{"id":50551,"date":"2015-10-29T14:33:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T19:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/?p=50551"},"modified":"2015-12-30T09:17:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T14:17:45","slug":"video-interview-biff-byford-of-saxon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/2015\/video-interview-biff-byford-of-saxon\/","title":{"rendered":"Biff Byford of Saxon"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">by Steve Patrick<\/span><br \/>\n&#8211; Senior Columnist &#8212;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Saxon-2015-band.jpg\" alt=\"Saxon 2015 band\" width=\"862\" height=\"429\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Saxon-2015-band.jpg 862w, https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Saxon-2015-band-350x174.jpg 350w, https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Saxon-2015-band-500x249.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 862px) 100vw, 862px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the months leading up to the October 30th North American release date of their latest studio album <em>Battering Ram<\/em>, U.K. Metal legends Saxon toured the States alongside the likes of Mot\u00f6rhead and Armored Saint. <\/p>\n<p>Frontman Biff Byford took a few moments to chat with Hardrock Haven about the new record before the band&#8217;s show at the Agora Ballroom in Cleveland, OH on September 18. In the interview, Byford discusses his first encounters with tour mates Armored Saint, working with producer Andy Sneap, filming the &#8220;Battering Ram&#8221; music video, and a possible return of Saxon to the US in the spring of 2016:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"HardrockHaven.net interview with Biff Byford from Saxon\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NNZTdDu0BDc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saxon747.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.saxon747.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Videography: Justin DelPrince]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">by Steve Patrick &#8211; Senior Columnist &#8212; In the months leading up to the October 30th North American release date of their latest studio album Battering Ram, U.K. Metal legends Saxon toured the States alongside <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/2015\/video-interview-biff-byford-of-saxon\/\" title=\"Biff Byford of Saxon\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":50555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12393],"tags":[11821,11111,11820,11301,203,2733,2250],"class_list":{"0":"post-50551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arcint2015","8":"tag-andy-sneap","9":"tag-armored-saint","10":"tag-battering-ram","11":"tag-biff-byford","12":"tag-interview","13":"tag-saxon","14":"tag-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}