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Legendary NWOBHM icons Saxon have released their 24th (!!) album Hell, Fire and Damnation! For this new album they enlisted Brian Tatler of the equally legendary Diamond Head! I sot down with Brian to chat abut the new album, his journey, and playing Wheels of Steel instead of Am I Evil!
0:00 Introduction
1:14 Flying V Guitar
3:00 Album Release
8:25 Richie Faulkner effect
11:30 Playing Classics
14:01 Tour with Priest and Heep!
16:40 Learning from Andy Sneap
18:51 Diamond Head
21:15 Healthy & Happy
22:20 Outro
Videos used:
SAXON - Princess of the Night - Bloodstock 2021 • SAXON - Princess of th...
Saxon - Princess of the Night - Bloodstock Open Air Metal Festival 2021.
Title Track : Princess of the Night
Ronnie James Dio Stage
SAXON - There's Something In Roswell (Official Video) • SAXON - There's Someth...
The track is about the enigmatic events surrounding the 1947 crash of an assumed Army weather balloon in Roswell New Mexico, referred to as ‘The Roswell incident’. “It’s such a great story. It’s been around for years and years, and it’s just what the song says: there must be something in Roswell because there’s too much hoorah about it still”, lead singer and founder-member Biff Byford explains. “I like the tune as well, I think it harks back to ‘80s Saxon musically, a really good bridge between the classic ‘Dallas 1 PM’ era and ‘Saxon 2023.’”
Hell, Fire And Damnation is a superlative British Heavy Metal classic. Biff delivers his richest vocals in years, Nigel Glockler and Nibbs Carter on drums and bass respectively lay down the rhythmic law with bombastic power, and the guitars of Doug Scarratt and Brian Tatler are fresh and fiery, a perfect complement to each other, carrying an overall energy and fury which will have fans salivating.
Saxon - Hell, Fire And Damnation (Official Video) • Saxon - Hell, Fire And...
Hell, Fire And Damnation is an album which sees Saxon investigate all areas of history and mystery amidst ten of their most confident and thunderously powerful songs yet. Biff delivers his richest vocals in years, Nigel Glockler and Nibbs Carter on drums and bass respectively lay down the rhythmic law with bombastic power, and the guitars of Doug Scarratt and Brian Tatler are fresh and fiery, a perfect complement to each other, carrying an overall energy and fury which will have fans salivating. Musically, Saxon bring it all to the table. There's a furious tribute to actual heavy metal in the denim & leather coated super-sprint “Fire And Steel”, a wonderful nod to the NWOBHM's birth in the electric mid-pace “Pirates Of The Airwaves”, but maybe the true treasure amidst the jewels is “There's Something In Roswell”, with the sort of expansive groove and embrace which deserves arenas.
Produced by Andy Sneap (Judas Priest, Exodus, Accept and Priest guitarist) and Biff Byford AND mixed and mastered by Sneap. 2024 promises to be a great year for Saxon, with the European tour alongside Judas Priest and Uriah Heep kicking-off in the UK in March, plus the arrival of the heavy metal masterpiece Hell, Fire And Damnation.