The Inner Sanctum
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The Inner Sanctum is the seventeenth album
Album
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 by the British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 band Saxon
Saxon (band)
Saxon are an English heavy metal band, formed in 1976 in Barnsley, Yorkshire. As front-runners of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, they had 8 UK Top 40 albums in the 1980s including 4 UK Top 10 albums. Saxon also had numerous singles in the Top 20 singles chart...

, released on March 5, 2007. A limited edition with DVD is available too.

The single version of "I've Got to Rock (to Stay Alive)" features guest appearances by heavy metal musicians Lemmy Kilmister
Lemmy Kilmister
Ian Fraser "Lemmy" Kilmister is an English heavy metal musician....

, Angry Anderson
Angry Anderson
Gary Stephen "Angry" Anderson AM is an Australian rock singer, television presenter/reporter, actor and conservative political activist. He is best known as the vocalist with the hard rock band Rose Tattoo since 1976 but he is also recognised for his acting roles and his charity work...

 and Andi Deris
Andi Deris
Andreas "Andi" Deris is the vocalist and the main songwriter for power metal band Helloween, and co-founder and former lead singer of German melodic metal band Pink Cream 69...

.

Track listing

(All songs written by Byford, Quinn, Glockler, Carter, Scarratt; all lyrics by Byford)

(*) Only in the standard edition

A Night Out with the Boys (DVD)

  1. "To Hell and Back Again"
  2. "A Night Out with the Boys – The Idea"
  3. "A Night Out with the Boys – Not Really"
  4. "See the Light Shining"
  5. "A Night Out with the Boys – Now It Started"
  6. "Redline"
  7. "Suzie Hold On"
  8. "Stand Up and Be Counted"
  9. "Frozen Rainbow"
  10. "Never Surrender"

Lyrical concept

  1. "Red Star Falling" is about the end of communism
    Communism
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     in Soviet Union
    Soviet Union
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    .
  2. "Atila the Hun" is about Attila the Hun
    Attila the Hun
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    , who almost destroyed the Roman Empire
    Roman Empire
    The Roman Empire was the post-Republican period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....

    .
  3. "If I Was You" is about gun culture.
  4. "Let Me Feel Your Power" is about festivals like Wacken, which Saxon have headlined twice.
  5. "I've Got to Rock (to Stay Alive)" is about rock n' roll and life.

Credits

  • Biff Byford
    Biff Byford
    Peter Rodney "Biff" Byford is an English rock singer, best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Saxon. Byford formed Son of a Bitch with guitarists Graham Oliver and Paul Quinn, bassist Steve Dawson and drummer Pete Gill in 1976...

     - vocals
  • Paul Quinn
    Paul Quinn (guitarist)
    Paul Quinn is an English lead guitarist, and the founding member of the NWOBHM band, Saxon. Other than Biff Byford, Quinn is the only remaining member of Saxon's original line up, and is present on every Saxon release...

     - guitar
    Guitar
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  • Doug Scarratt - guitar
  • Nibbs Carter
    Nibbs Carter
    Timothy 'Nibbs' Carter , British born bassist for heavy metal band Saxon. He is the most enduring bass player in Saxon history, appearing on thirteen of their albums...

     - bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Nigel Glockler
    Nigel Glockler
    Nigel Glockler is an English drummer for the NWOBHM band, Saxon.His first professional musical experience was the UK band Krakatoa, followed by session work. He joined Toyah Willcox's band in late 1980...

     - drums
    Drum kit
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    , keyboard
    Keyboard instrument
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    s
  • Lemmy, Angry Anderson
    Angry Anderson
    Gary Stephen "Angry" Anderson AM is an Australian rock singer, television presenter/reporter, actor and conservative political activist. He is best known as the vocalist with the hard rock band Rose Tattoo since 1976 but he is also recognised for his acting roles and his charity work...

     and Andi Deris
    Andi Deris
    Andreas "Andi" Deris is the vocalist and the main songwriter for power metal band Helloween, and co-founder and former lead singer of German melodic metal band Pink Cream 69...

    - guest vocals on "I've Got to Rock (to Stay Alive)"
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