Unfortunately too many bland, tired songs. A couple of good ones too, though---"Madame Guillotine" and "Kubla Khan And The Merchant Of Venice" I expect to replay plenty over the course of 2024.

Incredible how these legends still sound so energized after almost 50 years. Brian Tatler does a great job on the guitar while capturing the esence of the Saxon Sound. While Biffs voice shows It's age, he still manages to belt out these songs.
Standout Tracks: Madame Guillotine, Fire and Steel, Pirates of The Airwaves

This is a really good record to be honest! A couple of great standout tracks, and wasn’t vores at all! I must admit even though I have nothing bad to say about Saxon, their albums are actually quite hit or miss for me. But this one is right on!



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Good good, maybe their best after Dogs of war album, amazing riffs structure, more you listen it more you like it. This band sad they maybe have left 2 albums, what a band!

Madame Guillotine - LEMMY style ov singing = great tune

Yeah still rockin with a strong album

Hard to belive that those guys must pack something in excess of 300 years old together...

I did not expected I will enjoy it at all. I am not big on heavy metal, probably one and only hm album I ever truly liked was Killers it was so long ago and I was kid.

Surprisingly to me I quite enjoy this album. Maybe I am getting old...

Still best Roswell track belongs to Hypocrisy

Really liking this, solid heavy metal all the way. Even some great highlights in Kubla Khan and Madame Guillotine.

I thought It was pretty generic at first but it's really starting to grow on me

Written by Coolingsrock on 30.01.2024 at 00:48

I thought It was pretty generic at first but it's really starting to grow on me

It IS pretty generic, but it’s still so fucking enjoyable!

Yeah I suppose you're right, I was pretty tired. I guess I meant it didn't grab me at first

Huge respect to these guys for continuing to play music till this age but to myself it sounded generic heavy metal. Didn't find anything worthwhile.

Byford is the hero here. Let's forget the standard lyrics and riffs. His vocals compensates everything. Man, he gets my full respect.

Saxon and Priest amaze me in this year by releasing such great works so late in their career - inspiring! Obviously, it's basic Heavy Metal right here, but the level of quality is excellent!
Highlights: "Fire And Steel", "Kubla Khan And The Merchant Of Venice", "Madame Guillotine" and title track.