Saxon

Saxon, the British N.W.O.B.H.M. icons, are back with a new studio album, "Gods Of Thunder". Drawing inspiration from historical events, ancient mythology, horror and fantasy tales, and even pagan rituals, the record will drop on January…

Acts: Judas Priest / Saxon / Uriah HeepDate: Monday, 1 April 2024 (18:00–23:00)Venue: Vienna (Wien) / Wiener Stadthalle - Halle D / Austria The big day had finally come! A celebration for every lover of steel, leather, burning motor…

Label: Silver LiningRelease date: 19. 1. 2024Production: Andy Sneap & Biff ByfordAlbum length: 42.23 minGenre: N.W.O.B.H.M. / Heavy MetalRating: 8.5/10 “Hell, Fire and Damnation” kicks off a new chapter for the…

Label: Silver Lining MusicRelease date: March 24, 2023Production: Biff, Seb Byford & Jacky LehmannCompilation length:Genre: Heavy Metal / N.W.O.B.H.M. Rating: 9.0/10 Saxon! Is there anything left to say about this band that…

Label: Silver Lining Music Release date: February 4, 2022 Production: Andy Sneap & Biff Byford Album length: 44.19 min Genre: Heavy Metal / N. W. O. B. H. M. Rating: 9.0/10 Saxon! A band that has survived everything. Literally every…

Label: Silver Lining Music/Militia GuardRelease date: 19. 3. 2021Production: Biff ByfordGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 8.0/10 Saxon. Unbelievable. The older they get, the more stubborn and defiant they become. It's genuinely odd that…

For Saxon, 1980 was the most important year of the band's career. That February, they dropped the album »Wheels of Steel« and took the torch from a freshly born phalanx of bands serving up, for the time, a combination of insanely fast and…

" Back then, you'd have been hard-pressed to find an album that captured the wild, untamed spirit of a brand-new genre's big adventure better than "Wheels Of Steel". It's regarded as the central musical achievement that founded the…

" Fans of Biff Byford's iron voice and Saxon's music in general will be thrilled once again. That's the fundamental takeaway, along with the fact that this is, all in all, a very good new album, backed by a revered vocalist who long ago…

"Another smooth, loud landing for the legends of metal!"

Unbelievable! Instead of staying home to babysit their grandkids, they keep on recording new studio albums. In short: »Thunderbolt« is packed with orthodox Saxon nomenclature.

Location: Balingen / Messegelände / GermanyDate: Thursday, 13.07.2017 The nineteenth Bang Your Head festival is here, and with it a new RockLine expedition to Balingen, Germany. One of Europe's most important summer festivals, known…

The nineteenth Bang Your Head festival has arrived, and with it a new RockLine expedition to Balingen, Germany. It's one of Europe's most important summer festivals. It prides itself on an always colorful mixed bag of mostly classic heavy…

In great spirits, Saxon 'conquered' Kino Šiška with ease and 'riddled' it with a hefty dose of their most beloved classics. Even on their 40th anniversary, the NWOBHM champions are still a one-of-a-kind live attraction.

"In Munich, Motörhead announced two back-to-back dates at the same venue. Zenith Halle. Both nights sold out completely. In advance."

Lemmy knows no retreat. And so Motörhead set off on the German-Scandinavian leg of their new European tour as if there were no reservations at all, completely carefree, in tune with their daily routine. Professionally speaking, that's…

»Battering Ram« is the band's studio creative constant! A true Saxon album from head to toe. No more, no less.

Yes, there are festivals with bigger reputations, better lineups, fatter budgets and plenty of other things Metaldays doesn't have, but there's only one Metaldays, and coming back to Tolmin every year feels like coming home. The year flew…

Yes, there are festivals with bigger reputations, better lineups, bigger budgets and plenty more that Metaldays doesn't have, but there's only one Metaldays, and coming back to Tolmin every year feels like coming home - Hell Sweet Hell!

Location: Unterpremstätten (Graz) / Schwarzlsee / AustriaDate: 02.08.2014 After a scorching rock Friday that left plenty of people with rosy memories (and sunburns) on their skin, Saturday promised an even hotter metal day. Already…

If Friday at Seerock was all about unwinding with some rock'n'roll, Saturday started bombarding everyone's ears with full metal force just after noon.

Saxon went about refreshing the material masterfully, just as is expected and demanded of them. The compilation is a must for every untamed Saxon fan and, as a harmonious musical experiment, an extremely bold enrichment of the rich Saxon…

Performing: Saxon, Lordi, Pretty Maids, Stratovarius, Masterplan, Entombed, Lake of Tears, H.E.A.T., Die Apokalyptischen Reiter (hall), Onslaught (hall), Artillery, Dream Evil, Fleshcrawl (hall), Exumed (hall), Crazy Lixx, Wanted Inc.…

In the spot Saxon found themselves in that night - a band with tremendous mileage, experience and a battle-tested game plan that lets them hold their own on any stage in the world - victory was there for the taking.

With their third visit in four years, the legendary Saxon laid Ljubljana on the altar of heavy metal.

The 20th studio album from the legendary band. Another document of the infallibility of a one-of-a-kind metal sermon. A hell of a heavy record, but not the heaviest of Saxon's career. Bringing in Andy Sneap as producer is the original sin…

A document you could just as well call "The Eagle Has Landed pt. IV", and in its combined DVD/2CD edition it's a must for every Saxon fan, as well as holy communion for every freshly fired-up metal newcomer.

