Hails!
An interview with Blaze Bayley about his new slab of darkness can be found here:
http://www.bravewords.com/features/1000711
And a review of Promise And Terror is available at the link below. An excerpt for your amusement
For the record, I was one of those people that bitched and screamed and wondered what the hell Blaze Bayley had done to my Iron Maiden when he stepped in to replace Bruce Dickinson in 1995. Never mind that Steve Harris had slammed head first into a writers block and couldnt pen his way out of a paper bag at the time; as the new pipes in the Church Of Ed the unfortunate Bayley took the lions share of abuse for The X-Factor and Virtual XI. The fact hed torn up some decent stretches of road in fine fashion with Wolfsbane prior to his tenure didnt help matters. His firing from Maiden in 98 was a blessing in more ways than one, however, because from my first time through his Blaze debut Silicon Messiah in 2000 Bayley came off as a talented, driven and even charismatic vocalist. The very last thing his detractors had expected. Hes held the course for the past decade, through five solo albums and a swamp of professional and personal issues, leading him to put out the finest work of his career thus far on Promise And Terror.
The whole thing is here:
http://carlbegai.com/2010/02/02/blaze-bayley-promise-and-terror/
Cheers!
An interview with Blaze Bayley about his new slab of darkness can be found here:
http://www.bravewords.com/features/1000711
And a review of Promise And Terror is available at the link below. An excerpt for your amusement
For the record, I was one of those people that bitched and screamed and wondered what the hell Blaze Bayley had done to my Iron Maiden when he stepped in to replace Bruce Dickinson in 1995. Never mind that Steve Harris had slammed head first into a writers block and couldnt pen his way out of a paper bag at the time; as the new pipes in the Church Of Ed the unfortunate Bayley took the lions share of abuse for The X-Factor and Virtual XI. The fact hed torn up some decent stretches of road in fine fashion with Wolfsbane prior to his tenure didnt help matters. His firing from Maiden in 98 was a blessing in more ways than one, however, because from my first time through his Blaze debut Silicon Messiah in 2000 Bayley came off as a talented, driven and even charismatic vocalist. The very last thing his detractors had expected. Hes held the course for the past decade, through five solo albums and a swamp of professional and personal issues, leading him to put out the finest work of his career thus far on Promise And Terror.
The whole thing is here:
http://carlbegai.com/2010/02/02/blaze-bayley-promise-and-terror/
Cheers!
