Saxon

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating

Based on

121

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reviews

Last 12 Months Rating

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critic concert
reviews

Real Live Certified

Critic Consensus

Saxon is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 10% of all live performers. Based on 121 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Saxon is rated as a superb live performer, with remarkable shows that are worth watching. Saxon concert reviews describe live shows and performances as nostalgic.

ON TOUR

Aladin Music Hall, Bremen, Germany (Feb 4); Slagthuset MMX, Malmö, Sweden (Feb 9); Lucerna Music Bar, Praha, Czech Republic (Feb 19); Klub Studio, Kraków, Poland (Feb 20); Progresja, Warszawa, Poland (Feb 23); Muffathalle, Munich, Germany (Feb 25); Volkshaus, Zürich, Switzerland (Feb 28); Poppodium 013, Tilburg, Netherlands (Mar 2); Huxleys Neue Welt, Berlin, Germany (Mar 4); White Oak Music Hall, Houston, United States (Mar 20); Memorial da América Latina, São Paulo, Brazil (May 2); Mister Rock, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (May 4)

FESTIVALS IN 2025

Hells Heroes Festival 2025

March 20 - 22, 2025

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Latest Release

Bring The Beat Back - Single (4 October 2024)

Artist Info

Genre

metal

Origin

Barnsley, United Kingdom (1976 - present)

Bio

Saxon is a British heavy metal band, formed in Barnsley, England in 1976. As pioneers of, and at the forefront of the then New Wave of British Heavy Metal the band enjoyed a period of prominence in the UK (including popular chart success) and Europe in the early 1980s, and later the USA and Japan.

Has Performed With

UFO, Fozzy, Fastway, Armored Saint, Anvil

Critic Concert Reviews

Chicago Concert Reviews (USA)

May 18, 2024

British heavy metal mainstays Uriah Heep, Saxon bring “Hell, Fire & Chaos” to Rialto Square

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Buzz Magazine (UK)

November 18, 2022

SAXON + DIAMOND HEAD transport St. David’s Hall back to the British metal new wave

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Backseat Mafia

February 6, 2022

As the evening descended upon us and I approached the Apollo for the early door time of 17

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Distorted Sound Magazine (UK)

August 24, 2021

When festival season was wiped out last year thanks to the raging COVID-19 pandemic, for us music fans, it felt a hammerblow with our summer being quiet and solitary away from the buzz of a packed crown or the roar of amplified noise on an outdoor stage.

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The Arts STL (USA)

April 8, 2018

Saxon Live In Concert

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V13 (Canada)

April 2, 2018

They helped define the sound of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal along with bands like Diadmond Head, Raven and acts that broke into the mainstream such as Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Motorhead.

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