[1] Unlike the debut album and their Metal Sludge compilation tracks, Feel the Steel is composed entirely of songs, lacking any spoken word comedy skits present on earlier releases.

Jason Lymangrover of Allmusic wrote that "Steel Panther's ability to create songs that sound like they came from 1987 is commendable.

As David St. Hubbins said, "It's such a fine line between stupid and clever," and Saenz's locker-room humor wears thin quickly.

"[4] Sophie Bruce of the BBC stated "Quite simply, Feel the Steel is an utter feelgood masterpiece.

"[5] The Independent wrote that "it's essentially Spinal Tap/Bad News brought forward five years to the coked-up cock-rock era, complete with titles such as 'Eatin' Ain't Cheatin'' and dangerous levels of dumb-ass homophobia, sexism, racism and sizeism.