Can you believe that these guys were playing parody metal way before Steel Panther stole the show? Skrapp metal recorded one album - this one - back in '91, and no-one batted an eyelid, I guess that was down to the fact that metal was still in force, and for the most part if you hear this in the distance this sounds like your average metal band. The vocals of Jeff Scott Soto were pretty mercurial, hinting at Whitesnake's David Coverdale, particularly on the swanky swagger of 'Retire or Die,' but elsewhere this is very much comedy metal - yet played astonishingly well...maybe too well? This archetype metal but when you hear the hilarious 'That Load' or 'Spunk' then you know you're in for a hair metal orgasm. All very much tongue in cheek, it's late '80s metal at its corniest but again, the playing is pretty decent but one can only laugh at the lyrics, "Give her a spunk sandwich for lunch..." then we begin to wonder just how Steel Panther got away with it! I guess for SP it was a case of right place right time, because Skrapp Mettle did nothing else after this and faded into the annals of metal folklore, but if you like cheesy metal that doesn't take itself too seriously then give this a spin.
6/10
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