SAXON Will Dedicate Song To MOTÖRHEAD On New Album

Vocalist Biff Byford of British heavy metal legends SAXON spoke to EonMusic about the progress of the recording sessions for the band’s follow-up to 2015’s “Battering Ram” album. He said: “Yeah, we got about nine drum tracks laid down. We’re running two studios at the same time, so we’re writing in one, and recording in the other, and we’re tripping backwards and forwards when we’re working. We’ve got a lot of ideas already; me and Nibbs [Carter, bassist] have got shitloads, and we’re just working through ideas with the band, really.”

Asked how long they will spend in the studio working on the new SAXON album, Biff said: “We’ll be in until the end of this week, and then we’re off to Sweden to a festival. Then we come back in about a week before the tour, and we spend a week recording, and then we go straight on tour on the 28th October. So yeah, we’ll have a three-week break in the middle, but I’ll probably be writing lyrics and doing melodies then. I usually do that on my own.”

SAXON‘s new album will include a song called “They Played Rock And Roll”, dedicated to MOTÖRHEAD.

“Yeah, that’s on its way,” Biff said. “I’ve finished the lyrics for that, and it will make the album. It’s about the eighties, really. It’s about the ‘Bomber’ tour, and ‘Ace Of Spades’. That’s when we first met them; on the ‘Bomber’ tour, we supported them, so it’s about that, and the album ‘No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith’, and the subsequent ’80s scene.”

“Battering Ram” was released last October in North America via UDR Music. The album featured Byford alongside Paul Quinn and Doug Scarratt on guitar, Nibbs Carter on bass and Nigel Glockler on drums.

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