavy Metal At Its Hardest. OUT AT THE DEVIL was produced by Pete Kohl (Princess Superstar, Double Dong & Wyld Lyxx) and Mastered by Steve Fallone (Scorpions, Rainbow, TV On The Radio).
Hailed by fans as "The Pink and Black Bareback Attack," The ersatz German trio take heavy metal's bluster and spandex, reverse the gender preference, and turn it into standing ovations at theater stages and rock venues alike.
In 1983, Udo Von DuYu met PINK STEEL vocalist Hanson Jobb in a smoky Bremen bathhouse/nightclub, where Udo was recovering after his lover left him for a cantaloupe with a hole cut in it. Hanson, who had just finished "chatting" in the back room with several Nigerian wrestlers, recognized the forlorn Von DuYu from their high school swim team. The rest--as documented in the power ballad "Two Men Enter, One Man Loves"--is Gay Heavy Metal history.
View their latest video, for "Converter," at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9UuaFfHagk
Praise for PINK STEEL:
"Hanson Jobb and Udo Von DuYu are two of the city's funniest fellas devoted to 'fighting with metal and loving with wood.'"
--Daphne Carr, VILLAGE VOICE BEST OF 2003
"Oh, yes."
--BLENDER Magazine
"Outlandish performanance and inspired bitchiness."
--TIME OUT NEW YORK
" The gays from hell."
--NEXT Magazine
"The two have made gay heavy metal history."
--INSTINCT Magazine
"Their hysterical and catchy songs meld Ozzy Ozbourne with Oscar Wilde. "
--HX Magazine
"German accents, feather boas and a lot of bitchy gay banter."
--INSTINCT Magazine
"You guys rage like boners."
--PLAYGIRL Magazine
"The logical next step."
--TIME OUT NEW YORK
"Raucously Sexy."
--Rachel Kramer Bussell, VILLAGE VOICE
Instrumentation
Hanson Jobb: Lead Vocals
Udo Von DuYu: Guitars & Vocals
Helmut Bang: Drums
Klaus Schave: Bass
Discography
OUT AT THE DEVIL (full-length album):
See Audio for MP3 samples.
RADIO:
KRFC-FM 88.9
East Village Radio
99.3 KCLA-FM
107.7 KYNO-FM
90.7 WCLH-FM
MetalNetRadio
88.1 KZSC-FM
World Rock Radio
PODCASTS:
Rock And Roll Geek
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DaleCast #74, 75, 100
The Awful Show & Awful Snack
ENTER THE PINK (3 song CD):
Currently playing on:
-WFMU/New York
-Sirius OutQ/Cable radio
-FBi 94.5 "Let's All Turn On"/Sydney, Australia
Links
| http://www.pinksteel.com |