Peoples, we've fought many things over the years: homophobia, anti-Germanism, Helmut Bang's hygiene habits...

...but today, PINK STEEL goes on the offensive against swarms of angry crickets--all to save a small Nevada Town.

As you may have read in Boing Boing, The Wall Street Journal, or places we don't care about, the tiny 13-person town of Tuscarora, Nevada is about to be assaulted by swarms of Mormon Crickets! (That is actually their name)

They arrive in the millions und they are implacable! Unstoppable! They eat crops, they clog up car windshields, und just generally nehmen sie eine scheisse on the town's collective birthday cake.

BUT...there is one thing that has been proven to drive away these nasty buggers:

ROCK MUSIC.

There is something about the frequencies emitted by loud rock music that drives the crickets away. So the towns people depend on a local radio station--MIX 96.7 FM--for their music.

This is where we knew we could help.

As I write this, the US mail is carrying a hot little package to MIX 96.7. A package containing 14 copies of our legendary album, OUT AT THE DEVIL--one for every citizen of Tuscarora und one for the radio station.

For if any rock music is going to defeat swarms of Mormon Crickets, it is certainly going to be Gay Metal! Why? Three reasons:

1. Our sonic assault has been known to melt insect shells at forty meters. PINK STEEL will rock those crickets right out of the air.

2. Our tunes, especially “Converter,” have been known to turn males of any species into caftan-donning Friends of Dorothy. Do you know what you get when you turn a swarm of crickets gay? You get NO MORE BABY CRICKETS.

3. Ever since Prop 8 passed in California, we have issue with things that have the word "Mormon" in them. So we have some skin in the game here.

We hope that our records arrive in time to help the fine people of Tuscarora, NV! Und if you live in the Tuscarora/Elko, NV area, call or email MIX 96.7 und make sure to request PINK STEEL (800.888.9964 or requests@rubyradio.fm). It's for their own good!


GAY METAL SAVES!

Gay Metal band shows manly love with Creative Commons-cleared songs from album OUT AT THE DEVIL.

San Francisco, CA: New-York-based, Bremen, Germany-bred gay heavy metal outfit PINK STËËL are offering free downloads of songs and tracks for their mashup-loving fans.

The tunes are offered to the pubic on a Creative Commons Attribution - Noncommercial - Share Alike 3.0 United States License, and the band encourages fans to remix, mash-up, and create videos with their songs, stems and tracks.

Free PINK STËËL tracks and songs for mash-ups include party anthem "Sausage Party," Tolkein send-up "Frodonator," and Dio-esque headbangathon "Converter." the tracks can be downloaded at pinksteel.com/loads.html.

The songs are from PINK STËËL's gay metal magnum opus, Out at the Devil. Filled with fabulous, fist-pumping arena-rock gems, Out at the Devil will leave you singing tunes like such as "We Fight for Cock" "I'm Coming Out (All Over You)" and "More to Love" for days --whether you want to or not. From the guitar-lathered dance-metal of "Sausage Party" to the JRR-Tolkein-meets-the-Stepford-Wives epic "Frodonator" to the savvy power-balladization of 80s new wave favorite "Johnny, Are You Queer?", Out at the Devil crosses boundaries of gender preference and good taste alike, uniting irony fans of every stripe.

"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

Meet "The Pink and Black Bareback Attack"

PINK STËËL is Singer Hanson Jobb, guitarist Udo Von DuYu, bassist Klaus Schave and drummer Helmut Bang, creating crossover comedy-rock cabaret that co-mingles gay culture and heavy metal bluster with punch-line songwriting. Each performance gives every audience front row seats to a stadium-style rock show unlike any other.

According to Instinct Magazine, the band has "...made gay heavy metal history." HX Magazine raves, "Their hysterical and catchy songs meld Ozzy Ozbourne with Oscar Wilde." In addition to conquering the New York City club scene, the Bad Boys from Bremen have blown away music festivals such as CMJ, Homocorps and Oktoberfist, comedy festivals including the Chicago and Seattle Sketchfests, and have appeared on the WGN-TV Morning News.

Album Out Now!

Out at the Devil is available on iTunes, at CDBaby.com, and at bathhouses everywhere.

For more information on PINK STËËL go to: pinksteel.com.
To purchase OUT AT THE DEVIL: cdbaby.com/pinksteel2
Online press kit (with MP3s) available at sonicbids.com/pinksteel

GOOD TIMES!

Peoples, you have always known in your little hearts that PINK STEEL are trailblazers. Now you will have a reason why.

