Jimmy Kay and Alan Dixon from Canada’s The Metal Voice recently spoke to former Iron Maiden Vocalist Blaze Bayley about his new, first of three albums (concept trilogy) and his upcoming tour.
When asked about the story behind the new concept album ‘Infinite Entanglement’
“I think this is a really big story, so I started thinking about it like Dune and Lord of the Rings and if I was going to do something like that then it will be done in three albums. This is album is part one of a trilogy. And the story is told across three albums.”
“To keep it very simple it’s about a man who does not know if he is human, It’s set 100 years in the future and he is on a spaceship and it’s how he deals with the fact that he will be one of the first people ever to live for 1000 years because of the advances in technology. And the question, is he human or not? And the story expands from there. Everything is not what it seems and he has been chosen for the mission. It’s a mystery, horror set in space and this is part 1.”
One his thoughts about writing a concept album
“I really wanted to do something like War of the Worlds style and Operation Mindcrime. I wanted it so as a listener you can enjoy each song without knowing the story but if you want to look at the sleeve notes, if you wanted to get deeper into it, you can see the connection. I would like something that I can listen to 100 times. I want to create that Holy Diver, the Black Sabbath, Heaven and Hell, the Iron Maiden The Number of the beast, I want to create one of those classics and each time I create an album that’s what I want to do.”
On his release date for the second and third albums
“We have half of the of album for two written and we have some of the music and one of the songs for number three. As we go along on tour and I am writing the rest of the story, then we will come up with the rest of the songs.”
On his plans to release this story in a book format
“I’m planning a book, its will be with album three, the book will come out but it will be a limited edition just for the fans.”
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