Blaze Bayley Interview

"They said “Bruce is coming back and you’re going”. It absolutely killed me."

Blaze Bayley, proud owner of the only Elvis sideburns in metal, is back with a new album, to be released very soon, so we gave him a call to see how things are going.

As you probably remember, Blaze was Bruce Dickinson's replacement in Iron Maiden, releasing two albums with them, "The X Factor" and "Virtual XI", both of which are considered, by some critics, as some of Iron Maiden's weakest releases.

After his departure, however, Blaze didn't simply retire. He has been producing a lot of material, starting with "Silicon Messiah" in 2000, and then with "The Tenth Dimension" (2002), "Blood and Belief" (2004 ), "The Man Who Would Not Die" (2008) and "Promise and terror" (2010), as well as two live albums, "As Live as it Gets" (2003) and "The Night that will Not Die" in 2009. Although his solo work has been very well received by critics, Blaze Bayley has failed to achieve the popularity that he deserves.