Name: Anvil + Support Grey Attack & Tarchon Fist Live at The Abyss
Start: 2024-10-27T19:30:00+02:00
Location: Andra Långgatan 35, Gothenburg, Sweden

Anvil + Support Grey Attack & Tarchon Fist Live at The Abyss

Stage time:
19:00
20:00
21:15
ANVIL
When it comes to the most influential bands in the history of heavy
metal, authorities on the subject regularly vote Anvil
among the top positions. The group from Toronto, Canada, with its two
masterminds, Steve ‘Lips’ Kudlow and Robb Reiner,
and bassist Chris Robertson, not only looks back at an impressive career
with countless highlights – as well as a number of
well-documented difficulties – but has also had a lasting influence on
lots of internationally renowned musicians, from
Metallica to Slayer and beyond. Their latest studio album is aptly
entitled ‘One And Only’: Anvil are and will always be one of
a kind and are continuing to shape the contemporary metal scene just as
impressively as they did at the beginning of their
career. How they achieve this? Thanks to their straightforward metal
fuelled by cutting riffs and catchy hooks, which the
musicians continue to celebrate with admirable effortlessness and great
passion. “We’re more like our old selves than we’ve
been in years,” comments frontman Lips Kudlow on the new album, adding:
“We’ve dropped all our more modern aspects,
particularly the 90s version of Anvil. No sexual topics and no thrash
speed songs like they featured on past albums.” ‘One
And Only’, the band’s 20th (!) studio recording to date, will be
available on AFM from June 28th. The first single/video ‘Feed
Your Fantasy’ has been out since 5 April 2024, with the title track
‘Truth is Dying’ to follow as second lead single on May 10th
So it’s fair to say that what we have here is a quintessential Anvil
album. Chris Robertson and drummer Robb Reiner keep
the up the pace with their usual confidence, providing the perfect
rhythm section for guitarist/vocalist Lips. Could there be a
more characteristic Anvil song than the breezy ‘Dead Man’s Shoes’?
Highly unlikely. Will ‘Fighting For Your Rights’ and ‘Blind
Rage’ put as much strain on your neck muscles as the great Anvil
classics from the glorious eighties? You bet they will! At the
same time, ‘One And Only’ wouldn’t be complete if it didn’t hold a
number of little surprises in store for the band’s fans, as
usual: The mid-tempo ‘Feed Your Fantasy’ plus video clip have turned
into a shuffle-style number that is pretty unusual for
Anvil, while ‘Heartbroken’ with its slow groove has a doomy flair that
occasionally brings to mind Black Sabbath
Support to be announced shortly.