Former IRON MAIDEN singer Blaze Bayley will release his new solo album, “Circle Of Stone”, on February 23
The official music video for the LP’s title track, featuring a guest appearance by Niklas Stålvind of the Swedish metal band WOLF, can be seen below.
Blaze Bayley says: “I wish to thank especially Niklas Stålvind of Swedish band WOLF for his wonderful performance adding vocals to this song, the guys at Lion Island Media for their brilliant work shooting & editing the video, & my backing band ABSOLVA for their dedication & talent, including my co-producer Christopher Appleton. Thanks also to Paul Hume (owner) & Dean Cowan (sound engineer) from Eleven (Stoke-on-Trent, England) who were kind enough to let us shoot the video at their fine venue.”
Blaze Bayley “Circle Of Stone” track listing:
01. Mind Reader
02. Tears In Rain
03. Rage
04. The Year Beyond This Year
05. Ghost In The Bottle
06. The Broken Man
07. The Call Of The Ancestors
08. Circle Of Stone (feat. Niklas Stålvind)
09. Absence
10. A Day Of Reckoning
11. The Path Of The Righteous Man
12. Until We Meet Again
From 1994 to 1999, Blaze Bayley, now 60 years old, took the helm for IRON MAIDEN. The albums he contributed to, namely “The X Factor” and “Virtual XI,” experienced lower sales compared to the band’s previous works and marked their lowest-charting releases in the UK since 1981’s “Killers.”
Following his departure from IRON MAIDEN in 1999, Bayley embarked on a solo career, releasing numerous albums, some under the alias BLAZE and others under his own name. Notably, he featured on WOLFSBANE‘s 2012 album “Wolfsbane Saves The World,” the band’s first new material since their 1994 self-titled effort. A subsequent release, “Genius,” followed in 2022.
Blaze‘s most recent studio offering, “War Within Me,” hit the shelves in April 2021. The recording process took place in 2020, with Blaze dividing his work between his West Midlands home studio and Christopher Appleton‘s studio in Greater Manchester.