Anvil - Metal On Metal
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Music CD Cover Artist: Anvil Edition: Music CD Audio: English (Unknown), Stereo Format: Import CD Release Date: 2002-10-10 Music Label: Attic Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Metal On Metal Album
Free Music Review: Extremely underlooked band
Hit: 4 Stars
While it was only suggested that on Anvil's first album the cringe inducing titled Hard 'N Heavy, that the band could cut it with major (at the time) metal acts like Priest, Maiden, Motorhead, Venom, Tygers Of Pan Tang, Diamond Head etc. Their 1982 follow up MOM certainly proved Anvil's stance. While there is a definte cheese factor to songs like Tag Team, Tease Me Please Me, and the obvious leap into satanic metal lore, 666, and the obvious anthemic title track. These songs are really good and they do rock. Especially the title track, which may be one of the most underlooked metal songs of all time, and easily is Anvil's best song. It all comes together on this album though some agree that their next album Forged In Fire reached the ultimate level of metal musicianship for Anvil. It's possible to hear a lot of influence in this record, like on March Of The Crabs seems to at times to have inspired Metallica's The Four Horsemen. While some of the above mentioned songs recal a lot of the simple big dumb but very fun lyrics and attitude a lot of the NWOBHM bands enployed, years later it adds on to the genuine metal feel. That is, of course if you support the theory that metal bands dont need to be evil, brutal or oozing with corpse make up to be "metal". While tracks like Heat Sink, Scenary, or the Godzilla/BOC send up Mothra would be construte as filler, they all have surprising hooks that will tell you otherwise. The most interesting track here though is Stop Me, which has a some surprising melodic edge to it and kinda reminds you of another 'lost' ballad from the early 80's metal heyday, Quiet Riot's Don't Wanna Let You Go (despite Anvil being a much better band than QR). This turned out to be my fav song off this album as the opening riff has something more laid back and musical than most metal bands (or at least the limited ones in the vein of Anvil) could pull off. So in the end, it's good to see this band finally getting some attention, and hopefully these early era Anvil albums will see some reissues or perhaps better availiability in the near future. Indeed, 666, the title track, and March Of The Crabs have gone on to be lost thrash nuggets and it is very possible that Metal On Metal is in fact the proto type speed metal record. How other pre Metallica speed and/or Canadian outfits like Exciter's albums stay in print over Anvil's is a lame mystery.