Steve "Lips" Kudlow (lead vocals, lead guitar)
Dave Allison (rhythm guitar, vocals)
Robb Reiner (drums)
Ian Dickson (bass)
Sebastian Marino (lead guitar) [replaced Allison in 1989]
Mike Duncan (bass) [replaced Dickson in 1993]
Ivan Hurd (lead guitar) [replaced Marino in 1995]
Glenn "G5" Gyorffy (bass) [replaced Duncan in 1996]

Toronto's heavy metal band Anvil was formed in 1978 by Steve "Lips" Kudlow, Robb Reiner, Dave Allison, and Ian Dickson. They were known as Lips. They gigged predominantly around Toronto and released an independent album in 1981 called "Hard N' Heavy". Attic Records took notice and signed them, re-releasing Hard N' Heavy and dubbing it their "debut" album. The band toured constantly all over the world, opening in Canada for the likes of Iron Maiden, and released two more original studio albums for Attic, Metal On Metal (1982, the title track of which became Anvil's signature song) and Forged In Fire (1983). Attic dropped them in 1984 but released Backwaxed, a pseudo best-of, in 1985 that featured five "best of" tracks and five previously unreleased songs recorded at sessions for the three previous albums over the years.

The band was in record deal limbo for a few years, and then Metal Blade in the US came calling and signed them. Two studio albums followed - Strength Of Steel (1987) and Pound For Pound (1988) - and in 1989 they released a live album, Past And Present, that for most fans captured what Anvil was really all about: playing live. Shortly after the release of this album, the band experienced their first line-up change since their formation in 1978: Allison left the band and was replaced by the only American to join the band, Sebastian Marino.

Once again the band was without a deal but eventually Helix's manager William Seip and his label Maximum Records signed Anvil and released one album, 1991's 'Worth The Weight'. Anvil went another four years without a deal, this time getting signed to Tom Treumuth's Hypnotic Records in Canada; their first studio album since 1991 was 1996's 'Plugged In Permanent', and was followed quickly in 1997 with 'Absolutely No Alternative'.

In 2009, a documentary - Anvil! The Story of Anvil - chronicling the career of Anvil became a hot film festival 'must see' and re-ignited Anvil's career.




Singles
1981 School Love/Paint It Black (Polydor) [Japan-only release]
1983 Make it Up To You (remix)/Metal On Metal (Attic - UK) MET-002
1983 Make it Up To You/Metal On Metal (Attic) AT-288
1983 Forged In Fire (Attic) [one-song one-sided flexidisc included in UK magazine Kerrang!] ANVIL-1
1983 Hard Times, Fast Ladies/Make It Up To You (Liberation - AU) LS-985
1988 Blood on the Ice/[same] (Metal Blade)
2011 Juggernaut of Justice [DigiFile] (The End)
Albums
as LIPS
1981 Hard N' Heavy (Splash) SPLASH-007

as ANVIL
1981 Hard N' Heavy (Attic) LAT-1100
1982 Metal On Metal (Attic) LAT-1130
1983 Forged In Fire (Attic) LAT-1170
1985 Backwaxed (Viper) VPR-106
1987 Strength Of Steel (Metal Blade)
1988 Pound For Pound (Metal Blade) 73336-1
1989 Past And Present - Live In Concert (Metal Blade) 73412-2
1989 Molten Masterpieces (Attic) 1991 Worth The Weight (Maximum) 7323-11000-2
1995 Anthology Of... (Hypnotic)
1996 Plugged In Permanent (Hypnotic) HYPSD-1044
1997 Absolutely No Alternative (Hypnotic)
1998 Speed Of Sound (Hypnotic) HYP-1070
1999 Anthology (Metal Blade)
2001 Plenty Of Power (Hypnotic) HYP-1079
2002 Still Going Strong (Massacre)
2004 Back To Basics (Massacre)
2007 This Is Thirteen (VH1 Classics - US) VH1-00135
2011 Juggernaut of Justice (The End) TE202-2
Video
1983 Metal On Metal
1984 Metal On Metal (live in Japan)
1987 Mad Dog
1996 Doctor Kevorkian

Compilation Tracks
1982 "Bedroom Game" on 'Steel Crazy'
1983 "Motormount" on 'Metal Battle'
1984 "Metal On Metal" on 'Masters Of Metal: Volume II'
1988 "Concrete Jungle" on 'Best Of Metal Blade: Volume 3' (Metal Blade)
1990 "Motormount (live)" on 'Metallic Overdrive'
1997 "Show Me Your T**s" on 'Knuckletracks V'
1997 "Doctor Kevorkian" on 'Metalmeister: Volume 2 - A Metal Blade Compilation' (Metal Blade)