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November 17, 2008

The Playlist: Anvil comes to theaters Spring 2009... Book to coincide...

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Word has just hit from the director himself, former Anvil roadie-turned filmmaker, Sacha Gervasi (he wrote Spielberg’s “The Terminal”), who points us to an announcement that the film is finally ready to hit theaters proper in spring 2009. Even better: the film will have a book-tie-in through Random House to coincide with the doc’s release. An announcement on who will distribute the film is expected around Thanksgiving and the book will essentially be their expanded autobiography (hello, must-read, please send).

Here’s the synopsis for the book, which is pretty much the same for the film.

At fourteen, Toronto school friends Steve “Lips” Kudlow and Robb Reiner made a pact to rock together forever. Their band Anvil went on to become the “demi-gods of Canadian metal,” releasing one of the heaviest albums in metal history, 1982’s“Metal on Metal. The album influenced a musical generation including Metallica, Slayer and Anthrax. All those bands went on to sell millions of records but Anvil’s career would take a different path – straight to obscurity.


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