Released June 24, 1985 Producer Simon Hanhart Release date 24 June 1985 Genre Heavy metal | Length 42:05 Artist Saxon Label EMI | |
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Recorded Union Studios, Munich, Germany Innocence Is No Excuse
(1985) Rock the Nations
(1986) Similar Saxon albums, Heavy metal albums | ||
Innocence Is No Excuse is the seventh studio album by heavy metal band Saxon released in 1985 (see 1985 in music). It was the group's first album for EMI after a falling-out with their previous label, Carrere Records, and their last with original bassist Steve Dawson.
Contents
Saxon innocence is no excuse full album 1985
Release and reception
The song "Everybody Up" was used in the 1985 Italian horror movie Demoni.
The album was given a generally positive review by Eduardo Rivadavia of AllMusic, who awarded it four out of five stars. Although he commented in his review for the band's previous album Crusader that this album "would only lead to greater extremes of personality disorder and leave the group's fan base confused and utterly divided", he praised it for being "their strongest collective set of songs since 1981's Denim and Leather" although acknowledged that some of the songs "rubbed many fans the wrong way". He singled out the songs "Back On the Streets", "Rock 'n' Roll Gypsy" and "Broken Heroes" for praise, the latter of which he described as an "excellent ballad". He also pondered the question of what price the album had to the band's "street-level credibility" and said that "The answer will never be agreed upon". Martin Popoff, author of The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal, reviewed negatively the album which represents for Saxon the return "full-steam to the bastions of metal, without an idea in their dust-clouded heads", as shown in the clichéd titles and in the "old age ineptness on this rule-book headbanging fare."
Track listing
Personnel
Production
Charts
Album
Songs
1Rockin' Again5:14
2Call of the Wild4:04
3Back on the Streets4:00