NEW UPCOMING ALBUM RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT!
New release from: SAXON – Hell, Fire And Damnation (January 19, 2024)
Heavy Metal heroes, Saxon have unveiled details surrounding a brand new studio album. Hell, Fire And Damnation is expected on January 19, 2024. Here’s more information as originally reported on Blabbermouth (SAXON Announces New Album Hell, Fire And Damnation) with minor edits.
When internationally renowned actor Brian Blessed OBE delivers a proclamation for opening track “The Prophecy”, expectations are automatically high for SAXON‘s latest album. Have no fear and make no mistake, SAXON meet and exceed them on their 24th studio album, Hell, Fire And Damnation, set for release January 19, 2024 via Silver Lining Music.
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-and-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 Byford, with Sneap mixing and mastering, Hell, Fire And Damnation strides the perfect line between confident, current power, and gloriously irreverent flexing of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal muscle which SAXON co-created.
“I think this album’s one of the best he’s done sound-wise, and he’s done a lot of albums,” Biff declares. “It has a really raw, vibrant sound… if you compress the total time making this album, it was four weeks tops… you can hear everything brilliantly, nothing’s overcomplicated, nothing’s over-compressed. The guitar sounds are fucking immense, they’re just great, raw guitar sounds. And we haven’t done a lot of overdubbing on there, it’s just playing. I really, really like it.”
The cover art was created by Péter Sallai
Hell, Fire And Damnation track listing:
01. The Prophecy
02. Hell, Fire And Damnation
03. Madame Guillotine
04. Fire And Steel
05. There’s Something In Roswell
06. Kubla Khan And The Merchant Of Venice
07. Pirates Of The Airwaves
08. 1066
09. Witches Of Salem
10. Super Charger
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