POUNDING THE PAVEMENT
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POUNDING THE PAVEMENT
Pounding the Pavement is the seventeenth studio album by Canadian heavy metal band Anvil. It was released on January 19, 2018, through Steamhammer. - WIKIPEDIA
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BLABBERMOUTH.NET
is it's one of ANVIL's best albums in recent years.
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Angry Metal Guy
Jan 17, 2018 - Pounding the Pavement is far from an essential listen.
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METAL ASSAULT
Jan 10, 2018 - Yet another painfully mediocre and instantly forgettable album by the worst band Canada has ever produced.
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METAL WANI
'Pounding The Pavement' is a sat nav hating, smash your face up bating wild ride and the best installment to the Anvil catalogue in some time!
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LOUDER
Jan 2, 2018 - Canada’s metal survivors keep their cylinders fired up.
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Get Ready to Rock
Dec 18, 2017 - This album is well worth a listen.
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Heavy Music Headquarters
These guys have never taken themselves too seriously, and while the lyrics on Pounding the Pavement might make us roll our eyes, there’s no denying the band have written some of their strongest material musically in recent years.
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Decibel Geek
Jan 19, 2018 - if you didn’t really enjoy Anvil before, I don’t think this album will change that. For those that do, this is another blasting Anvil album to head bang to.
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Cryptic Rock
Jan 16, 2018 - Yes, that is the persistent and undaunted Anvil, still thrashing their time-wrought metal-craft into your audio system after all these years.
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My Global Mind
Pounding the Pavement is a raucous foray into your basic meat and potatoes high energy and high impact metal with moments of plodding doominess.
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MAXIMUM VOLUME MUSIC
Jan 7, 2018 - it is the music that will sustain them and keep the fans coming back.
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Hairband Heaven
Jan 13, 2018 - If you were a fan of Anvil going in then you will probably love this new album. If you’ve never given the band a listen before, or only know of them from the documentary “Anvil! The Story of Anvil” then Pounding the Pavement” is a good place to start.
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ALL MUSIC
is largely cut from the same cloth as its predecessor, pairing old-school Accept/Running Wild/Motörhead-inspired riffage with tonsil-shredding invocations of the power of rock & roll.
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Markus' Heavy Music Blog
Dec 17, 2017 - A metal collection without this longplayer isn't one.
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GHOST CULT
Jan 18, 2018 - is chock full of laid back Heavy Metal tunes.
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Riff Relevent
Jan 28, 2018 - Uneven albums like this one are likely to slow the process.
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SkullsnBones.com
Feb 9, 2018 - Anvil again prove themselves as alive and well four decades later with Pounding the Pavement. Unstoppable.
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OVERDRIVE
Jan 20, 2018 - it’s still a fairly good album all round.
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E.D. Blog
Despite their lack of commercial success, these guys have not relented in their passion for heavy metal and rock ‘n roll, and I commend them for that.
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METAL TEMPLE
Feb 23, 2018 - if you've always liked ANVIL, then you're going to LOVE this album. If you've never heard them before, then you're in for quite a treat.
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OUT BURN ONLINE
Sept 10, 2018 - it feels pretty laid-back, but then that is just Anvil doing their own thing, as always.
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Games, Brraaains & Head Banging Life
Jan 24, 2018 - It is just that even when the music is good, the lyrics are so drab and/or cheesy that it brings the good music down a notch or two.
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NEW NOISE
Jan 17, 2018 - At this point, it might be safe to say the appeal is wearing off.
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NOIZZ EATER
June 7, 2018 - it has good songs, it’s old-school, it’s 100% Anvil.
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National Rock Review
Oct 14, 2017 - the band have gone back to their roots and early material for inspiration.
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GavTheGothicChav
Feb 28, 2018 - Pounding the pavement or a pounding headache…you be the judge.
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MelodicRock.com
Their latest album Pounding The Pavement proves their impressive stamina: never before have Anvil sounded as diverse, determined and inspiring.
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hrh mag
Feb 10, 2018 - Pounding The Pavement isn’t on a par with its predecessor but if there was a cash reward for persistence then the Canadian survivors would be multi-millionaires.
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METAL RIOT
Jan 8, 2018 - In view of their impressive new album which brims over with inspiration, Anvil can look into the future with optimism.
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Uber Rock
Jan 11, 2018 - Musically, there also are a few small surprises, such as the swing jazz twist on closing track ‘Warming Up’ – but, then, as we said above, Anvil are Anvil (sic) and they basically can do what they want…
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The Gauntlet
You’ll be impressed the moment the album starts, especially if the first time you play it is in your car.
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STAIKNOIZE
Its topical continuity includes social awareness, historic pride, sense of humor, all things that their fans have come to expect from a full-bodied, well rounded, heavy metal through and through Anvil album.
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The Metal Channel
Feb 13, 2018 - The song writing on the Pavement is superb. Reminiscent of legendary acts like Motörhead, you don’t appreciate the genius until you’ve heard it multiple times.
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dead rhetoric
Jan 2, 2018 - There are a couple of worthwhile instrumental sequences during “World of Tomorrow” that prove Lips and Robb still deliver the goods – you just wish they would consider a little more quality control in 2017 to up the song quotient in favor of those classic, little to no filler efforts.
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The Mighty Decibel
Feb 13, 2018 - not as good as Hope In Hell, but slightly superior to the other post-Forged In Fire output.
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KNAC.com Pure Rock
Feb 23, 2018 - The code of the road may not always call for unforeseen potholes, but for ANVIL, it’s worth the long ride.
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The Grim Tower
April 9, 2018 - Anvil’s Pounding The Pavement seems to continue an oncoming trend of killer traditional heavy metal.
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John Tucker online
is the band’s seventeenth studio call to arms and, given that their back catalogue is a mixed bag in terms of consistency, certainly one of their strongest outings to date.
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