Saxon/Borealis - The Galaxy Santa Ana, CA 10/11
Saxon/Borealis - The Galaxy Santa Ana, CA 10/11
By Jeffrey Easton
It has been close to two decades since the mighty Saxon toured California so the packed Galaxy in Santa Ana was more than amped to have their favorite British metal titans conquer the stage once again. To set the stage The Galaxy threw out a few local acts that as usual, are just no good. I cannot believe that the quality of local metal bands in Southern California is so low. I guess if you can sell a few tickets you earn the right to play on a stage. That being said Canadian metalers Borealis hit the stage as direct support and had the ears of the fans from the first note. They have a new album entitled Fall From Grace and it is blistering. They are a technically gifted epic power metal outfit and their music sored! They had a short but powerful set and the new record was represented well with Finest Hour, Where We Started as well as Forgotten Forever. This band will go places and you need to be on that ride with them. Saxon hit the stage next to a massive amount of applause and it was on. The new record is Call To Arms and it is maliciously heavy, a brilliant bullet of metal that will leave your ears ringing for days. The band seemingly decided to represent about half the record and that’s good because the reason to tour is sell the new album and that they did. The blasted through the new tracks Hammer Of the Gods, Back in ’79, Call To Arms, When Doomsday Comes, Mists Of Avalon as well as Chasing The bullet. The band are proud of this record and deservedly so. The classics cannot be left out and the band turned it up another notch with Motorcycle Man, Battalions of Steel, Denim And Leather and with the two encores Wheels Of Steel, 747 as well as Strong Arm Of The Law. This was an amazing night of metal and I am sure it left an impression on the band that they still had a diehard crowd of head bangers following their every step. Let’s hope it’s not another decade plus before they grace us again with their metal.
Official Saxon Site
Official Borealis Site
By Jeffrey Easton
It has been close to two decades since the mighty Saxon toured California so the packed Galaxy in Santa Ana was more than amped to have their favorite British metal titans conquer the stage once again. To set the stage The Galaxy threw out a few local acts that as usual, are just no good. I cannot believe that the quality of local metal bands in Southern California is so low. I guess if you can sell a few tickets you earn the right to play on a stage. That being said Canadian metalers Borealis hit the stage as direct support and had the ears of the fans from the first note. They have a new album entitled Fall From Grace and it is blistering. They are a technically gifted epic power metal outfit and their music sored! They had a short but powerful set and the new record was represented well with Finest Hour, Where We Started as well as Forgotten Forever. This band will go places and you need to be on that ride with them. Saxon hit the stage next to a massive amount of applause and it was on. The new record is Call To Arms and it is maliciously heavy, a brilliant bullet of metal that will leave your ears ringing for days. The band seemingly decided to represent about half the record and that’s good because the reason to tour is sell the new album and that they did. The blasted through the new tracks Hammer Of the Gods, Back in ’79, Call To Arms, When Doomsday Comes, Mists Of Avalon as well as Chasing The bullet. The band are proud of this record and deservedly so. The classics cannot be left out and the band turned it up another notch with Motorcycle Man, Battalions of Steel, Denim And Leather and with the two encores Wheels Of Steel, 747 as well as Strong Arm Of The Law. This was an amazing night of metal and I am sure it left an impression on the band that they still had a diehard crowd of head bangers following their every step. Let’s hope it’s not another decade plus before they grace us again with their metal.
Official Saxon Site
Official Borealis Site
