{"id":26634,"date":"2025-06-11T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=26634"},"modified":"2025-06-07T14:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T14:29:12","slug":"saxon-eagles-over-hellfest-militia-guard-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=26634","title":{"rendered":"Saxon \u2013 ‘Eagles Over Hellfest’ (MILITIA GUARD MUSIC)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The mighty Saxon continues their journey as one of the UK\u2019s most well-known metal bands. Their output still comes thick and fast, but never compromising on quality. They know what their rabid fan base wants and deliver every time. They are still a formidable live act even though original member Paul Quinn decided to step down recently. Never fear, though; Diamond Head founder Brian Tatler stepped up and is a fantastic addition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eagles Over Hellfest is an epic documentation of Saxon\u2019s blistering performance at Hellfest in France last year. The band smash out a set of classics and material from their latest LP Hell, Fire and Damnation. With a career as long as Saxon has enjoyed, picking a set of material must be a task. Everything you would expect to hear at a Saxon show is here: ‘Motorcycle Man’, ‘Power and the Glory’, ‘Heavy Metal Thunder’, ‘Dallas 1PM’, ‘The Eagle Has Landed’, ‘Strong Arm of the Law’ all sound incredible. The new tracks sound great too, we have the title track from Hell, Fire and Damnation and Madame Guillotine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The band are on fire as always, but Biff Byford sounds better than ever; he\u2019s constantly whipping up the crowd to a frenzy and has them in the palm of his hand. He\u2019s singing better than people half his age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A special shout out must go to drummer Nigel Glockler too. His playing is exemplary, a showcase in heavy metal drumming. Simply brilliant. Doug Scarratt plays his arse of too and even though I can\u2019t see bass player Nibs Carter while listening to the album, I can picture him going crazy and constantly banging his head in my minds eye!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The album blasts through blistering versions of And the Bands Played On, Denim and Leather, Wheels of Steel, 747 (Strangers in the Night), Crusader, and finishes off with the legendary ‘Princess of the Night’. Crystal clear production from Biff makes you feel like you were there at Hellfest, singing along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saxon shows us yet again why they are a constant in the lives of metal fans all over the world and have influenced so many. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fill your heads with Heavy Metal Thunder!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy Here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author: Kenny Kendrick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The mighty Saxon continues their journey as one of the UK\u2019s most well-known metal bands. Their output still comes thick and fast, but never compromising on quality. They know what their rabid fan base wants and deliver every time. They are still a formidable live act even though original member Paul Quinn decided to step […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1787,1681,1680,3490,1833],"class_list":["post-26634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-its-a-revolution","tag-rpmnews1","tag-rpmonline","tag-saxon","tag-tourlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26636,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26634\/revisions\/26636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}