Anvil have put in the work and soon fans will be able to reap the rewards. The veteran metallers are on their way back with their 17th studio album, Pounding the Pavement, which will be released Jan.

Call it bad luck, bad timing, bad promotion, bad dealings with the business end of the music business or bad what-have-you, but Anvil, a seminal Canadian metal band, did not make a huge metallic ...