![]() Am guessing the title is not about crustaceans they observed at the beach, but what maybe some groupies gave them. The buzz saw riff scored them some points. But the instrumental “ March Of The Crabs” gets their impending rating moved up a few notches. Mothra comes next and I’m already starting to eat my words “Maybe these guys aren’t that bad after all…” Well, Stop Me gets me back on the “not really that good” bandwagon. The title track leads off and keeps my attention because there’s something that sounds like a Black Sabbath riff I like. Because at the end of the day I like loud no-brainer stuff I can crank out the sunroof of my car in the summer. ![]() And hey, for the most part, any hard rock/heavy metal with a chugging guitar and some decent vocals and production… I’ll give it a listen. Liked this one a lot better than I thought. And as happened a lot with many albums in the Classic Rock Album of The Week Club sometimes you get surprised. So, the bar was pretty low for me when I started to listen to Metal On Metal. I didn’t really think they “should have been the next big thing.” After watching the movie I was talking to another music nut at work and he thought the same thing as me “I liked the movie, nice guys and all, but their songs suck.” And that was the last I had heard any Anvil. Hey, everybody likes an underdog and these guys just really wanted to rock. Greg Schwepe: My only previous exposure to Anvil before this week’s selection was the documentary put out about them a few years ago. Every aspect of it – from the band’s name to the cover image to the songs herein – screams metal, leaving little doubt that Anvil’s second album clearly belongs in our Hall of Fame." ( Decibel) "In spite of the travails of these long-suffering Canadian heshers, Metal On Metal remains unassailable, the foundation of not only the band’s decades-long career, but also a key influence on the thrash metal it inspired. Case in point, the manic riffing provided by Steve “Lips” Kudlow and Dave Allison on March Of The Crabs and 666, while the title track remains a headbanger party anthem." ( Guitar World) "Although the term ‘thrash metal’ may not have yet been coined in 1982, several albums appeared that would prove incredibly important to the genre’s birth – including the sophomore effort by this Canadian band. It isn't the kind of classic that redefined its form instead, it upped the ante for an already existing M.O., setting new standards for heaviness that – unfortunately for the band – were eclipsed in fairly short order." ( AllMusic) " Metal On Metal helped create thrash and speed metal not so much through vicious aggression, but rather through its endearingly over the top excitement.
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