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: Rockhouse / Salzburg / AustriaConcert date: 19.11.2011Attendance: 550Ticket price: 30,00€ No sleep for Saxon. No sleep for their fans. It's been 32 years since their debut "Saxon"…

Author: Urban BoltaPhotos: Urban Bolta Location: Sölvesborg / SwedenConcert date: June 15, 2011Attendance: 33,000Ticket price: €270 (4-day ticket) One look at the clear Thursday sky promised a great festival day. We'd picked up a few new…

A welcome shake-up of the "rut" of the last three albums! The album will especially please those of you who glorify the band's nineties legacy. More daring and more directness in classic metal rhetoric!

Author: Rok KlemšePhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Ljubljana / Kino Šiška / SloveniaConcert date: 29.05.2011Attendance: 550Ticket price: 22,00€ / 25,00€ After two years, the legendary British heavy metal outfit Saxon came back to…

Author: Urban BoltaPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Roncade (Treviso) / New Age / ItalyConcert date: 23.05.2011Attendance: 350Ticket price: €30.00 Another year has rolled around and with it a new tour. Saxon, the legendary British heavy…

Without exaggeration, Wheels of steel could be counted among the famous trilogy of records that firmly staked out the genre known as NWOBHM back in 1980.

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Volksbank Messehalle / Balingen / GermanyConcert date: July 15, 2010Attendance: 2Ticket price: €25.00 (presale) / €30.00 (day of show) Another year had rolled around, and the sacred…

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: Theaterfabrik / Munich / GermanyConcert date: 14.03.2010Attendance: 1100Ticket price: €32.00 Saxon are Saxon, plain and simple. Their iron-clad eighties repertoire is rich and huge.…

Innocence is by no means a softer album than earlier Saxon releases — it's sharp as a razor. Above all, it's a record of new dimensions, with an energy that flows in very different directions compared to Crusader.

A short but punchy chat with Biff Byford, frontman and singer of the legendary "new wave of British heavy metal" veterans Saxon, right before the band's gig in Zagreb!

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: Boogaloo / Zagreb / CroatiaConcert date: February 21, 2009Attendance: 1,500Ticket price: 200.00 HRK Saxon and Iced Earth on a joint tour! For any true lover of heavy metal sounds,…

Author: Rok Klemše Venue: VPK Mediapark, LjubljanaConcert date: 19.02.2009Attendance: 900Ticket price: 30€ Over the last few years, metal has been going through a real renaissance, more than any other genre, probably even its second…

The quick follow-up to "The Inner Sanctum" (2007) doesn't carry the same metal consistency, but the band serves up more of their old-school rock flavor here, and once again it wins the listener over!

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: Zenith Halle / Munich / GermanyConcert date: December 7, 2008Attendance: 5Ticket price: €40.00 Motorhead traditionally hit German stages in December. As a rule, every year they also…

"What is there to add after the 10th consecutive Bang Your Head!!! festival in Balingen, Germany? Mission accomplished. The festival ran smoothly, with no delays. Apart from Hardcore Superstar canceling and Rob Halford's worn-out vocals,…

Author: Aleš Podbrežnik Concert date: 28.06.2008Attendance: 2806Ticket price: 15.000 AGE OF EVIL: 09.30-10.10 On day two my head was seriously heavy thanks to a healthy dose of alcoholic derivatives. I staggered onto the grounds a…

Location: Rockhouse / Salzburg / AustriaConcert date: 09.12.2007Attendance: 450Ticket price: 28,00€ / 30,00€ Learning that Gotthard had cancelled all their Italian shows in December 2007 because of singer Steve Lee's illness…

The new album from Saxon, surviving dinosaurs and champions from the N.W.O.B.H.M. days, who ever since "Solid Ball Of Rock" have sounded German, mostly thanks to a rawer production that was never typical of the Brits

The legend of the eagle taking off and landing is clearly far from over! The veterans who survived the N.W.O.B.H.M. days seem to cook up a new chapter in the saga of their beloved little eagle every decade of their existence. So now we've…

The band's comeback with "Solid Ball Of Rock" gave them wings, and the steel eagle took flight again in 1991. "Forever Free" was the logical next step on that road back, following the aforementioned "Solid Ball Of Rock"

As we know, Saxon started getting steadily heavier, album after album, with "Solid Ball Of Rock" (1991), while the flirting with the rock'n'roll feel that ran all over their records fr

Its predecessor "Destiny" was pretty syrupy. Of course, in 1986 Saxon caught the glam metal bug, the music trend of the day. After the more or less clichéd "Destiny" album, when critics, especially in their native Britain, literally…

How do you mix business with pleasure? The Byford/Quinn/Carter/Scarat/Randow lineup decided to release the old steel repertoire from the period between 1980 (the "Wheels Of Steel" record) and 1984 (the reco&#

Location: Zagreb, Tvornica KultureConcert date: 27.10.2004Attendance: 900Ticket price: 90,00 HRK What a tour! Packed with dates all over Italy, then Graz, Zagreb,… and, as always, no Slovenian stop this time either. At half past…

Venue: Salzburg (Austria), RockhouseConcert date: 03.04.2003Attendance: 650Ticket price: €24.00 (€24.00) I'm at the scene of the action, I no longer know what time it is, or where exactly I am, and in front of me is the…

Location: Munich (Germany), BabylonConcert date: 19.01.2003Attendance: 1000Ticket price: 25,50€ At 20:00 Wolf hit the stage. Swedes. Worshippers of NWOBHM in the old Anglo-Saxon school of Iron Maiden. The image alone says it all:…