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 ...

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 we interviewed Anvil! The Story of Anvil director Sacha Gervasi back in April, he told us the documentary’s “happy ending is what’s happening after the film.” And it’s true — since the movie’s ...

If you haven’t seen the gonzoid documentary Anvil about this similarly absurd and bigger-than-life power-metal ensemble, mark this page and hie thee to your screen of choice … ah, welcome back. Anvil ...

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 ...

Recently, the Power Trip Live Festival was announced. Taking place during an October weekend in Indio, Calif., on the grounds where Coachella occurs each year, it features a Who’s Who of hard rock and ...

Rescued from the brink of obscurity by acclaimed 2008 rock doc Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Canadian band Anvil have since reclaimed their spot in history as a seminal 1980s metal force. While lack of ...

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 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 ...