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PINK STEEL

GAY HEAVY METAL AT ITS HARDEST!

About Me

"Raucously Sexy"
--Rachel Kramer Bussell, VILLAGE VOICE
"Oh, Yes."
--BLENDER Magazine
PINK STËËL makes heavy metal gay, and gay heavy metal funny as hell--blurring the lines between music, comedy, Motley Crüe and Mary Poppins to create a fabulous, fist-pumping arena rock concert experience that will leave you singing tunes like "We Fight For Cock" "I'm Comin' Out (All Over You)" and "Sausage Party" for days--whether you want to or not.
"Outlandish performanance and inspired bitchiness."
--TIME OUT NEW YORK

" The gays from hell."
--NEXT Magazine

THE HISTORY:
Born in Bremen, Germany, Hanson Jobb and Udo Von DüYü have made good on their sacred pledge to "conquer the world, one bath house at a time." But PINK STËËL's rightful place in the great book of Gay Heavy Metal has been 20 years in the making.

"The two have made gay heavy metal history."
--INSTINCT Magazine

The flashpoint of this journey was September 1983, when founding members Udo Von DüYü (guitar, vocals) and Hanson Jobb (vocals) encountered each other in a smoky Rotterdam bathhouse/nightclub. Hanson had just finished "chatting" in the back room with several Nigerian wrestlers. A forlorn Udo was smothering his sorrows at the bar after his lover had left him for a cantaloupe with a hole cut in it. The two natives of Bremen, Germany immediately recognized each other from high school swim team. And the rest--as documented in the power ballad "Two Men Enter, One Man Loves"--is Gay Heavy Metal history.

PINK STËËL have spread the gospel of Gay Heavy Metal ever since, covering the eastern U.S., northern Europe, and parts of Estonia. With the seminal albums Mouth Full of Magic, Creaming for Vengeance, and the upcoming Out at the Devil, PINK STËËL have duly carved their names into men's room walls and into hard rock legend.

"Their hysterical and catchy songs meld Ozzy Ozbourne with Oscar Wilde. "
--HX Magazine

UND WHAT'S THIS ABOUT A DRUMMER?

Still reading? Good. Hanson and Udo met drummer Helmut Bang at the 1999 Atomare Schreie von den Homosexuellen art exhibition in Mannheim. Bang, a part-time Audi mechanic and successful ice sculptor, impressed the duo with his four-meter phallus. Sure enough, the three got to talking--or rather, "talking." And the rest--as documented in Helmut's out-of-print chapbook Schlagen Meine Häute ("Banging My Skins")--is bad, indulgent German poetry. And history.

"They will have your sides aching from laughing all night."
--BUST Magazine

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/10/2005
Band Website: pinksteel.com
Band Members: Hanson Jobb: Vocals
Udo Von DüYü: Guitars
Helmut Bang: Drums

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Influences: Judas Priest, Rob Halford, Black Sabbath, Cher, Poison, Falco, CC, KK, AJ, und Paul Lynde.
Sounds Like: Classic 80s hair metal, but more German, with original songs, und you know, gayer.

Song titles include "We Fight For Cock!", "Frodonator," "More To Love," und "I'm Comin' Out (All Over You)," So you know it's quality.

You can buy buy PINK STEEL SONGS from iTunes , you know.

Und buy the whole friggin' album here!

PINK STEEL: Out At The Devil

Booty-shaking tarted-up 80s-style hair metal that's gayer than Christmas at Halford's house.

Pink Steel's hot new video: Converter!

PINK STEEL praised on WGN-TV Chicago!

Und check out how much our PINK STEEL NAVY loves us!

Record Label: Fistful of Love
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

NEW VIDEO: "Converter"

We know you want to taste it--we wouldn't make you chase it!You've been waiting with baited pecs, peoples, und here it is--the video for "Converter!" Thanks to Ken Grobe for getting his vid o...
Posted by PINK STEEL on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 04:37:00 PST

TWO songs in the AMERICAN IDOL Top Ten!

Peoples, you don't even know! After spending a full week with We Fight For Cock at 23, SOMETHING WUNDERBAR happened und We now have TWO songs in the American Idol online Top Ten Comedy chart: We Figh...
Posted by PINK STEEL on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:44:00 PST

Still kicking AMERICAN IDOL ass!

Holding ever-so-firm at number 3, peoples! We are making American Idol online history by being the first Gay Metal band to spend seven straight weeks on the American Idol Comedy charts. Why are Randy...
Posted by PINK STEEL on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:15:00 PST

Udo on The Classic Metal Show!

Are PINK STEEL media whores, people? Yes. Yes, we are.Our own Udo Von DuYu spent a bit of his otherwise-packed Saturday night doing a live phoner with the nice boys at The Classic Metal Show! He took ...
Posted by PINK STEEL on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:37:00 PST

TWO songs on the AMERICAN IDOL charts!

That's right, peoples! Both We Fight For Cock! und Frodonator are firmly affixed on the American Idol charts. The public loves us!What we can't understand is how we are trailing behind songs like "Ora...
Posted by PINK STEEL on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:25:00 PST

PINK STEEL STICKER FRENZY!

Just in case you wondered whether PINK STEEL has scheisse-loads of fans......WE DO. ...
Posted by PINK STEEL on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:02:00 PST

EARLY 2008 LOVE: American Idol, Amazon, und MORE!

Peoples! The universe is conspiring to give us TONS of 2008 love. Work, universe!First of all, there is the American Idol online Comedy charts, which we are still burning up as if it were Lindsay Loh...
Posted by PINK STEEL on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 07:08:00 PST

Why Pitchfork hasn’t reviewed our record

Because apparently they are too busy reviewing the latest Janet Jackson video.How indie....
Posted by PINK STEEL on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:04:00 PST

Jigga PLUS!

Sie lieben uns! Sie lieben wirklich uns! We just heard from the fine folks at the Jigga Jones Radio Show! It turns out that they received such OVERWHELMING  response to our segment on the show th...
Posted by PINK STEEL on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:28:00 PST

Number 4 on the AMERICAN IDOL charts!

From number 5 to number 4 in one week, peoples! Thanks to you gorgeous ones, we are basically making the American Idol online Comedy charts our bitch. Und with your help, PINK STEEL will make it to 1 ...
Posted by PINK STEEL on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:44:00 PST