BIFF BYFORD Comments On METALLICA's SAXON 'Tribute'

June 9, 2008

SAXON frontman Biff Byford has posted a lengthy blog recapping the band's appearance at this year's Rock am Ring festival on June 7 in Nrburgring, Germany. An excerpt from the entry follows.

"We went to see METALLICA play a fucking amazing stage set. We stood at the side of the stage and some guy walks up and says come with me and he takes us though the stage set into the tunnel to the cockpit (that's what it's called) behind Lars [Ulrich, METALLICA drummer]. If you've seen the shows, it's where they go to change guitars. It's a bit similar to what we had on the 'Crusader' tour everything behind the castle set. Suddenly they [METALLICA] play [SAXON's] 'Princess Of The Night' and a bit of 'Motorcycle Man'.

"That's what I call a good day and the guys in [METALLICA] went out of their way to be friendly and say hello. We really appreciate it. We know they are big Saxon fans and we want to thank them. Fucking brilliant. So after 28 years, we finally met metal warriors in the circle of life when fate put them together many years ago to bring them full circle to meet again the circle is complete.

"Just to fill you in on new stuff we will play the Montreux Jazz Festival on July 14th.

"The new [SAXON] album [which is currently being recorded] will be out in January. There will be a single for release in October on download. We have not decided the title of the album yet, but the single will be called 'Live To Rock' and SPV will be making a video."

Read the rest of Biff's blog entry at this location.

Professionally filmed video footage of METALLICA's SAXON "tribute" on June 7, 2008 at the Rock am Ring festival in Nrburgring, Germany can be viewed below.

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