Anvil! The True Story of Anvil is the year’s most praised rock doc, a film that follows Canadian heavy-metal outfit Anvil on their 30-year-plus quest for rock stardom and respect. The Smoking ...

Canadian heavy metallers Anvil have just announced a huge list of U.S. tour dates. The veteran act will begin their trip on Feb. 5 in Brooklyn, N.Y., and finish up in Seattle on March 20. If you love ...

This is not how they teach it in Rock Star 101: Spend three decades cranking out unapologetic speed metal. Work demoralizing day jobs to support your rock ‘n’ roll habit. Watch bands you influenced go ...

What did it take to entice Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider, Super Size Me‘s Morgan Spurlock, and some 500 chain-smoking, beer-drinking, leather-jacketed metalheads out into the freezing New York City rain ...

The 2009 documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil unmasked this Toronto band as a real-life Spinal Tap, founded by two polite Jewish boys who never caught a break. Questions of musical worth went mostly ...

Decades before they became documentary stars, larger-than-life Canadians Anvil were the headbangingest band on the block, and their pounding signature song was one of the great heavy metal anthems ...

If you’re a fledgling metal band trying to break into the big time, allowing a movie to be made about your struggles is probably a bad idea. Of course you all know about Anvil, a band whose Real Life ...

What band was the most influential in establishing the sound of metal when the genre emerged and found its audience back in the early 1980s? If you know it's Canadian metal band Anvil, more ...

When initially asked about laying claim as an originator, Kudlow responded, "We're older. What else am I gonna say? I'm two or three years older than those guys. End of story. I was in line first.

Anvil started out as Lips in 1978, but by the time it released its debut album, Hard ‘N’ Heavy, in 1981, it was going by the name we know today. The first three Anvil albums, including Metal on Metal ...

Anvil plays DNA Lounge in San Francisco on Tuesday, May 31. Courtesy SPV Steamhammer Anvil plays DNA Lounge in San Francisco on Tuesday, May 31. Rico von Hollen/Courtesy SPV Steamhammer Until eight ...

Speaking of bands that could use a boost, the Bowery Electric has quite the eclectic calendar of upcoming shows. One band that stands out is Metal Pistol, who are playing a few dates in around NYC in ...