Forged In Fire (Import) (CD)

Formed in 1977, Toronto's Anvil laid the foundation for North American speed metal, and eventually influenced bands like Metallica, Pantera, and Slayer. Anvil's special forte is combining aggressive heavy metal anthems with tongue-in-cheek humor, which led them to be adored and criticized simultaneously. They have released over a dozen studio albums, many of them having been reissued several times over. The band were also the subject of a feature film, ANVIL! THE STORY OF ANVIL, which became a surprise hit upon its theatrical release in 2009.

• Category:  Music  »  Hard Rock & Metal  »  General/Heavy Metal
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• Release Date: November 25, 2002
• Label: Attic Records
• UPC: 057362117020
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106682791
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #38083 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #1463 in Hard Rock & Metal (See Top 100 Hard Rock & Metal Bestsellers)
• #1022 in General/Heavy Metal (See Top 100 General/Heavy Metal Bestsellers)

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The second of Anvil's two influential cult classics, FORGED IN FIRE essentially refines the blueprint laid out on METAL ON METAL, showing a band more firmly in control of its muse. Lips's vocal performance is more polished and varied, yet no less unhinged; the technical riffery of the uptempo numbers is even more challenging; and Robb Reiner delivers a jaw-dropping performance, pulling out his genre-changing double-bass-drum technique on nearly every song and never letting the record's momentum flag. Even with all the blistering intensity on display here, FORGED IN FIRE isn't the all-out assault of KILL 'EM ALL; Anvil lacked the darker visions of the coming thrash movement, clearly having too much fun to conjure a tough-guy image.The heart of the album lies in the speed metal mayhem, but the band changes things up often enough to prevent monotony; the title track is a slow, head-pounding anthem, while the metal paean "Free as the Wind" and the groupie tribute "Hard Times -- Fast Ladies" strike a controlled balance between velocity and accessibility. Although METAL ON METAL is the more historically important release, Anvil aficionados often rate FORGED IN FIRE as the slightly better of the two simply by virtue of sheer musicality. This would be Anvil's last hurrah as heavy metal torchbearers; in 1983 alone, Def Leppard and Quiet Riot kicked off metal's conquest of the pop charts, while debut albums from Metallica and Slayer obliterated all standards of extremity in the metal underground. In the coming years, those two increasingly divergent paths left scant middle ground for straight-ahead metal practitioners like Anvil.

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