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British Heavy Metal legends Saxon have delivered a full-roar-fun-down set of covers with their latest album Inspirations, which drops an 11 track release featuring some of the superb classic rock songs that influenced Biff Byford & the band.
Inspirations was recorded at Brockfield Hall near York in the UK, which was built in 1804 and holds the largest collection of paintings by Yorkshireās impressionist artists ā the Staithes Group. For Byford, recording Inspirations all together within such a rich historical environment was a major ingredient of the project. āThe warmth and feel of Inspirations had so much to do with being together in this magnificent place and doing it āold-schoolā style,ā Byford explains. āThis is how many bands back in the day -including some of the ones covered here- made such great albums, so it just felt really good to be able to do this somewhere like Brockfield Hall.ā The results speak for themselves.
From the super-charged melodic romp of The Beatlesā āPaperback Writerā to their freeway mad take on Jimi Hendrixās āStone Freeā, Saxon show their love and appreciation with a series of faithful, raw and ready tributes. Maintaining a firm eye on the old school way using Marshall cabs, Marshall amps, real drums and produced by Biff Byford with Jacky Lehmann recording and mixing, Saxon approach the likes of Motƶrheadās āBomberā (with added whistle!), AC/DCās āProblem Childā, Black Sabbathās āEvil Womanā and a raucous Deep Purpleās āSpeed Kingā with refreshingly warm, unfiltered, āvintageā sounding renditions.
āWe wanted to do an album based on our influences, the songs and bands that inspired us to write what we did and still do,ā continues Byford, āand it was also interesting to see what my voice could do as I havenāt sung many of these songs before.ā
Byford does, indeed, take on some new vocal challenges, which he duly smashes on the likes of Thin Lizzyās āThe Rockerā. The net result is that whether cranking up a heavyweight take on Led Zeppelin's āImmigrant Songā or throwing down AC/DCās āProblem Childā, Saxon does a supreme job of entertaining both themselves and their audience throughout Inspirations.
"We didn't want to change any of the songs too much, just play them more like Saxon,ā concludes Byford, āand we also think itās very important to have -and share with the fans- some fun in these dark times."
You want even more proof of the validity behind that statement? Wrap your ears around their sparkling take on Totoās āHold The Lineā and consider Saxonās Inspirations a mission accomplished.
Saxonās Inspirations is available on Vinyl, CD, digital formats and limited edition D2C products.
Track Listing:
1. Paint It Black
2. Immigrant Song
3. Paperback Writer
4. Evil Woman
5. Stone Free
6. Bomber
7. Speed King
8. The Rocker
9. Hold The Line
10. Problem Child
11. See My Friends
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