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Saxon

Великобритания

Heavy Metal
Hard 'n' Heavy

http://www.saxon747.com
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18 июл 2025 :	BIFF BYFORD Has 'Quite A Lot Of Ideas' For SAXON's Next Album; September/October 2026 Release Expected
1 июл 2025 :
10 июн 2025 :	SAXON Shares 'Heavy Metal Thunder' Performance Video From Upcoming 'Eagles Over Hellfest' Live Album
29 май 2025 :	SAXON To Release 'Eagles Over Hellfest' Live Album In June
18 май 2025 :	BIFF BYFORD On SAXON's Continued Relevance: 'You Have To Keep Trying To Write Great Songs'
19 апр 2025 :	BRIAN TATLER Reflects On His First Two Years As A Member Of SAXON: 'It's Been Fantastic'
15 апр 2025 :
14 апр 2025 :	SAXON's BIFF BYFORD: PAUL QUINN Is 'Still Sending Ideas' For New Songs
18 мар 2025 :
10 мар 2025 :	Watch: SAXON Joined By DORO PESCH For 'Denim And Leather' Performance In Düsseldorf
5 мар 2025 :	SAXON's BIFF BYFORD: 'It's Good That People Like METALLICA Say That We Influenced Them'
15 фев 2025 :	BIFF BYFORD: New SAXON Album To Arrive In Late 2026
1 фев 2025 :	SAXON Shares Music Video For '1066' Song From 'Hell, Fire And Damnation' Album
17 дек 2024 :	SAXON Debut Official Lyric Video For "Pirates Of The Airways"; GRAND SLAM To Join Band On European Tour
2 дек 2024 :	SAXON's BIFF BYFORD On Touring With MOTÖRHEAD In 1979: 'It Was A Big Eye Opener'
7 окт 2024 :	SAXON Shares Music Video For 'Fire And Steel' From 'Hell, Fire And Damnation' Album
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1 июн 2024 :	SAXON - Music On Vinyl Releases Lionheart Album On Limited Edition Gold Vinyl
31 май 2024 :	SAXON's BIFF BYFORD Offers Advice To Young Bands: 'It's All About Writing Songs'
13 май 2024 :	See Front-Row Video Of SAXON's Entire Glenside, Pennsylvania Concert During 'Hell, Fire & Chaos' Tour
24 апр 2024 :	SAXON Premier Lyric Video For New Single "Witches Of Salem"
12 апр 2024 :	Former SAXON Bassist STEVE DAWSON Sentenced To Six Years In Jail For Child Sex Offences
28 мар 2024 :	BIFF BYFORD Doesn't Think SAXON Will Ever Use Artificial Intelligence During Songwriting Process
12 мар 2024 :	SAXON Drummer NIGEL GLOCKLER Looks Back On Touring With MÖTLEY CRÜE In The '80s - "They Were Doing A Lot Of Partying, And Sometimes We Were Seeing The Polaroids From The Night Before" (Video)

15 окт 2015

SAXON: 'Battering Ram' Electronic Press Kit Available

An Electronic Press Kit (EPK) for "Battering Ram", the 21st studio album from British heavy metal legends SAXON, is available below. The CD will be released on October 30 in North America via UDR Music.

On "Battering Ram" — with Biff Byford singing as well as he ever has, Paul Quinn and Doug Scarratt making full use of the term "shredding" with their guitars and the lock-steady rhythm of Nibbs Carter's bass and Nigel Glockler's drums — the future and the past crash together in an ear-scintillatingly engaging, raucous, melodic-yet-classically heavy ten-song collection which will instantly be hailed as a SAXON classic. The title track, with its delectable twin guitar assault heralding the album's commencement, gives the listener an instant crack around the chops, whilst traditionalists will be delighted to hear such a perfect marriage of old, classic SAXON with the newer, fresher invective in such riff-fronted fare as "Destroyer" and "Stand Your Ground", but there are still moments of space and exploration which fans will love.

"This one's a natural progression from 'Sacrifice'," says Byford, "There's a bit less rock 'n' roll and a bit more 'heavy' on it. We wanted to keep focused on a style rather than moving around too much."

Produced by Andy Sneap (MEGADETH, TESTAMENT, EXODUS, ACCEPT) at his Backstage Recording Studios in rural Derbyshire, SAXON were able to hone in and whittle down any excess, finding the sonic space and balance to let "Battering Ram"'s riffs and melodies get the necessary space to scream front and center, Sneap bringing a crispness to the sound which evokes memories of the early '80s without for one moment sounding dated.

"Yes, Andy has been in charge of everything with this album, I keep on overview of it all, but he's done a great job and we're both pleased with the results. We have a great partnership," adds Byford.

Lyrically, "Battering Ram" covers a variety of social situations, like the screaming fans who rage at the gig barriers ("Battering Ram") or engaging in some good old fashioned myth ("The Devil's Footprint" — a 200-year-old tale of people waking up in winter snowfall to see unexplained hoof prints which they followed, looking for an answer in vain).

"When I'm writing lyrics I like to switch back and forth between complex things, reality and rock'n'roll," says Byford, "I thought the whole folklore behind 'The Devil's Footprint' made it great material for a metal song, being that it's both historic and mythical.

"With 'Queen of Hearts', I wanted to write something around Lewis Carroll's 'Alice In Wonderland', and it's about the chess game that happens in the story. I wanted it to have prog-feeling in the way of its ambiance and mood. Then you have songs like 'Destroyer' and 'Hard And Fast' which are '80s-inspired songs with that modern slant on it. I'm a big fan of Marvel comics, and I wanted to write a song around the character Destroyer, and with 'Hard and Fast', it's, as the title suggests, about driving fast! I do like to tie the lyric into the song, so if it's going to be a song about driving fast, well, it has to be a fast, hard song!"

There is also the album's closing cut, haunting, gripping, melancholic tale of the First World War, "The Kingdom Of The Cross", where a poem unfurls the feelings and horrors which comprised this most brutal of global conflicts. "This year is the centenary of the end of the First World War. Nigel had a piece of music which he played on a synthesizer for a couple of years that I really liked. We had an actor (and singer), David Bower from the band HELL, read the poem and I sang the choruses. I didn't want it to be typical SAXON, so it is just keyboards, bass, me and Dave."

The official video for the CD's title track can be seen below. In this no-nonsense, sharp clip, Biff and the boys are captured at Backstage Studios in Derbyshire, U.K, throwing down a thunderous performance. "Battering Ram" is available for pre-order now via iTunes, with "Battering Ram" as the instant grat track. Various "Battering Ram" formats include CD in ecolbook, 180-gram vinyl, limited edition boxset (containing CD, vinyl and a bonus CD with the band performance of their "Denim & Leather" tour "Saxon Over Sweden 2011", featuring 18 tracks).

"Battering Ram" track listing:

01. Battering Ram02. The Devil's Footprint03. Queen Of Hearts04. Destroyer05. Hard And Fast06. Eye Of The Storm07. Stand Your Ground08. Top Of The World09. To The End10. Kingdom Of The Cross

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26 окт 2015

Man0waR

Почему 30 октября, когда 16 вроде было?