heavy metal thunder by saxon

This cd got me back in to heavy metal.What a great band,I am surprised that Saxon is not more popular in the USA.I just cant get enough of songs like Crusader,And the bands played on,Te eagle has landed,747,Dallas 1pm,and many more on this disc.This is what rock and roll is all about.With great songs like these its no wonder they are still around today,while alot of bands are gone and forgotten.Awesome,my neck got a good work out,from banging my head,if you know what i mean.

One of the best N.W.O.B.H.M albums period

Im not going to waste word another then to say this is a great album. So heres the review.

1.Heavy metal thunder, Saxon starts off the album with one of their best songs, great riffs and solos. 11/10

2.Strong arm of the Law, one of their catchier more rock songs but very good 8/10 (im learning to like it more so in a week it will probably be 9/10

3. Power and Glory. Powerful opening riff, cool bass during the chorus. I love this song becuase that opening riff just keeps popping up just when you think its died down. Great metal guitar solo, mainly becuase of the riff. 10/10

4. And the bands played on. A classic song that has great lyrics with a guitar riff that sounds very dramatic. 8.5/10

5.Crusader. the weakest song here mainly becuase this was made around when saxon sold out. 6/10

6. Dallas One P.M. Good song kind of a tough guy guitar riff.
8/10

7. Princess of the Night. Heres where the album gets really good. Fast guitar riff, and nice guitar solo with a cool background riff. 10/10

8. Wheels of Steel. Not as good as motorcycle man, but with better guitar solo. decent riff. 10/10

9. Strangers in the night. Solid, good song, just was never really one of my favorites. 8/10

10. Motorcycle man. Great british metal riff with thrash like drumming, nice e cord pounding during the guitar solo, the whistling from biff sounds cool too. 11/10

11. Never Surrender. I love this song becuase it tells excatly what saxon did, they never did surrender for those of you who know saxons story this makes sense. Nice Rock/metal guitar riff, adrenilne pumping chorus and background riff, fast rocking guitar solo. The best part of this song is the end chorus where it seems like its going to end but with a pound of the cymbals the chorus goes on. 11/10

12. Denim and leather.the riff sound way ahead off its time, would be just an o.k song if it wasn't for the lyrics and what they are about. 8/10

13.Backs to the Wall. A hard fast rock tune, Biff kind of souns like David Lee Roth in the beggining with his scream
9/10

So buy this album if your into British metal or you think you like metal, great album my only complaint is i wish crusader was replaced with Machine Gun, one of my favotite Saxon Songs.

Surprise Purchase of the Year

Longtime HM fan of the early 80's...Priest, Maiden, Saxon. Stumbled on this CD and said why not. Hoping that it was just remastered, to my surprise, it was re-recorded! And blows away the original recordings. Biff is pushing mid 50's and sounds better now than he did 20 uears ago on this CD. Dallas 1PM was what early 80's metal was all about, and this version kicks some serious a$$!



I hope that more of the early metal bands follow this lead and re-record some of their vintage works because this was definitely the best $14.95 I spent all year.