Heavy metal these days is in constant flux, trying to reinvent itself, oftentimes by going back to the roots and digging up and reusing what made traditional metal so great thirty years ago. In swoop the mighty Saxon to prove that the some of the founding fathers are still going strong and remain the bosses of this monster mamma jam…
Recorded at The Pacific Recording Studios, San Mateo, California 1969. This was before Santana signed a record deal with Columbia Records. These recordings, which also included the original versions of ‘Persuasion’ and ‘Jingo’ and could easily be judged to be finished masters, became the auditions tapes from which CBS was to sign the band and launch them on their way to international success.
Thunderbolt is the upcoming twenty-second studio album by British heavy metal band Saxon, due to be released on 2 February 2018.