Probably the most underrated rock and metal band of all time. Incredibly persistent, consistent, a band that should be EASILY in the rock n roll hall of fame! Also hugely influential and cited as an influence by basically a whos who of heavy metal of the 80s, 90s, 00s and beyond

Used to know Tim 'Nibbs' Carter a long, long time ago. Great bass player and down to Earth guy. He certainly helped to revitalise Saxon. The new album - Hell, Fire & Damnation - is great.

One of the greatest bands in history.

This band has so much quality material. It's sad they never got the attention they deserved.

Refreshing to hear someone with the honesty to point out the high points of their mid 80s output. Rare over here(UK). Now popular again due to reversion to dirty old Brit metal. The big teasers from Barnsley will always be special.

Saxon from 1992 - onwards has been one of the most constant and awesome metal bands! Everything from Solid Ball Of Rock right up to Thunderbolt kicks ass!

Been a fan since ‘84. I absolutely agree - they’ve been overlooked for the most part for many many years. Consistently great, and ALWAYS doing it for their fans. Much love..

I have been a huge New Wave Of British Heavy Metal fan since I was a little kid, but some how I never heard of Saxon until my early 20's when I saw many of their videos when VH1 Classics channel came out and had a show called Metalmania. I fell in love with their music immediately. I saw videos like Strong Arm Of The Law, Dallas 1 P.M. , The Power And The Glory, And The Bands Played on, Strangers In The Night, Ride Like The Wind, and my all time favorite Saxon song to this day Princess Of The Night. I will never understand how this band never got the recognition that Judas Priest and Iron Maiden got throughout all these years. Saxon are still releasing great music and should have been much much bigger. They are a great live band even to this day. One of my other favorite songs has always been Broken Heroes.

59 and still rockin to Saxon! Was a fan back in 1980 when the NWOBHM hit. Living in Iowa, me and my friends bought all those albums from Maiden, Priest, Motorhead, Def Leppard, 79,80,81. But, MY favorite band was SAXON with those trio of 3 classic Metal albums. Great songs, Great riffs. I Always followed them thru the years, listened to each release. Finally got to see them live in 2017, front row in Atlanta.

Battering Ram is a great album!

SAXON IS ALL OF MY LIFE 40 YEARS WITH ME 🎸🔥🎸

Saxon is awesome, they’re just as good as other metal bands such as Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Motorhead, Angel Witch, Venom, Satan, and many others. Great review on an awesome heavy metal band, man, keep it up and such, kek-kek:).

Funny story...my old friend Ray had gotten to the record store before me and grabbed the two "better" albums of Power and the Glory and Destiny but he was kind enough to leave me the "lesser" album of Denim and Leather. Which is still my favorite album by Saxon with Play It Loud my favorite song ever by them. Thank you for doing this and showing these guys much deserved respect. Also btw my mom who is 70 absolutely loves the song Solid Ball Of Rock.

Followed them since-79, still as awesome!

Hey just checked up on something you missed. Actor Harry Shearer (who does voices on The Simpsons by the way) bassed his "Spinal Tap" character Derek Smalls on original Saxon bassist Steve Dawson.

Credit to Sir Hoovington for the Saxon Heavy Metal Parking Lot

I enjoyed this retrospective very much I'm a big fan of Saxon I would love to see you do more retrospective videos on other NWOBHM bands like Angel Witch , Diamond Head , Samson , Tank etc 🤘

Hey you going to see Judas Priest this spring? Saxon is supporting! I'm going be in NWOBHM heaven!!!!

Use to be a huge fan. Been to multiple Saxon concerts. Best one was in a small hall in Cologne where they started their European tour. Still having tracks on my SD card in the truck. Really love what you did here for them.

Finally, someone who stands up for "Crusader" I wore that cassette out back in the 80s and to this day, it remains my favorite from Saxon. There are NO bad Saxon albums and their monster discography is second to none. The band is still blasting out metal anthems and absolutely destroy playing live. "Give us the stage, turn on the lights, fire up the sound: We'll rock the nations!!!"

Priest had Tom Allom (produced all albums from 80 till 88) , Maiden had Martin Birch (81 till 92). In case of Saxon, they had no permanent producer. Maybe that's the reason why their rise found an end in the middle of the 80s.

Denim 'n; Leather, TREMENDOUS album, me Mam bought it me for Christmas as I remember. These lads are responsible for some great music songs that are as iconic as any Maiden, Motorhead, Priest or DC. Great band then Amazing band now!!

Saw saxon in March saw tygers of pan tang last Thursday wanted to learn more about both bands and it turns out everyone brings them up in the same context so cool finding out about all this british heavy metal history

You know who else works their ass off and doesn't get nearly as much attention as they deserve? You

Best Albums: Metalhead, Lion Heart, Call to Arms, Unleash the Beast, Inner Sanctum, Power and Glory.

