ANVIL Working With SLAYER's Manager, COLDPLAY's Booking Agent

February 18, 2009

According to the U.K.'s The List, Canadian metal legends ANVIL are now working with SLAYER's manager and COLDPLAY's booking agent. "We're coming into the summer of our career; it's been a long, long winter but the sun's gonna come out," says guitarist/vocalist Steve "Lips" Kudlow. "This is the Rocky Balboa of heavy metal, people want to see us win the fight, I've been punching sides of beef for 30 years. The most important point is the ending of [the acclaimed documentary 'Anvil! The Story Of Anvil' is not the end, we're writing that now."

"Anvil! The Story of Anvil" is a mockumentary-like true account of fiftysomething Canadian heavy-metal practitioners Steve "Lips" Kudlow and Robb Reiner who, after a desultory European tour with their band ANVIL, decide to record a 13th album in a final attempt to fulfill their boyhead dreams of stardom.

Regarding comparisons with 1984's "This is Spinal Tap", Kudlow said, "If you make a documentary about a rock band, it's always going to be compared to 'the almighty. 'Spinal Tap' is so good because it copies reality, but this is real."

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