new Blaze

[Blitzkrieg]

A video of a new Blaze song performed live can be viewed here:

http://www.blazefans.com/index.php?url=video_sinbysin.htm

Be warned, it is probably the worst sound I have ever heard on a bootleg. So distorted you can't even hear what is going on...but it sounds like it could be cool.

I look forward to the new album. Blaze is great.

He seems to have put on a few pounds since I last saw him, and the fans let him know about it too.

 

[Southy]

Blaze has slowly been weighing himself down since the first album

 

[Spiff]

You know, of all the lyricists working today, I rank Blaze up there with the very best. Sure, pretty much all of his songs are about how They are holding you down and stuff, but they still rule.

Here's a top song he wrote from the Blood & Belief album called Will To Win:

Forget about what you think you know about your life
What would you have if you could have what you want
People don't even know they're truly alive
They're just sleep walking
Things unimportant to you, just let them slide
Then wake up fighting

All of them fear what they do not know
All of that fear they pour unto you

You have the will to win
The courage to fight
To get through anything

The will to win

Believe you can beat them down and rise above
Those bastards will hate you for what you want to be
They are the noose and the millstone you must survive
They're self defeating
They try and make you an outcast, a freak and a fool
So fuck them!

All of them fear what they do not know
All of that fear they pour unto you

You have the will to win
The courage to fight
To get through anything

You have the will to win
The courage to fight
The will to win

You can fold this word into a shape
A thing that will fit in your mind
Your own reality reflecting your dream
Reflecting the world that's inside

You can fold this word into a shape
A thing that will fit in your mind

Forget about what you think you know about your life
What would you have if you could have what you want
People don't even know they're truly alive
They're just sleep walking
Things unimportant to you, just let them slide
Wake up fighting

All of them fear what they do not know
All of that fear they pour unto you

You have the will to win
The courage to fight
To get through anything

You have the will to win
The courage to fight
The will to win

 

[TinMan666]

Blaze is still the Messiah!

Can't wait for the new one!

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Will To Win is the only song off of Blood & Belief that I am not impressed with. It is using the same formula as Speed Of Light and Leap Of Faith from Tenth Dimension, which in turn use the same formula as The Brave and The Launch from Silicon Messiah. The fast paced songs on the first album were the best, the others just seem like tired attempts to capture the same vibe. The songs themselves are great, but it just seems like you have heard it all before. I would rather listen to The Brave and The Launch any day.

Other than that though, Blaze fucking rules.

 

[Spiff]

I love Will To Win. Probably my favourite song from Blood & Belief (an album which I'm not all that fond of).

 

[Blitzkrieg]

I really love the album, with Will To Win annoying me for the reasons I said above, despite it being a great song. Hollow Head is a bit silly too, but it isn't shit. The rest of the album slays. Regret, Ten Seconds, Tearing Yourself To Pieces, Life And Death, all fucking awesome.

 

[Spiff]

The Path and the Way rules too, mainly because of its subject matter. And that it's a rockin' song.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

 

[Southy]

Blood and Belief is the only Blaze album that took me a little to get into, but it is an ace as fuck album

 

[TinMan666]

I rate Blood & Belief as one of the best albums ever.

I'm spewing that line up split up, but I'll give the new band a chance. Blaze has never let me down before so I don't expect him to this time.

Now... if you had Blaze + ME, that would be the best.

 

[Mark]

Well get on that shit, Tinny!

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Yeah, the guitar team of Slater and Wray was a killer one, so I hope the new line up can still deliver.

 

[Spruce Goose]

I only have Silicon Messiah which I like but haven't pumped for a while.
Stare at the Sun is the bestest.

How many more BLAZE albums are there?

 

[Blitzkrieg]

2. Tenth Dimension is the second album, and Blood And Belief is the third. Both are fantastic, and well worth a look into if you were a fan of Silicon Messiah.

There is also a live album which I am yet to pick up. Spiff will let you know what he thinks of that one.

 

[Spiff]

The live album is very good. Unfortunately, Blaze's between-song banter is average at best and embarrassing at worst. Witness his intro to When Two Worlds Collide, which smacks of the worst Christmas panto.

Blaze: "Steve over there thinks he's louder than you!"

Deafening silence, then....

Crowd: "Boo!"

 

[Icarus]

As bad as Matt Barlows banter on alive in athens?

Lets all go to the desert...and watch the rain come falling down....this ones called....desert rain.

Good one Matty, good one.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Matt's banter is cheesey metal at its best. Some classic quotes on AIA.

 

[MeKaChrOme]

Stare at the Sun rules. Blood and Belief is an okay album, but there's something about teh sound I can't get into.. it's as if it's muddy or something.

 

[The Amazer]

As bad as Matt Barlows banter on alive in athens?

Lets all go to the desert...and watch the rain come falling down....this ones called....desert rain.

Good one Matty, good one.

Was he playing "try your best to be like Hansi Kursch" ?