Pink Anvil was a duo consisting of former members of the group Ministry

Ministry (band)

Ministry is an American industrial metal band founded by lead singer Al Jourgensen in 1981. Originally a synthpop outfit, Ministry changed its style to industrial metal in the late 1980s. Ministry found mainstream success in the early 1990s with its most successful album Psalm 69: The Way to...

 - Paul Barker

Paul Barker

Paul Barker , also referred to as Hermes Pan, is the former bass guitarist, producer and engineer with the industrial metal band Ministry from 1986 to 2004...

 and Max Brody

Max Brody

Max Brody , is an American musician based outside of Austin, TX, best known as the one-time percussionist/saxophonist for the hard rock band Ministry.- Biography :...

.

The pair formed during a time of personal turmoil in Ministry, which due to drug abuse and record label disagreements nearly ended the group. Upon an invitation from one Dave Palmer

Dave Palmer (American keyboardist)

Dave Palmer is an American session keyboardist native to Texas and living in Studio City, California. Palmer has toured, performed, or recorded with Air, Fiona Apple, Seal, Chris Isaak, Joe Henry, Bobby Previte, Wayne Horvitz, Ponga, Critters Buggin, MC 900 Foot Jesus, Aimee Mann, Solomon Burke,...

 (of the jazz group Earl Harvin Trio

Earl Harvin

Earl Harvin is a drummer, percussionist and multi-instrumentalist from the New York area who has lived in Dallas, Texas and Los Angeles and is now residing in Berlin, Germany....

), they performed an experimental set at a small rave

Rave

Rave, rave dance, and rave party are parties that originated mostly from acid house parties, which featured fast-paced electronic music and light shows. At these parties people dance and socialize to dance music played by disc jockeys and occasionally live performers...

 in Austin, TX on Halloween

Halloween

Hallowe'en , also known as Halloween or All Hallows' Eve, is a yearly holiday observed around the world on October 31, the night before All Saints' Day...

, 2001. The recorded set was later released as Halloween Party

Halloween Party (album)

Halloween Party is an album by Pink Anvil, released in 2003 by Ipecac Recordings.-Track listing:All tracks written by Pink Anvil.# "Beginning" – 2:16# "Rubber Suit" – 4:01# "'Cause I Told You So" – 4:40# "Desert" – 6:30# "Adagio in Cb" – 3:57...

on Ipecac Recordings in 2003.

Pink Anvil made another live appearance again, this time at the yearly New Years Eve Ipecac bash in San Francisco, CA

San Francisco, California

San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...

 at Great American Music Hall

Great American Music Hall

The Great American Music Hall is a concert hall in San Francisco, California. It is located on O'Farrell Street in the Tenderloin neighborhood on the same block as the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theater...

. This show was also recorded, but has yet to be released.

Max Brody has stated that plans for a third album were slightly recorded, though not completed as Barker had moved to Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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 in 2004. It is unknown if either of the two recordings will see the light of day.

Discography

• Halloween Party
  Halloween Party (album)
  Halloween Party is an album by Pink Anvil, released in 2003 by Ipecac Recordings.-Track listing:All tracks written by Pink Anvil.# "Beginning" – 2:16# "Rubber Suit" – 4:01# "'Cause I Told You So" – 4:40# "Desert" – 6:30# "Adagio in Cb" – 3:57...
  
  (2003, Ipecac)
• New Years Eve Party (unreleased, Stacked)