{"id":10573,"date":"2020-02-01T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=10573"},"modified":"2020-01-30T23:26:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T23:26:21","slug":"anvil-release-new-video-off-their-forthcoming-album-legal-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=10573","title":{"rendered":"ANVIL release New Video Off their forthcoming album\u00a0&#8216;Legal At Last&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANVIL have released their new music video<strong><em>\u00a0&#8216;Legal At Last&#8217;,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0the title track from their upcoming album.\u00a0<em>\u201cLegal At Last is our way of telling the public: \u2018It\u2019s okay, Anvil are okay, you\u2019re allowed to like us at last<\/em>!\u2019 \u201dstates Lips.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8216;Legal At Last&#8217;<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0will be released via AFM Records and the album will be available as digipak, digital, black vinyl and some limited colored vinyl.<br \/>\nANVIL got busted, back then when they were touring in Nebraska &amp; this is what their new pounding and powerful single is about. The reason?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/17u1hj34Ygw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to virtues such as endurance, unconditional commitment and a thoroughly down-to-earth attitude, Anvil are the measure of all things. Like few other metal acts, the band surrounding founding members Steve \u2018Lips\u2019 Kudlow (vocals, guitars) and Robb Reiner (drums), plus bassist Chris Robertson have earned their laurels of blood, sweat and tears.<\/p>\n<p>Since their 2009 documentary film<strong>\u00a0The Story Of Anvi<\/strong>l which revealed the unvarnished truth about the music industry, the world has been aware that the day-to-day life of most musicians doesn\u2019t consist of MTV Awards, Grammy ceremonies, red carpets, champagne and caviar but mainly of energy-sapping tours with little sleep, junk food and meagre earnings. Yet these difficult conditions have made Anvil what they are today: a band that stands rock solid in the turbulent waters of a musical genre that produces music like no other, by fans for fans.<\/p>\n<p>So Robb Reiner refers with a sense of justified pride to Anvil\u2019s latest release Legal At Last simply as \u201cone more Anvil album\u201d. Because quotes such as this show that the band has<br \/>\nsurvived despite all adversities, losing none of its musical style or sense of reality. Kudlow, Reiner or Robertson would never use clich\u00e9s such as \u201charder, faster, louder\u201d or attempt to present their own accomplishments as superhuman feats. Robb Reiner is right: Legal At Last is simply an impressive new statement by a band that stands for the same values in 2020 as it did when it was first launched in autumn 1978.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1JbnUCUA.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10574 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1JbnUCUA.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1JbnUCUA.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1JbnUCUA-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1JbnUCUA-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1JbnUCUA-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1JbnUCUA-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1JbnUCUA-1140x1140.jpeg 1140w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1JbnUCUA-65x65.jpeg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a>This new album is very special to Anvil: \u201c<em>Legal At Last is mainly about two things<\/em>,\u201d Reiner explains, pointing to the cover artwork with a grin. \u201c<em>We celebrate the legalisation of the Anvil bong because Canada changed its marijuana laws last year, which means we no longer sail close to the wind all the time. That\u2019s why the album title announces that Anvil are legal at last.<br \/>\nOur fans have always known that, but the public at large treated us like criminals for a long time.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Kudlow adds<em>: \u201cLegal At Last is our way of telling the public: \u2018It\u2019s okay, Anvil are okay, you\u2019re allowed to like us at last!<\/em>\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kudlow is referring to songs which highlight Anvil\u2019s great creative power. Be it the steam hammer flair of the title track, the unmistakably tongue-in-cheek \u2018Nabbed In Nebraska\u2019 with its driving mid-tempo groove which brings to mind the Anvil classic \u2018Metal On Metal\u2019, the critical undertones of \u2018Plastic In Paradise\u2019, the doomy orientation of \u2018Said And Done\u2019 and \u2018Gasoline\u2019, or fast and hard numbers such as \u2018No Time\u2019, \u2018Chemtrails\u2019 and \u2018Food For The Vulture\u2019: Anvil always get to the core of their characteristic sound. Which also applies to \u2018I\u00b4m Alive\u2019 and \u2018Bottom Line\u2019 \u2013 both rock numbers in the best sense of the term \u2013 and the comparatively catchy \u2018Glass House\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Talking of sound: For the first time in a career that spans more than forty years, Anvil have worked with the same producer on three consecutive albums. Like its predecessors, Anvil Is Anvil (2016) and Pounding The Pavement (2018), Legal At Last was produced by Martin \u2018Mattes\u2019 Pfeiffer (U.D.O., among others). J\u00f6rg Uken was in charge of mix and engineering at his Soundlodge studio in Rhauderfehn, Germany, where Pounding The Pavement was also finalised. Says Kudlow: \u201c<em>As a band, you need to surround yourself with people who share the same passion and commitment. Martin and J\u00f6rg have both, that\u2019s why we make a perfect team<\/em>.\u201d And that\u2019s exactly what every single note on Legal At Last oozes!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/anvilmetal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnvilMetal666\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANVIL have released their new music video\u00a0&#8216;Legal At Last&#8217;,\u00a0the title track from their upcoming album.\u00a0\u201cLegal At Last is our way of telling the public: \u2018It\u2019s okay, Anvil are okay, you\u2019re allowed to like us at last!\u2019 \u201dstates Lips. &#8216;Legal At Last&#8217;\u00a0will be released via AFM Records and the album will be available as digipak, digital, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[3686,3585,4377,4374,4376,2911,4375],"class_list":["post-10573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-afm-records","tag-anvil","tag-chris-robertson-bass","tag-lips","tag-robb-reiner-drums","tag-rpm-news","tag-steve-lips-kudlow-vocals-guitar","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10577,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10573\/revisions\/10577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}