One but not the other?

[HighlanderTM]

Being a Saxon fan and Iron Maiden fan for many years (close to at least 10 years for both) it comes as no surprise to find out about the number of Saxon fans that listen to Iron Maiden, and visa versa. As a Saxon fan, do you listen to Iron Maiden, and if not, what is it about Eddie and co that puts you off?

Should be interesting to see how close the audience between both bands are. Now if only we could get both Saxon and Maiden touring together!











****And now for the custom known as 'asking for it' but i consider 'Brave New World' to be superior to Killing Ground. I was REALLY hacked off to find out that 'Court of the Crimson King' was a cover song rather than an original! Saxon need to write more material like that...

 

[RicknRoll]

Hey just want to let you know that Iron Maiden are good in there own right just as Saxon is too.... so to try to compare the two bands would be doing both a great injustice.

Also you mentioned that you were hacked that Saxon covered the song Crimson King and were also surprised to find that they didn't write it, "well I got a another surprise for you "hold on to your hat"... awhile back Maiden recorded a song called "Cross eyed Mary" got news again for yeah they didn't write it, it's a cover of a Jethro Tull song. Just thought I'd bring that to your attention.

 

[BajenPatte]

Well, I like Maiden too but you can't really compare the two of them. Their music differs a whole lot. You may call them both heavy metal bands but their style differs.
Saxon are generally more riff based, hard rock influenced than Maidens more instrumental "speedy" kind of music. So you really don't automatically have to like Maiden if you like Saxon...
And "in the long run" I sure prefer Saxon's kind of music even there really are no other band like Saxon.

All the above IMHO.

 

[Lord of the Grey Grim North]

I knew before Court Of The Crimson King was a cover of 70's progressive rock band King Crimson. I remember reading an interview with Biff on the net, where he said that cover was to be included on the Killing Ground album. I'm going against popular opinion here, with saying that cover is what bothers me the most about Killing Ground. Not to my liking at all.

I listen to Iron Maiden too, just not as often as I listen to Saxon. And I must say I like Killing Ground better than I like Brave New World. My main problem with Maiden is Bruce Bruce (<--- if you know your N.W.O.B.H.M. history ), as I find myself getting tired of his vocals at times. I'm not saying Bruce is a bad singer, just not always my pint of ale.

 

[Paxoman]

I wrote this under "How old are we" in response to what Highlander said there. But it seems more appropriate here. -


Highlander.

Iron Maiden better then Saxon? I think not.

I was really looking forward to seeing Maiden at brixton in march, but left the gig really disappointed. Apart from the @#%$ sound, Iron Maiden are clearly way past their best. And having read the Iron Maiden website it seems a hell of a lot of fans were disappointed at it being the same setlist that Maiden done on their Brave New World tour. It seems that Maiden can't vary their setlist. Unlike Saxon, who vary it every night on the same tour, let alone months later!

Ask anyone who has seen Saxon recently and they will tell you that Saxon are better live now then they have ever been. Unlike Maiden, who are embarrassingly way past it.

Brave New World is an ok album but nothing special. Where as Saxon have put out 3 solid albums in a row. So for you to say Maiden are class A and Saxon are class B is quite frankly b******s. If you love Maiden so much, and think Saxon are so 'inferior', why don't you stick to their website. Simple really.

Pax.

 

[Peter Day]

Well Highlander i think most people who love heavy metal would say that they listen to both Iron Maiden and Saxon (as i do).
However, we all have pet bands. some Iron Maiden fans are pretty blinkered though and thats all they go on about,how good they are etc etc.. (yawns long at this point)
well to be quite frank the last gigs have been alright, not superb, just alright! that is because they are just touting about the same crap set and set list. Whereas at least saxon go for the juggular (i haven't a clue what the Juggler has done but they still go for him <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/embarassed.gif ALT=""> )!!!).
every show i have been to has been awesome in the last three years.
As for the albums the music is miles apart these days.. it is still heavy metal but the gulf between the two bands is huge. As Bajenpatte said one is more guitar riff rock and the other is bass heavy rock with better lyrical content in it. I listen to more saxon these days than i do Maiden i have to say. Mainly because the last albums maiden have done have been pretty weak sounding. I listen to Primal Fear instead of Maiden or hammerfall or Helloween in preference to maiden, as well as a good dose of saxon in all that.
I have to agree with 'Lord.....' over Bruce Bruce (oh yes we remember his days in Samson), he can be irritating some times, vocally that is.
As for covers , well that one is good but don't make it a habit. You have far to much talent in saxon to waste doing covers really. Still it is there album at the end of the day and they have to do some things to please themselves, otherwise why do it?!
overall maiden just don't cut the ice anymore, what we need from them is a really good album that blends Beast with 7th and possibly powerslave, but with as few of the 9 minute songs as possible! dead boring we like to party and you can't do that if someone is going widdly widdly widdly in front of you for 4 minutes on his guitar!! (have to add here though that the Maiden show in Paris, when Bruce rejoined, was absolutely awesome why? great looking stage, lots of smiles and all the best tracks, me thinks that evening Egos were left at the door! best thing that happened then was Blaze formed as well, mega Cool)