Saxon - 'Madame Guillotine' (official music video)

They call me the death
I've come to settle your debts
Marie Antoinette, I've took your pretty head
I am the scourge of the rich
Revenge of the poor

Your cries are in vain,
I can help with your pain
The arrangements are made,
You will die by my blade

Just let me introduce you to Madame Guillotine
She'll be pleased to meet you,
But please don't lose your head
Madame Guillotine

The revolution came
I was never to blame
It was my purpose to kill
But people came for the thrill
For the sound of the mob
Paying for your blood

And I'll show no remorse,
I am set on my course
All I feel is the drop of my blade

Just let me introduce you to Madame Guillotine
She'll be pleased to meet you,
But please don't lose your head
Madame Guillotine

There was never enough
To satisfy the lust
For the head in the basket
Another caught for the casket
To entertain the crowd
Your severed head held proud

Have no feeling or guilt,
Why my structure was built
I'm a slave to my masters,
I'll do as I'm built

Just let me introduce you to Madame Guillotine
She'll be pleased to meet you,
But please don't lose your head
Let me introduce you to Madame Guillotine
She'll be pleased to see you,
Be careful with your head
To Madame Guillotine
Please don't lose your head
To Madame Guillotine
To Madame Guillotine

27 full length albums "γράφει" ήδη το (δισκογραφικό) κοντέρ" των Saxon. "Hell, Fire and Damnation" ο τίτλος και κυκλοφορόρησε τον πρώτο μήνα του έτους. Ως προς την επιλογή του τίτλου ο Biff Byford μας εξηγεί:

«I’ve had that saying in my head since I was a small boy because my dad used to say it when he was upset. He used to say, ‘Hell, fire and damnation, what’s tha’ been doing now?!’ when I was ‘messing up his cabbage patch’ or carving things into the kitchen table. It was a very ‘Yorkshire’ saying back in the day.»

Δελτίο τύπου: «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, 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.

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.»

Band: Saxon
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Location: Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England
Formed in: 1978
Genre: NWOBHM, Heavy Metal
Lyrical themes: History, Mythology, Motorcycles, Rock / Metal
Years active: 1970-1976 (as Blue Condition), 1976-1977 (as SOB), 1977-1978 (as Son of a Bitch), 1978-present

Video: "Madame Guillotine"
Created by: Above The Void
Album: "Hell, Fire and Damnation"
Type: Full length
Release date: January 19th, 2024
Label: Silver Lining Music
Format: CD, 12" vinyl, Cassette, 3CD + 12" vinyl

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

Band members:
Biff Byford - Vocals
Nigel Glockler - Drums
Nibbs Carter - Bass
Doug Scarratt - Guitars
Brian Tatler - Guitars

Guest/Session:
Brian Blessed - Narration (track 1)

Miscellaneous staff:
Biff Byford - Producer
Andy Sneap - Producer, Mixing, Mastering
Seb Byford - Recording
Jacky Lehmann - Recording
Péter Sallai - Cover art