Recently, there has been a hubub at New York's Museum of Modern Art, as some of their posters from a recent campaign were defaced to create new messaging. Silly, no? Well, not silly to MOMA. It looks like they may press charges over the whole thing.

Also not certain is whether or not the defacing was done by the guerilla artist known as Poster Boy, or whether it was a Poster Boy-inspired marketing scheme by The Happy Corp.

Either way, PINK STEEL did it first.



Or did you never notice years of PINK STEEL subway stickering, performed by our loving fans?

Even the Village Voice described the Happy Corp vanadalism as "fucking shit up"...which is the PINK STEEL tagline! (PS The Village Voice loves PINK STEEL!)

Now would be a good time to refresh your memory. See all the sticky PINK STEEL wonder can see it all on at PINK STEEL Sticker-ings, und in this video: "Pink Steel: a Life in Stickers."

That's right peoples! Our PINK STEEL Navy got it on while Poster Boy was still discovering his sexuality in art school. We love his work...but we're sure Pollack loved Picasso, too.

Hello Peoples! We'll cut right to the chase. Do you want an autographed copy of the PINK STEEL Gay Metal Magnum Opus OUT AT THE DEVIL?

You do? Well you'd better hurry. THERE IS JUST ONE LEFT!

We donated five of them to the wonderful Louis Fowler, super-hot DJ of the DAMAGED HEARING radio show on 88.9 KRFC-FM in Fort Collins, CO.  Turns out that the STEEL are big favorites, so when he was looking for pledge drive submissions, we sent him the discs.

He has given away four of them already. WHICH MEANS THERE IS JUST ONE LEFT.

From his website:


On a recent episode, Louis dedicated a whole show to us, playing PS cuts like Frodonator, Sausage Party, Derek & Steve, Converter, More to Love, undJohnny, Are You Queer? (All of which are radio-friendly thank you!)

So it is our pleasure to send many of you to him. Und hurry! There is only one autographed copy left! What are you waiting for?

(Und also, if you work at a college radio or public radio station und are having a pledge drive, und you would like some autographed copies of OUT AT THE DEVIL to give to pledgers, let us know. We love to support listener-supported radio mit our sordid fame!)

GOOD TIMES!

It's true, Navy! They said so in their blog. The AllMusic Guide loves PINK STEEL!

Case in Point: a recent addition to the AllMusic.com Blog, titled Hot Damn Jamz VII: Are You Laughing Yet? They not only love us, but also our contemporaries und close pals Children of the Unicorn und Tragedy, featuring Out At the Devil producer Royce Peterson! Is this a sexy haufenfickt or what?

Sure, PINK STEEL has an AllMusic entry, but Who knew that AllMusic loved gay metal? They are on our jocks und we return the jocking.

GOOD TIMES!

According to Eyeburn blog.

Also, not.

You know, some people think of PINK STEEL as "that German band that lives in America und occasionally goes to kick Eastern Europe's ass. Und that's fine.

But did you know that we have sold albums around the ENTIRE WORLD? Here are some sample cities where OUT OF THE DEVIL has made inroads:

Hyogo-ken, Japan
Caracas, Venezuela
Dublin, Ireland
Thiene, Italy
South Lanarkshire, Great Britain
Nottingham, Great Britain
Bavaria, Germany
Cauge, France
Harstad, Norway

Und that's not even counting our sales on iTunes or Amazon!

PINK STEEL: world famous in many places!

Can you believe it? In C-Dawg's list of C-Dawg's Top Ten Funny Bands, your favorite PINK STEEL came in at number 2, just below Flight of the Conchords. Which, okay, we can deal with. They have a TV show in the US und ours is on Bremen Public Access.

Und you know what else we can deal with? That we beat the pants off of Weird Al, Tenacious D, The Smothers Brothers, Adam Sandler, und some British metal tribute act.

Suck it, all bands we beat who make more money than us! C-Dawg says we rule you!

Und if you want a piece of that C-Dawg-endorsed goodness, remember that our Gay Metal Opus OUT AT THE DEVIL is only HALF PRICE until January 1! That's right bitches! Five bucks for twelve songs! Buy it now at CD Baby und it will ship in 24 hours! Give the gift of number two this holiday season!

(PS: Coming in at Number six is God's Pottery, whom we love in a very Jesusy way und recommend highly. If you are in San Francisco this January, make sure to check them out at SF Sketchfest. Tell them PINK STEEL sent you...to convert them!)