Timing:

7:00 pm doors
7:45 pm ICED EARTH
9:20 pm SAXON

In January 2009 ‘Into The Labyrinth’ will be released, the brand new album from British heavy-metal monument Saxon. According to the band it's a tasty mix of in-your-face rock songs and pure heavy metal. Or to express it in album titles: the best of ‘Lionheart’ and ‘The Inner Sanctum’. Following a more than 30 year long career, Saxon still stands at the heavy-metal forefront. After 6 years, once again on stage in the AB.

So while Saxon gets catalogued under the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, that also happens to be one of the movements that inspires the American band Iced Earth . They mix it to their heart's content with trash-metal and progressive-metal, call it a cross between Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Metallica and Testament. Their most recent albums were concepts, the latest one too: titled ‘The Crucible of Man (Something Wicked Part 2)’. This is now their tenth studio album. Following a well-received visit to Graspop this summer, Iced Earth return to Belgium for an indoor concert.

Interview Biff Byford

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