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The British Heavy Metal legends have delivered a fullroarfundown set of covers with their 2021 covers opus, Inspirations, which features some of the superb classic rock songs that influenced Biff Byford & the band. Released on March 19th 2021, Inspirations includes Saxon’ s crunching take on The Rolling Stones’ ‘Paint It Black’. From the supercharged melodic romp of The Beatles’ ‘Paperback Writer’ to their freeway mad take on Jimi Hendrix’ s ‘Stone Free’, Saxon show their love and appreciation with a series of faithful, raw and ready tributes. Recorded at Brockfield House near York, UK, with a firm eye on the old school way using Marshall cabs, Marshall &s, real drums and produced by Biff Byford with Jacky Lehmann recording and mixing, Saxon approach the likes of Motoumlrhead’ s ‘Bomber’ with added whistle, ACDC’ s ‘Problem Child’, Black Sabbath’ s ‘Evil Woman’ and a raucous Deep Purple’ s ‘Speed King’ with refreshingly warm, unfiltered, “vintage” sounding renditions.Byford takes on some new vocal challenges, which he duly smashes on the likes of Thin Lizzy’ s ‘The Rocker’. The net result is that whether cranking up a heavyweight take on Led Zeppelins ‘Immigrant Song’ or throwing down ACDC’ s ‘Problem Child’, Saxon does a supreme job of entertaining both themselves and their audience throughout Inspirations.
