Solid Ball Of Rock

Performer: Saxon
Engineer: Kallie; Biff
Producer: Kallie Traff; Kalle Trapp; Saxon
Distributor: Ryko Distribution

Notes: Saxon: Biff Byford (vocals); Graham Oliver, Paul Quinn (guitar); Nibbs Carter (bass); Nigel Glockler (drums). Personnel: Biff Byford (vocals); Graham Oliver, Paul Quinn (guitar); Nigel Glockler (drums). Audio Mixers: Kalle Trapp; Saxon. Liner Note Author: Biff Byford. After being dropped by EMI following a number of commercial and critical stiffs in the late '80s, the boys in Saxon signed with Charisma for their tenth album, Solid Ball of Rock. The record saw another stylistic U-turn, but for once it was an improvement. The songwriting was still largely unimpressive, but the addition of new bassist Nibbs Carter seemed to inject some new life into the group, which recorded its most aggressive batch of songs in a decade, including "Altar of the Gods" and the scorching "Baptism of Fire." ~ Eduardo Rivadavia

Along with Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, Saxon was one of the key bands in the early-1980s scene known as the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. Using the hard-rock template laid out by Deep Purple and Black Sabbath but playing a faster, louder, and more theatrically bombastic version of it, Saxon's sound would influence a plethora of metal bands--from Megadeth and Bathory to Metallica and the Darkness--for decades to come.

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