‘Infinite Entanglement’

PHOTOCREDIT: ALEC KING

Following a busy summer festival schedule where Blaze Bayley has played his Iron Maiden 25th anniversary setlist, the West-Midlands singer has today released a 9 minute epic lyric video for the song ‘Eagle Spirit’ – the concluding track from his ‘Infinite Entanglement’ trilogy of albums. The trilogy was released consecutively in March of 2016, 2017 and 2018.

https://youtu.be/72qeK22YfmM

Blaze has been touring relentlessly to promote the trilogy, following up with a double live album and DVD release in March 2019 entitled ‘Live in France’. After worldwide shows in the first half of 2019, covering Latin America, North America, Europe and UK, Blaze has taken the opportunity to celebrate the 25th anniversary of him joining Iron Maiden as singer. The celebration has been marked with a series of summer festivals playing an Iron Maiden setlist with songs taken exclusively from his two albums with Maiden – X Factor and Virtual XI.

Substantial praise has been received for Blaze and his band –

Sweden Rock magazine (at Sweden Rock Festival) – “Blaze’s band is tight and punchy. 9/10”

Powerplay magazine (at Rock The Coast Festival, Spain) – “a winning set.. the first notable highlight of the weekend”

Rock Hard magazine (at Headbangers Open Air, Germany) – “if two Rock Hard employees are shedding tears of joy, then something very special must have happened.. the Birmingham fighter has always been a frontman of world-class calibre”

Blaze is currently touring the UK on his ‘Tour of the Eagle Spirit’, with the flagship show at London, Underworld this coming Saturday 31st August. After a very short break he heads off to Europe for 13 shows in Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Czech Republic. The 2 nights in Brno, Czech Republic, will be recorded for a further double live album and DVD. After that, Blaze heads to France to play 4 more Maiden anniversary shows, then a trip to play shows in Greece in December will round off a busy year.

Ticketlinks for all the upcoming shows are available now via the official website at http://www.blazebayley.net/tour.htm

Caja de Pandora radio describing the show at Rock The Coast Festival….

“I cannot find words to describe the presentation of Blaze Bayley, many factors made it one of the best concerts ever…. pure metal-ecstasy in its maximum expression”

PHOTOCREDIT: MARK APPLETON, TAKEN AT THE BEAUTIFUL SETTING OF ROCK THE COAST FESTIVAL, FUENGIROLA, SPAIN

The full schedule for the remainder of 2019 is as follows

August
29 Junction, Plymouth, UK
30 Cobblestones, Bridgwater, UK
31 Underworld, London, UK
September
12 De Meister, Geleen, Netherlands
13 7er Club, Mannheim, Germany
14 Come Inn, Renchen, Germany
15 Come Inn, Renchen, Germany
16 Rockcafe Backstage, Konstanz, Germany
19 MTS, Oldenburg, Germany
20 Bastard Club, Osnabruck, Germany
21 Kulturrampe, Krefeld, Germany
22 Kulturrampe, Krefeld, Germany
26 Graffiti Club, Lublin, Poland
27 Underground, Tychy, Poland
28 Melodka, Brno, Czech Republic (recording live album & DVD)
29 Melodka, Brno, Czech Republic (recording live album & DVD)
October
2 Blue Devils, Orleans, France (Maiden 25th Anniversary set)
3 Rock n Eat, Lyon, France (Maiden 25th Anniversary set)
4 Rising Fest, Dijon, France (Maiden 25th Anniversary set)
5 British Steel Saturday, Fismes, France (Maiden 25th Anniversary set)
December
4 Eightball Club, Thessaloniki, Greece
7 Athens, Temple, Greece

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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.”

Watch the whole interview here