Byford says: "Some of it is quite brutal - but there's quite a lot of melodic stuff on there as well. Every Saxon album is different to the one before because we like to entertain people and we don't really like to write the same song all the time."

He adds of the band's progress: "I have a vocal to do and there's maybe two more guitars and we're finished. So I think the album will be out in October, perhaps even September."