Saxon - 'Fire And Steel' (official music video)

Feeding the furnace and melting the iron
Twisting and grinding and smelting the steel
Steaming and sweating the fruits of their labour
The best in the world is called Sheffield steel

Flames flying into the night
Searing white heat, blinding light

Fire and steel made this mighty city
Fire and steel, forged by working hands
Fire and steel, red hot and heavy
Fire and steel, the finest in the land

White hot and molten and flowing like lava
Bending and shaping and pounding the iron
Lifting and shifting the weight of the city
Shipping and moving their steel 'cross the world

Man and machine never stop
Forging their steel on the clock

Fire and steel made this mighty city
Fire and steel, forged with working hands
Fire and steel, red hot and heavy
Fire and steel, the finest in the land

The sound of the city, the crushing of metal
Blend in the iron to make into steel
Using the science to fuss with the knowledge
A great northern city leading the world

Flames flying into the night
Searing white heat, blinding light

Fire and steel made this mighty city
Fire and steel, forged with Yorkshire hands
Fire and steel, red hot and heavy
Fire and steel, the greatest in the land

27 full length albums "γράφει" ήδη το (δισκογραφικό) κοντέρ" των Saxon. "Hell, Fire and Damnation" ο τίτλος και κυκλοφορόρησε στις αρχές 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.»

Παρακολουθούμε το μουσικό βίντεο του τραγουδιού "Fire And Steel", για το οποίο ο Biff Byford μας λέει:

«The original title was ‘Fire and Steam’ and the song itself is more thrash than classic metal. I was going to do it about something else, and then I had a bit of an epiphany and I thought ‘Fire And Steel’ was better let’s do it about Sheffield. If people were eating with a knife and fork back, say, a hundred years ago, that was something that sometimes was made in Sheffield. They invented stainless steel there, and there’s still a lot of steel in Sheffield but nothing like it used to be. Sheffield was one of my big stomping grounds when I was a teenager. We used to go to Sheffield and see all the bands at Sheffield City Hall, and the clubs and pubs there that had bands on.»

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: "Fire And Steel"
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