Hard 'N' Heavy [Import]

Anvil | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 10, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Attic
• ASIN: B00007M01F
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #54,932 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. School Love

2. AC/DC

3. At the Apartment

4. I Want You Both (With Me)

5. Bedroom Game

6. Oooh Baby

7. Paint It Black

8. Oh Jane

9. Hot Child

10. Bondage

Editorial Reviews

CD reissue of this album from the Canadian Speed Metal band, originally released in 1982. The band has maintained a respectable underground following for nearly three decades, but began to experience well-deserved commercial success when a documentary on the band became a sensation in 2009. Attic.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Canadian Metal Gods Spectacular Debut Album, November 1, 2009

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British Thunder 13 "British Thunder 13" (Enola, PA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Hard 'N' Heavy (Audio CD)

Recorded in late 1980, "Hard 'N' Heavy" became the first album to be released by four young Canadian lads calling themselves Anvil. All the songs on this CD are very well put together. The band as a whole displays incredible talent throughout this CD. Reiner's drum playing is right there with the best that Metal has to offer, and the guitar and vocals performed by Lips are awesome. The songs are straight, in-your-face heavy metal. The lyrics are largely sexually driven, but not to a point that they are obscene by 21st century standards. The band does cover the Rolling Stones hit "Paint It Black", and while I admire the band for tackling such an iconic rock classic, I found it to be the weakest song on the CD. "Oh Jane" is the band's first attempt at a heavy metal ballad (of sorts), and they pull it off quite well, never once going too soft, and sticking with the extra-heavy, extra-loud core ingredients that make up this album.

"Hard 'N' Heavy" laid the foundation for Anvil to accellerate onto the early 1980's heavy metal mega-highway that encompassed bands like Metallica, Quiet Riot, and Iron Maiden. The band followed up this album with "Metal On Metal", which became the band's true classic album, containing many of the groups more sought after songs.

You won't be disappointed with this CD. It's a great disc to toss in, crank up, and rock out to. Though many of Anvil's quintessential songs were spawned from their second album, "Hard 'N' Heavy" remains as the band's bunker-busting debut album that is sure to please any heavy metal fan the world over.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hard n Heavy, October 17, 2009

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Gitters (Allendale, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hard 'N' Heavy (Audio CD)

A debut album from the Candian band "Anvil". I purchased this after listening to "Metal on Metal". Another great album, Robb Reiner's a monster on the drums. I enjoyed the cover of "Paint it Black", kind of a weird choice, but at least they played it in their own style instead doing a carbon copy remake. If you've purchased other Anvil albums and enjoyed them, pick up Hard n Heavy too.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nuge-a-delic, June 20, 2008

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Woodrow (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hard 'N' Heavy (Audio CD)

I love Anvil. This album isn't really metal, more hard rock. Tons of gonzoid Nugent style solos. Tons of energy. Wait til you see the upcoming Anvil documentary (ANVIL! The story of Anvil). It's incredible, nothing like you're expecting.

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