Saxon - 'Kubla Khan And The Merchant Of Venice' (official audio)
Follow the silk road far to the east
Riches await you beyond your belief
Legends and myths, the powder of fire
Beyond the great wall, the world's greatest empire
Over the burning hot sands
You search for the city of fire
To the court of the Kubla Khan
To the temples of Xanadu
In the halls of the Kubla Khan
You were the chosen one
Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice
From the city on water to the great Chinese wall
Your journey will take you to the last Golden Horde
To the emperor's great city on the edge of the world
A tale of adventure told in your words
You searched for the land of the dragon
The silk road will carry you there
To the court of the Kubla Khan
To the temples of Xanadu
In the halls of the Kubla Khan
You were the chosen one
The Merchant of Venice
The name Marco Polo, your legend survives
A merchant of Venice, we saw through your eyes
Long hidden people where dynasty reigned
Science and artists, these wonders you gazed
Search for the city of fire
The trade winds will carry you there
To the court of the Kubla Khan
To the temples of Xanadu
In the halls of the Kubla Khan
You were the chosen one
To the court of the Kubla Khan
To the temples of Xanadu
In the halls of the Kubla Khan
You were the chosen one
Merchant of Venice
Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice
Band: Saxon
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Location: Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England
Formed in: 1978
Genre: NWOBHM, Heavy Metal
Lyrical themes: History, Mythology, Motorcycles, Rock / Metal
Years active: 1970-1976 (as Blue Condition), 1976-1977 (as SOB), 1977-1978 (as Son of a Bitch), 1978-present
Audio: "Kubla Khan And The Merchant Of Venice"
Album: "Hell, Fire and Damnation"
Type: Full length
Release date: January 19th, 2024
Label: Silver Lining Music
Format: CD, 12" vinyl, Cassette, 3CD + 12" vinyl
Track listing:
01. The Prophecy
02. Hell, Fire and Damnation
03. Madame Guillotine
04. Fire and Steel
05. There's Something in Roswell
06. Kubla Khan and the Merchant of Venice
07. Pirates of the Airwaves
08. 1066
09. Witches of Salem
10. Super Charger
Band members:
Biff Byford - Vocals
Nigel Glockler - Drums
Nibbs Carter - Bass
Doug Scarratt - Guitars
Brian Tatler - Guitars
Guest/Session:
Brian Blessed - Narration (track 1)
Miscellaneous staff:
Biff Byford - Producer
Andy Sneap - Producer, Mixing, Mastering
Seb Byford - Recording
Jacky Lehmann - Recording
Péter Sallai - Cover art
Riches await you beyond your belief
Legends and myths, the powder of fire
Beyond the great wall, the world's greatest empire
Over the burning hot sands
You search for the city of fire
To the court of the Kubla Khan
To the temples of Xanadu
In the halls of the Kubla Khan
You were the chosen one
Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice
From the city on water to the great Chinese wall
Your journey will take you to the last Golden Horde
To the emperor's great city on the edge of the world
A tale of adventure told in your words
You searched for the land of the dragon
The silk road will carry you there
To the court of the Kubla Khan
To the temples of Xanadu
In the halls of the Kubla Khan
You were the chosen one
The Merchant of Venice
The name Marco Polo, your legend survives
A merchant of Venice, we saw through your eyes
Long hidden people where dynasty reigned
Science and artists, these wonders you gazed
Search for the city of fire
The trade winds will carry you there
To the court of the Kubla Khan
To the temples of Xanadu
In the halls of the Kubla Khan
You were the chosen one
To the court of the Kubla Khan
To the temples of Xanadu
In the halls of the Kubla Khan
You were the chosen one
Merchant of Venice
Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice
27 full length albums "γράφει" ήδη το (δισκογραφικό) κοντέρ" των Saxon. "Hell, Fire and Damnation" ο τίτλος και κυκλοφορόρησε προ διμήνου. Ως προς την επιλογή του τίτλου ο Biff Byford μας εξηγεί:
«I’ve had that saying in my head since I was a small boy because my dad used to say it when he was upset. He used to say, ‘Hell, fire and damnation, what’s tha’ been doing now?!’ when I was ‘messing up his cabbage patch’ or carving things into the kitchen table. It was a very ‘Yorkshire’ saying back in the day.»
«I’ve had that saying in my head since I was a small boy because my dad used to say it when he was upset. He used to say, ‘Hell, fire and damnation, what’s tha’ been doing now?!’ when I was ‘messing up his cabbage patch’ or carving things into the kitchen table. It was a very ‘Yorkshire’ saying back in the day.»
Δελτίο τύπου: «Hell, Fire And Damnation is an album which sees Saxon investigate all areas of history and mystery amidst ten of their most confident and thunderously powerful songs yet.
Biff delivers his richest vocals in years, Nigel Glockler and Nibbs Carter on drums and bass respectively lay down the rhythmic law with bombastic power and the guitars of Doug Scarratt and Brian Tatler are fresh and fiery, a perfect complement to each other, carrying an overall energy and fury which will have fans salivating.
Musically, Saxon bring it all to the table. There's a furious tribute to actual heavy metal in the denim & leather coated super-sprint “Fire And Steel”, a wonderful nod to the NWOBHM's birth in the electric mid-pace “Pirates Of The Airwaves”, but maybe the true treasure amidst the jewels is “There's Something In Roswell”, with the sort of expansive groove and embrace which deserves arenas.
Produced by Andy Sneap (Judas Priest, Exodus, Accept and Priest guitarist) and Biff Byford, with Sneap mixing and mastering, Hell, Fire And Damnation strides the perfect line between confident, current power and gloriously irreverent flexing of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal muscle which Saxon co-created.
2024 promises to be a great year for Saxon, with the European tour alongside Judas Priest and Uriah Heep kicking-off in the UK in March, plus the arrival of the heavy metal masterpiece Hell, Fire And Damnation.»
Band: Saxon
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Location: Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England
Formed in: 1978
Genre: NWOBHM, Heavy Metal
Lyrical themes: History, Mythology, Motorcycles, Rock / Metal
Years active: 1970-1976 (as Blue Condition), 1976-1977 (as SOB), 1977-1978 (as Son of a Bitch), 1978-present
Audio: "Kubla Khan And The Merchant Of Venice"
Album: "Hell, Fire and Damnation"
Type: Full length
Release date: January 19th, 2024
Label: Silver Lining Music
Format: CD, 12" vinyl, Cassette, 3CD + 12" vinyl
Track listing:
01. The Prophecy
02. Hell, Fire and Damnation
03. Madame Guillotine
04. Fire and Steel
05. There's Something in Roswell
06. Kubla Khan and the Merchant of Venice
07. Pirates of the Airwaves
08. 1066
09. Witches of Salem
10. Super Charger
Band members:
Biff Byford - Vocals
Nigel Glockler - Drums
Nibbs Carter - Bass
Doug Scarratt - Guitars
Brian Tatler - Guitars
Guest/Session:
Brian Blessed - Narration (track 1)
Miscellaneous staff:
Biff Byford - Producer
Andy Sneap - Producer, Mixing, Mastering
Seb Byford - Recording
Jacky Lehmann - Recording
Péter Sallai - Cover art
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