With cover art and an album title double entendre that I can hardly keep a straight face over, Anvil rolls out its 18th studio full lengt...

Anvil has honestly put together a pretty decent run since the release of their documentary, with This is Thirteen and Juggernaut   of Ju...

If Anvil! The Story of Anvil and its two neighboring studio efforts This is Thirteen and Juggernaut of Justice marked a resurgence or R...

Hope in Hell is an interminably frustrating album because while its fully smooth and consistent with Anvil 's canon, it just seems so...

Monument of Metal is the second of Anvil 's major compilations, and about the best I can say for it is that it's a fraction less wo...

I've already gone on at length about Sacha Gervasi's documentary on the life and times of aging Canadian rockers Anvil , and even wr...

After about 14-15 years of towing the lines of mediocrity, Anvil had begun to have the opposite affect of a fine wine: aging poorly. So it ...

Much like the irony of Plenty of Power was its treacherous lack of said power, the irony inherent to Still Going Strong is that Anvil was ...

The 90s felt like a decade of lost causes for traditional metal bands, and it would have been nearly impossible for a group like Anvil to m...

It had to happen sooner or later, and I'm surprised it took as long as it did, but at last, the very first official Anvil compilation a...

Indifference and respect. Two words that, combined, defined my reaction and relationship to the 'mid period' of Canada's endurin...

Absolutely No Alternative is just another of those 90s era Anvil records which, while doing nothing particularly wrong, failed to further th...

As much as I've enjoyed Anvil in the past, and as much as I always want to sympathize with their plight after seeing their documentary,...

The Anvil of the 90s turned out to be considerably less appealing than that of the 80s, not for any lack of trying but for a lack of those ...

Eight years and five studio full-lengths into a career seems a very reasonable point at which to release a live record, and so for their fin...

Strength of Steel might have churned Anvil to a halt as far as the band's linear progression in the 80s, but that doesn't mean that...

Strength of Steel is about the point at which I realized Anvil were not likely to progress much further. I don't say that like it was ...

So "Butter-Bust Jerky" examined the joys of splashing your man-wax on a lover's bouncing assets, and now we've got a compi...

It's often the case that a band seeing a brief and sudden splash of success will attempt to closely emulate that success, if not note fo...

Anvil might have had a pretty good start with Hard 'n' Heavy , but it was the sophomore Metal on Metal that would usher in a new wa...