Steel Panther released their second album "Balls Out" on October 31, 2011 in the UK and on November 1, 2011 in North America also through Universal Republic. "Balls Out" continued their revival of the heavy metal genre and debuted at No. 1 on the UK iTunes Rock chart surpassing Megadeth's "TH1RT3EN" and Lou Reed's and Metallica's" Lulu". "Balls Out" also debuted at No. 4 on the US iTunes Rock chart, No. 40 on the Billboard 200 chart and at No. 1 on the Billboard Comedy chart with first-week sales of 12,000 copies in the US.