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2009 remastered edition in jewelcase with 9 bonus tracks

Sometimes ignored, maybe because it is the first Saxon album that wasn’t made by the classic line up (new drummer Nigel Glockler), ‘Power And The Glory’ stands as a very strong traditional metal album. Creating fast metal songs without turning to thrash and keeping at the same time the mid-tempo NWOBHM trademark, Saxon presents here a very interesting effort that, in many ways, was condemned to be the post Eagle Has Landed album, so it was destined to lose. In general terms, this album moves, as ‘Crusader’ in an ethereal period of Saxon’s career: the golden years seem to be over after ‘The Eagle Has Landed’ live album, and the commercial days that would start with ‘Innocence Is No Excuse’ are still not clear; sadly, due this, both albums get usually overlooked, but there’s a lot of quality metal here that certainly can’t be forgotten.

Track listing:
1. Power And The Glory
2. Redline
3. Warrior
4. Nightmare
5. This Town Rocks
6. Watching The Sky
7. Midas Touch
8. The Eagle Has Landed
9. Make Em Rock-session track with Jeff Glixman
10. Turn Out The Lights-session track with Jeff Glixman
11. Turn Out The Lights-demo 1982
12. Stand Up And Rock-demo 1982
13. Power And The Glory-demo 1982
14. Saturday Night-demo 1982
15. Midas Touch-demo 1982
16. Nightmare-demo 1982
17. Redline-demo 1982