Saxon Premiere New Single & Music Video “Hell, Fire And Damnation”

Saxon Premiere New Single & Music Video “Hell, Fire And Damnation”

Few bands can boast reaching their 20th album milestone in their careers, but Saxon has long surpassed that mark. The renowned British heavy metal outfit has recently revealed the imminent release of their 24th studio album, “Hell, Fire And Damnation,” slated to arrive on January 19 through Silver Lining Music. Providing a preview of the album, the title track is now available for streaming via YouTube and Spotify for you below.

The production for “Hell, Fire And Damnation” was a collaboration between Andy Sneap (known for his work with Judas Priest, Exodus, Accept) and Byford, with Sneap handling the mixing and mastering.

Explains Saxon’s singer Biff Byford:

“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.

There’s so much music out there about hell and the devil and the occult that I just thought it’s about time somebody wrote one about the battle just between good and evil! You can’t sing about the devil without singing about the good guy either, and the song basically says ‘make your choice’. We all have to make the choice, are we evil or are we good? The song’s about that fight.”

Byford expresses immense satisfaction with the final outcome of the album:

“I think this album’s one of the best he’s done sound-wise, and he’s done a lot of albums. It has a really raw, vibrant sound… if you compress the total time making this album, it was four weeks tops… you can hear everything brilliantly, nothing’s overcomplicated, and nothing’s over-compressed. The guitar sounds are fucking immense, they’re just great, raw guitar sounds. And we haven’t done a lot of overdubbing on there, it’s just playing. I really, really like it.”