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SAXON Premiere ‘Dambusters’ Music Video
December 26th, 2022

Yorkshire, England-based heavy metal band Saxon have filmed a music video for the track ‘Dambusters’, which can be viewed below.

Saxon issued 23rd full-length studio album Carpe Diem on February 4th, 2022 through Silver Lining Music.

Regarding the album, frontman Biff Byford stated: “We want every album we make to go platinum. We never make an album that we don’t expect to be fantastic because there are no laurels around here, and as a band, we’re always trying to do something a little bit new, a little bit daring. I love fast metal like ‘Princess Of The Night’ and ‘20,000 Feet’ and I try and bring that style of Saxon into the music now, but in a more modern style. We don’t sound like an old band on records because we’re not sitting back on our past success, we’re always trying to make a great album.

“It’s been a difficult two years because I had the heart attack back in September 2019, so things went a bit pear-shaped for the band. And then Covid hit two or three months later, but luckily, we started writing and recording this album before Covid. We did the drums in Germany and we did the guitars in various places. I was doing a lot of writing while I was in the hospital bed, and we spent quite a long time writing and arranging the ideas that we all had. I do think it’s a very intense album, and maybe some of that intensity comes from the frustration of not being able to do anything in the Covid period.”

Carpe Diem was co-produced by Andy Sneap and Biff Byford, while mixing and mastering duties also fell to Sneap at Backstage Recording Studio in Derbyshire, England.

Cover artwork was once again created by long-time Saxon collaborator Paul Raymond Gregory.

The track listing is as follows:

01. ‘Carpe Diem (Seize The Day)’
02. ‘Age Of Steam’
03. ‘The Pilgrimage’
04. ‘Dambusters’
05. ‘Remember The Fallen’
06. ‘Super Nova’
07. ‘Lady In Gray’
08. ‘All For One’
09. ‘Black Is The Night’
10. ‘Living On The Limit’

Saxon’s line-up is as follows:

Biff Byford (vocals)
Paul Quinn (guitar)
Doug Scarratt (guitar)
Nibbs Carter (bass)
Nigel Glockler (drums)

Music videos were filmed for the title track, ‘Carpe Diem (Seize The Day)’, and the songs ‘Remember The Fallen’, ‘The Pilgrimage’ and ‘Black Is The Night’. In addition, an official lyric video was created for the song ‘Super Nova’. All four clips can also be viewed below.

Twenty-second studio record Thunderbolt was released in February 2018 via Militia Guard, an imprint of Silver Lining Music.

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