Anvil

If you didn't vote in the last presidential election, don't fret. Now is your chance to stand up and be heard by casting your votes for the nine categories of the second annual Revolver Golden Gods Awards.The ceremony will be held April 8 at Club Nokia in Los Angeles, where winners will be revealed live on stage, with a broadcast on VH1 Classic on May 22...

Want to put some metal back in your summer festival plans? Canada has the answer in Heavy MTL, a two-day festival in Parc Jean-Drapeau at Île Saint-Hélène, Montréal. Heavy MTL is set for July 24 and 25. Heavy MTL was first held in 2008, and organizers took a hiatus from the event in 2009. This year, Heavy MTL is b...

There are three Canadian songs on Six Feet Under's new covers album, 'Graveyard Classics III' -- Anvil's 'Metal On Metal,' Bachman-Turner Overdrive's 'Not Fragile' and Exciter's 'Pounding Metal' -- and it might have something to do with frontman Chris Barnes' affinity for America's neighbor to the north...

"Do you really think we care about sacred songs?" laughs Six Feet Under frontman Chris Barnes. He's responding to a question about how the best-selling death metal band short-listed the cover songs for 'Graveyard Classics III.' "Actually," he reconsiders, "I can't remember what song it is now, but there was a song someone said to me recently, 'Man, you should try this...

We all need a story of hope. If any band offers unlimited hope, it is Anvil. The metal warriors time forgot are finally a metal household name, but you wouldn't know it by talking to any member of the band. To them, the fame roller coaster has been fun, but they're staying ever humble throughout the ride...

"We've been successful for many years. We've put out 13 albums, we've been touring for 32 years," Anvil drummer Robb Reiner asserts to Noisecreep. "We've got 10s of thousands of die-hard fans around the world, and we've had success all along...

To say the last couple of years have been a whirlwind for Canadian metallers Anvil is a bit of an understatement. Thanks to the mass popularity of the 2008 documentary 'Anvil! The Story of Anvil,' the forefathers of modern metal are enjoying a mass renaissance and getting the credit they so richly deserve...

One of the coolest parts about being part of the Noisecreep family is getting to talk shop with some of our favorite people in the hard rock scene. Ian Christe is one of the most respected figures in the world of heavy metal. Perhaps best known for his exhaustive 'Sound of the Beast' metal history book, Christe has also started his own publishing company called Bazillion Points Publishing where he

It used to be that Anvil played mostly for die-hards -- guys with names like 'Mad Dog' and 'Cut Loose' -- true believers who had followed the pioneering Canadian metal band since its early-'80s brush with fame. Now, given the success of the documentary 'Anvil...

Overkill started touring the U.S. back in the '80s, when some Noisecreep readers weren't even zygotic. The legendary Jersey thrashers are celebrating 25 years of making a glorious metal racket with 'Ironbound,' due out in February on E1. "We got signed in 1984 and it started with us on Halloween night when we opened for a band called Anvil," frontman Bobby 'Blitz' Ellsworth told Noisecr