On Monday April 4th my best friend DC and his band finished their 2-year-lasting work on their latest release and send their MasterCD and -booklet to the factory so it may be ready on time for their release-show tonight with German thrash-cult-band "Tankard" here in Kassel.
That Monday, DC and me met at our local indie-theater and watched "Anvil", the documentary we were looking forward to see for almost a year now since the first trailers.
"Anvil" are roaming the scene since the early 80s with a brief success-phase in the mid 80s and since then on a stony, painful path through the underground without the success they surely would have deserved for their hard and honest work, not to mention for the sympathetic characters, optimism and wits of the two remaining firstmembers.
"Anvil" –DC even owns two vinyls- inspired the great ones such as Metallica; early in the movie, Lars Ulrich among other Metal-stars- give brief statements to the status of the band in the mid/early 80s. Btw I'm glad that this was only a short section – the ego-wrenching drummer of "Zerfallica" regularly annoys the hell out of me! Then the docu continues to show the regular daily life of the two Anvil-chiefs with old and new footage from privacy, their average 9to5-workdays and old and latest recording- and tour docu-footage. The film shows the emotional edge and stress of self-financed recording-sessions, the risk and disaster of bad-planned tours, the embarrassment to play practically empty arenas, nevertheless giving their best with highly professional attitude, the anger about crappy promotion and being betrayed of the payment. THIS was surely one of the most touching and emphasizing parts of the film: the desperation and disappointment over lacking success no matter how hard you give your best jumps off the screen and virtually tied us to the band! Again: forget those whimpy divas from Metallica... Some kind of Monster my a$$! THIS is truly heart-melting!
After about 90 minutes we left the cinema and here it comes: this was surely one of the best rock/metal-documentaries we've ever had seen and probably there wouldn't have been any better day to watch it than the day DCs own band ("Mortal Terror", est. 1986) finished the work on their own album. This is real and authentic! If you want to know something about how the metal-underground fells like you mustn't miss this movie!
Oh by the way Lips: we even laughed our hearts out over your Germany-inspired painting! Well done buddy! Just in case you thought Germans ain't got no self-irony ;-) Can I get a copy?
(Please regard the thread "Allies Of Anvil" on this discussion-board.)
That Monday, DC and me met at our local indie-theater and watched "Anvil", the documentary we were looking forward to see for almost a year now since the first trailers.
"Anvil" are roaming the scene since the early 80s with a brief success-phase in the mid 80s and since then on a stony, painful path through the underground without the success they surely would have deserved for their hard and honest work, not to mention for the sympathetic characters, optimism and wits of the two remaining firstmembers.
"Anvil" –DC even owns two vinyls- inspired the great ones such as Metallica; early in the movie, Lars Ulrich among other Metal-stars- give brief statements to the status of the band in the mid/early 80s. Btw I'm glad that this was only a short section – the ego-wrenching drummer of "Zerfallica" regularly annoys the hell out of me! Then the docu continues to show the regular daily life of the two Anvil-chiefs with old and new footage from privacy, their average 9to5-workdays and old and latest recording- and tour docu-footage. The film shows the emotional edge and stress of self-financed recording-sessions, the risk and disaster of bad-planned tours, the embarrassment to play practically empty arenas, nevertheless giving their best with highly professional attitude, the anger about crappy promotion and being betrayed of the payment. THIS was surely one of the most touching and emphasizing parts of the film: the desperation and disappointment over lacking success no matter how hard you give your best jumps off the screen and virtually tied us to the band! Again: forget those whimpy divas from Metallica... Some kind of Monster my a$$! THIS is truly heart-melting!
After about 90 minutes we left the cinema and here it comes: this was surely one of the best rock/metal-documentaries we've ever had seen and probably there wouldn't have been any better day to watch it than the day DCs own band ("Mortal Terror", est. 1986) finished the work on their own album. This is real and authentic! If you want to know something about how the metal-underground fells like you mustn't miss this movie!
Oh by the way Lips: we even laughed our hearts out over your Germany-inspired painting! Well done buddy! Just in case you thought Germans ain't got no self-irony ;-) Can I get a copy?
(Please regard the thread "Allies Of Anvil" on this discussion-board.)