Another great retrospective! one thing... the lunar module from the Apollo Moon landing was called "the Eagle". When it landed on the moon they said "the eagle has landed" so you were correct in your interpretation... Thanks again for taking the time....

Blues players used to use beer bottlenecks as slides. Hence the name bottleneck. You can hear it on the song.

A sincere thank you for all these vids. I got the Dogs... album in the mid 90s from my older bro who didn't want it. I remember the cover being so freaking beautiful and awesome, but I thought the music was too "fashionable" or light way back then. Today I love all this shit. Hails.

Didn’t realise Saxon had a warhammer cover in 1992

Hey, man, good show. Nice effort! Unfortunately, your most resonate and truthful line within is... "I'm Gay, I like AOR music" Hey, you said It... Buy seriously, great show and thanks, in general, for shining a light on SAXON! Marc ⚡😎 p.s. re: BOTTLE NECK = C'mon, man, bottleneck guitar. Acoustic blues... slide w/a bottle..neck.

This band deserves so so much credit they are the 3rd spot in the nwobhm , in my humble opinion They put like five albums very good , continuously or tie with motorhead for that spot

MI. PRIMERA. BANDA. 🤘😃. DE. ROCK. CON. 13. AÑOS. 💥✨🔥 S A X O N. FOR. EVER. ⚡⚡💥✨💥🔥🔥🔥🔥🌀🌀🌀

56 and listened to Saxon today in the gym 👍

Absolutely loved this. Appreciate the passion for all eras. Saxon are the greatest classic metal band still going, ever since Dio left us.

Nice. I'm definitely gonna start diving Into Saxon I think I found my motivation to pick up and axe and jam again thanks great retrospective

Saw mighty SAXON! For free! Thanks to two school teachers who worked as safety personell at stockholm ice stadium in 85 whole class was invited wow! I stood and rocked out so much! On the right side of the balcony so my left leg went thru the bench😂 awesome memory! The crusader tour! Swords and a castle on the stage with these awesome rockers! Oh! Yeah! 10/10 always! Pure GOLD!

Lionheart and Unleash the Beast are amazing

"Innocence is no excuse" from 85 is better than this review shows. A little bit overproduced, but filled with great songs.

Finally some decent Saxon homage at last damn.

Binge watching a bunch of your retrospectives. You and Razorfist are truly doing the work of the gods.

Thanks for this very good documentary about the GREAT SAXON! It´s sad they are still underrated compared to bands like Iron Maiden or Motörhead. I remember when i first heard Denim& Leather, Wheels of Steel etc. on cheap Saxon compilation CD back in middle 90´s. I remember when bought those classic 2nd hand LPs at record stores for very cheap like 1-2 euro back then, it was cheap but it was QUALITY! Almost everybody laughted at classic Metal Music back in late 90´s and beginning of 2000´s there was about 100-150 metal heads at Saxon gig, it was kind of sad situation. Thanks Metal God, things have changed to better and Saxon can play big festival like Wacken with thousands of people! JUST REMEMBER, NEVER SURRENDER !!!

Awesome Discography! Have listened to every album !

They are one Hell of a guilty pleasure!

No... they don't put the gods of metal Judas Priest and the great Iron Maiden to shame. Those three bands (Saxon, JP, Iron Maiden) along with Black Sabbath, UFO, and Thin Lizzy are the best rocking kick-ass bands.

Your narration is fantastic. I hope you'll make many docs like this. Very entertaining.

Crusader is their best effort the entire album. I have no idea what metal archives is I only heard bout it on this channel

Saxon are from my town

The band Saxon is a very entertaining band and friendly too.

First time I saw them was on “ the power and the glory “ tour 83 became a huge fan

Bro thanks for all the great metal breakdowns they really help add to my collection on metal

Great vid

one of the most consistent and still one of the greatest britain 🇬🇧 metal export

True very underated band never got there due crusaders is up there with number of the Beast in my eye's.

Love this retrospective and absolutely love Wheels Of Steel, LAOTL, and Denim & Leather, but I have to say the downturn seemed to start with Power and the Glory. To me, although it sounded much like the previous 3 albums, it seemed to have a little less drive and energy. Losing Peter Gil all of a sudden probably didn’t help matters. After the next 2 albums came Rock The Nations, and I think they were trying hard to re-gain some old fan base with that one because a few of the songs have the old vibe to them, but by then many fans had gave up. Later on in 1991 they delivered Solid Ball Of Rock and have never looked back! Every album since has been a winner in it’s own way including their latest masterpiece Thunderbolt!

