As mentioned, this film really gave Anvil a chance to get more publicity. Giving you more insight into Anvil, their story, and more, the set really lives up to the name ‘ultimate’ edition.Īll this in mind, it is important to reflect on the film itself and how important it is.
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Additionally, there is a new interview with Director Sacha Gervasi, as well as more interviews on disc 2 including a 93 min interview moderated by former MTV Host Matt Pinfield with Gervasi, plus Anvil’s Steve “Lips” Kudlow and Robb Reiner. For a start, this release is newly remastered with better imagery and sound. Odds are many have caught this documentary at some point in the thirteen years since its initial release, but for those who have not, this new 2-disc Blu-ray set has everything you could ask for.
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Now, the Heavy Metal lifers return with the 2-disc Ultimate Edition of Anvil! The Story of Anvil on January 20, 2023.Īnvil! The Story of Anvil movie poster / Utopia Now over four decades into their journey, Anvil still is going strong with a very busy year in 2022 – this included the release of Impact Is Imminent in May, a US tour also in the summer, and a theatrical re-release of Anvil! The Story of Anvil in September. In fact, it did, because they finally were getting better backing from record labels, just respect on proper tours, and they broke into charts with the re-release of This Is Thirteen in 2009, before following suit with 2011’s Juggernaut of Justice, 2013’s Hope in Hell, and 2016’s Anvil is Anvil. Also met with tremendous success, some might say the documentary gave the under-appreciated Heavy Metal band a second chance to get the recognition they rightfully deserved. Quickly mounting a swell of interest, a little over a year later, on April 10, 2009, it had a limited theatrical run. Maybe there is hope for Susan Boyle.Back in January of 2008, Anvil! The Story of Anvil premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. But they swore a pledge when they were 14, and they're still honoring it, and at 51, Lips knows he still has it and that Anvil will be back on the charts. The doc doesn't show one song all the way through. They play at the un-heavy-metal hour of 9:45 a.m. One CD finds its way to Japan, and they are invited to a Tokyo concert in a venue seating (an ominous omen) 10,000. They get the veteran producer Chris Tsangarides to cut their 13th album ("our best work," Lips says) but have to release it themselves. They were apparently spared the heavy metal plague of heavy drugs, although there is a little weed in one shot.ĭown and down they fall. The documentary, directed by Anvil fan (and " The Terminal" screenwriter) Sacha Gervasi, spends time in Toronto with Lips' and Robb's spouses, siblings, children. Lips shares the news that the venue seats 10,000: "I hear the mayor of Transylvania is going to be there!" The audience numbers 178. Were invited to the Monsters of Transylvania, a heavy metal event. This was the tour that went drastically wrong.
One, Tiziana Arrigoni of Sweden, books a European tour for Anvil. He burns with the original fire: The band will, will, will win the success it deserves.
Kudrow drives a delivery truck carrying school meals and explains the menu. Reiner is also seen working on a demolition project. "I was raised to be polite," says Reiner, after he fails at a job in telephone hard selling. Anvil had one modestly successful album ("Metal on Metal"), is credited as an influence by lots of heavy metal bands, had bad management, lousy record labels and was Canadian at a time (as now) when that doesn't feel synonymous with heavy metal.
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