SAXON - π±πππ π¬ππ πΎππππ π₯⚔️ from the album "π³πππ, π±πππ π¬ππ π―ππππππππ"
“The original title was ‘Fire and Steam’ and the song itself is more thrash than classic metal, comments Byford. I was going to do it about something else, and then I had a bit of an epiphany and I thought ‘Fire And Steel’ was better let’s do it about Sheffield. If people were eating with a knife and fork back, say, a hundred years ago, that was something that sometimes was made in Sheffield. They invented stainless steel there, and there’s still a lot of steel in Sheffield but nothing like it used to be. Sheffield was one of my big stomping grounds when I was a teenager. We used to go to Sheffield and see all the bands at Sheffield City Hall, and the clubs and pubs there that had bands on.”
The band have just recently announced the “Hell, Fire And Steel” European tour which will not only see the band performing songs from their well received, recently released, top 20 album Hell, Fire And Damnation (out now on Silver Lining Music) but will also see the band play the whole of their classic sophomore album Wheels of Steel (released 45 years ago next year) as well as also playing other fan favourites and hits from across the band’s career.