Inspirations is an album in which Saxon as a veteran band of more than 40 years in Heavy Metal with 23 studio albums and eight official live albums and that has never stopped touring and recording throughout its history and with estimated sales of some 16 million records around the world, pays tribute with all the utmost respect to the bands that influenced them and the "Inspirations" to make the career they have made over these more than 40 years and to be a reference in History of Heavy Metal, from that distant 1976 when Coast and Son Of A Bitch came together to form Saxon in 79 and record their debut album of the same name.
Inspirations have recorded it in the old way, as did the groups they honor in those days.
Saxon has chosen an iconic pre-Victorian mansion, built in 1804, in York next to his home in the quiet English countryside and all the musicians playing together on the recording there with the sound engineer and producer who is Biff himself. Byford and playing and remembering his influences as friends, with a very good vibes and enjoying ..... and I think that shows on the album.
They respect the structures, they pamper each of their honored hits, impregnating them with their Saxon touch and essence, because it is true that a cover is not fun if it is an exact copy of the song, for that the original song is already there, which makes it interesting it is the personal touch of whoever covers it again.
And that has already happened since the first song on the Paint It Black album by the Rollings Stones, which was also the first single of this Inspirations and the one that follows Inmigrant Song by Led Zeppelin, perhaps the ones that make me more curious to hear Saxon play They are the versions of the Beatles Paperback Writer and the halftime of The Kinks See Me Friends that closes the album, the coolest vocal register that Byford has there emulating Ozzy's register is in Evil Woman, a song that was already covered and popularized. Black Sabbath of the Yankee Crow group and in Stone Free by Jimmy Hendrix there Paul Quinn and Sacarrat are showing their chests ..... and there had to be the big fan of Hendrix who was the original guitar of Saxon Graham Oliver and there would be no missing one of Cream had been the original bassist Steve Dawson.
The hard part is in the middle of the album, which are the songs of Bomber de Motorhead who opened on that tour at that time Saxon with their first album and from which came the great friendship that the two bands always carried along with the girls from Grilschool and the fast version that follows of Deep Purple Speed King, this one gives way to The Rocker by Thin Lizzy softening the reed to the good classic rock of the Irish that serves as a bridge to enter a progressive rock that Biff likes so much And that embroiders a Hold The Line by Toto and from there move on to a beastly version of Problem Child of the omnipresent in the history of Saxon, AC / DC in which I love the choirs they do and Biff's voice reminds me of Killiing Ground (2004) is one of the best records of modern Saxon times and already closes the record softly with the Kinks.
A very well structured album, with a choice of very good songs, a very British album, different that is already needed when groups have careers of so many years, although Saxon for better or for worse have been changing their musical style throughout their careers and they haven't stuck on a sound like many famous bands do.
Something that this album does not have and I am grateful, is that it does not have an iota of Power, something that since Graham Oliver left Saxon in 1995 and Scarrat entered and the commercial recovery of Saxon's status went through where they had their fiefdom of unconditional fans that It was Germany, great followers of Power Metal, the compositions of many songs on their albums since then are excessively Power to be Saxon, which I thought would vary with the re-entry of drummer Nigel Glocker after his departure for a few years due to his cervical problems in the Inner Sactum album (2007) and it was not like that, although they have all been great albums, as Biff would say from "Grande Cojonesssss"
NEVER SURRENDER !!!!!!!!
Javier Barba Vallejo
Javier Barba Vallejo
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