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Lokverkstan

591 46, Motala, Sweden

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Doors open: 20:00

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Saxon biography

At the forefront of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, Saxon dominated the 80s with high selling albums and singles and went on to influence future greats like Metallica and Slayer.

The Barnsley band were formed by Biff Byford on vocals and Paul Quinn on guitar who have both remained constants within the band’s morphing line up over the years. After a brief stint under the name ‘Son Of a Bitch’, they adopted ‘Saxon’ as their moniker and began to build a following as they toured the UK in support of larger acts like Motorhead.

The band’s second album ‘Wheels Of Steel’ was when they first showed the potential they had as it hit number 5 in the album charts. Successful singles like ‘747’ and ‘Wheels of Steel’ were popular enough for the band to make the first on many appearances on popular UK chart show ‘Top of The Pops’.

From then on Saxon experienced nothing but success for the remainder of the decade with 8 top 40 albums including what many fans consider the band’s best work ‘Strong Arm of The Law’. They toured the world and played huge festival slots at the likes of ‘Monsters of Rock’ and when their popularity was at a peak they signed a deal with EMI records.

The label expected the band to match their European successes in the US but when this failed to manifest the band were dropped from EMI. This wasn’t going to stop them though as decades later, the band still tour and release albums. Their long career has earned them the respect of the metal community and a dedicated fanbase who continue to enjoy watching the band play at places like Download Festival.

Live reviews

Saxon have been a band for many years now, gracing the heavy metal scene in the U.K with the huge metal sounds. They have gain some pretty impressive accolades over time making 8 UK Top 40 albums in the 80’s including four UK Top 10 albums and two Top 5 albums. They also managed to have numerous singles in the UK Singles Chart and chart success on the whole continent! Tonight’s audience are hungry for metal, the bars are lined with the hordes or metalheads who you can tell have been with Saxon from the beginning, some are sporting the tour t shirts from 20 years ago too. They open with the riff heavy Crusader which puts this audience in the right frame of mind for this ruckus of a performance, which has the crowd just erupting. “Metalhead” is a worthy sophomore song, that keeps the party going, and then they finish on the epic “Lionheart” which has the audience astounded at the amazing musicality of this band.

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