ANVIL To Head To Los Angeles For CRITICS' CHOICE AWARDS

ANVIL, the Canadian heavy metal band whose "Cinderella" story, "Anvil! The Story of Anvil", is nominated for a Critics' Choice movie award in the category of "Best Documentary", will travel to Los Angeles to attend the awards presentation that will be held at the Hollywood Palladium this Friday, January 15.

The rockumentary has been named one of 2009's best documentaries by a slew of film critics associations across the continent, including critics in Chicago, San Francisco, Toronto, and Las Vegas, as well as the International Documentary Association, the Online Film Critics Society, and the National Society of Film Critics. It also made the year-end Top 10 lists in publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, and Village Voice.

The 15th annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards will be broadcast January 15 live on VH1 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

That's the good news.

The bad news is that the trip to Los Angeles means ANVIL, who kicked off its "The Anvil Experience" North American tour in Cleveland, Ohio last week, will have to cancel its January 14 date in Baltimore, Maryland and the New York City date set for January 15. But, it's not all bad news as the New York date has been rescheduled to take place on Friday, March 19, still at the Gramercy Theatre, still with an 8 p.m. show time. Tickets purchased for the January 15 show will be honored on March 19.

And there's more ANVIL tour news. Originally, "The Anvil Experience" concerts were going to open with a screening of the "Anvil! The Story of Anvil" documentary followed by the band playing a live set. However, according to ANVIL's guitarist/vocalist Steve "Lips" Kudlow, "We've been so fortunate with the success of the film and then the DVD, so many people have already seen it, so we've decided that this tour is going to be all about the music, we're just going to play our set, and just ROCK with the fans. 'The Anvil Experience' will be an evening of pure, unadulterated rock'n'roll." Local bands will open the shows.

The 27-date concert tour — the band's first major tour in more than a decade — is in support of "Anvil! The Story of Anvil", as well as the band's latest album, "This Is Thirteen", which one rock critic called ANVIL's "best record in over two decades."

ANVIL kicked off its 2010 North American tour this past Thursday night (January 7) in Cleveland, Ohio at the House Of Blues. The band performed an 85-minute set to a very large crowd despite blizzard conditions. Cleveland metal acts DESTRUCTOR and ETERNAL LEGACY provided support at the gig.

ANVIL's setlist was as follows:

01. March Of The Crabs
02. 666
03. School Love
04. Winged Assassins
05. This Is Thirteen
06. Mothra
07. Flying Blind
08. Thumb Hang
09. White Rhino
10. Mad Dog
11. Forged In Fire
12. Metal On Metal

Encore:

13. Jackhammer

Quality fan-filmed video footage of the concert can be viewed below.