After their first significant hiatus, the members of
Saxon (including new drummer
Nigel Glockler) returned to the studio to work on
Power & the Glory, an album which sounds like it was recorded in a tin can, albeit a very large one. The title track shows some promise, but it's all downhill from there, culminating in the six-minute-plus, strangely prog-metal sounds of "The Eagle Has Landed." There is also a noticeable lyrical shift towards "dungeons and dragons" themes, though the band had the sense of retaining at least one song about bikes in "Redline." ~ Eduardo Rivadavia