For Me , The BEST SAXON Albums Are The Following : " Wheels Of Steel " / " Strong Arm Of The Law " / " Denim And Leather " / " The Eagle Has Landed "

Whether you like them or not gotta give them credit for keeping going on

My favorite band. Thank you for doing this.

Wow this band as your video goes on there songs get better and better, where have I been

Amazing band. Thanks for uploading this

I think I’ll check out Wheels of Steel!

nice vid

Saxon are awesome

The best banda of world for me Saxon its Saxon and more nofhing!!

Totally agree with you in every aspect. I’m sure the problem (at that time) with Crusader was the sound. Crusader sounds a lot cheap than other competitors bands of that time. if Crusader sounded like “innocence” it could been a very successful album. By the way Saxon is my favorite band so far

I need to buy you a beer... great job.

These guys were such a great band live

Black Sabbath Judas Priest Iron Maiden Saxon & UFO Are The Best British Bands Period But Still Enjoy Many Other NWOBHM & Other British Heavy Metal/Hard Rock Bands Long Live Heavy Metal 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

The Eagle Has Landed = First Moon Landing.

Always best to vent that Iron Maiden jealousy in the opening monologue 😂

Been a fan of 'Solid Ball of Rock' for 20 years since I was a snot-nosed kid, but only found out I got the lyrics to the title rack wrong 5 years ago. You heard "Set my people free!"...I heard "Suck my feet for free" (which my teenage self thought was a kick-ass random put down). Cheers for the pointers on the next Saxon albums I need to hear. PS, that clip of them talking to Tommy Vance (RIP) where he's giving away copies of 'Metalhead'...I remember seeing that live on the Friday Night Rock Show. Good times

Saxon is one of my all time favorite bands... BUT...here's the crazy thing. I prefer Iron Maiden's older stuff to their newer stuff. While Saxon though? I prefer their newer stuff to their older stuff.

Don't worry is in the key of Dm, i.e. Dead or Alive by Bon Jovi. Thats the "cowboy" sound, or country sound you are referring to.

My first Saxon album was Greatest Hits Live from 1990 and until this day is one of my favorite live albums of all time. I agree with the “pentalogy” their best albums by far my favorites “Power and the Glory” and “Crusader”🤟

Crusader is still one of my favourite metal albums. I play it often.

Wheels of steel what the album that got me into rock, I only listened to instrumental stuff, Tomita, Vangelis, and then someone played me motor cycle man, and at last I have something in common with Lars. 😋😋

See them in '82

Man, I always thought It was a girl eating a soap bar in the Innocence album cover and everyone laughed at me 😂

Well done with this! \M/

Sunday Dallas, Texas

You forgot to mention Hungry Years. The ultimate banger on Strong Arm Of The Law

I got into saxon thanks to 2 live albums I found in a 2nd hand store.

stoked that you got the metal voice on here. super underrated channel.

My fav band since 1980. Why because I like more songs by them then any other band. N I think they get better n better looking forward to there new album carpe diem

Great material, i see that you used some footage from the Pete Gill era 1979 - 1981. I saw some such footage before. I wonder where you took this from and if this also could be shared on KZfaq. Thanks for your time !!!

Coming home(bottleneck version) is called that because he uses a bottle neck to play the slide on that song

DOPE

'Nuff reskept!

Their music sounds a whole lot more fitting for bikers as well.

I Forgot " Killing Ground " ( 2001 ) , " The Inner Sanctum " ( 2007 ) They Are Batallions Of Steel & The Play Rock'N'Roll !!!!

CRUSADER forever

The opening is like a mini heavy metal parking lot, LOL.

25:28 especially helter skelter which unfortunately fell into a demo.

Having been a fan of Saxon in the early 80s I do predictably rate that era the highest, not that long after I became an early thrash fan, never thought I would get back into Saxon after listening to some of there more promoted tracks after Crusader, the last album I bought. Then in more recent times I heard the track Sacrifice and totally loved that one ……… oh yeah bottlenecked as in using the neck of a bottle instead of fingers to play in a slide guitar style

Cool man! I'm so fucking tired of hearing about Iron Maiden when it comes to NWOBHM. There were SAXON, SATAN, ANGELWITCH, and many others too... Nice video man!

All hail the mighty SAXON!!!!!!!

But I Appreciate Albums Like " Solid Ball Of Rock " (1991 ) , " Dogs Of War " (1995) , " Unleash The Beast " (1997 ) " MetalHead " (1999) " LionHeart " ( 2004) " Into The Labyrinth " ( 2006)

Jag Panzer were doing strong albums in the new millennium

Solid ball of Rock

SAXON is AMAZING!!!

A "bottkeneck" is another name for a guitar slide. Makes sense as this version features a lot of acoustic slide guitar.