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Two line-ups of Blaze in 2007 and 2017
This is a list of the band members associated with English heavy metal musician Blaze Bayley.
| | This article relies largely or entirely on a single source .(April 2017) |
This is a list of the band members associated with English heavy metal musician Blaze Bayley.
| Image | Name | Years active | Instruments | Release contributions |
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| Blaze Bayley | 1999–present | vocals | all releases | |
| Chris Appleton |
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| all releases from Live in Prague (DVD release only) (2014) onwards | |
| Luke Appleton |
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| Martin McNee | 2013–present | drums | ||
| Karl Schramm | 2014–present |
| all releases from Infinite Entanglement (2016) onwards |
| Image | Name | Years active | Instruments | Release contributions |
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| John Slater | 1999–2004 | guitars |
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| Steve Wray | ||||
| Rob Naylor | 1999–2003 | bass |
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| Jeff Singer | drums | |||
| Phil Greenhouse | 2003 | none | ||
| Wayne Banks | 2003–2004 | bass | Blood & Belief (2004) | |
| Jason Bowld | 2004 | drums | ||
| Oliver Palotai | 2004–2007 | guitars | none | |
| Luca Princiotta | ||||
| Daniel Löble | 2004–2005 | drums | ||
| Nick Douglas | bass | |||
| Christian Ammann | 2005–2007 | |||
| Daniel Schild | drums | |||
| David Bermudez | 2007–2011 | bass |
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| Nicolas Bermudez | guitars | |||
| Rich Newport | 2007 | Alive in Poland (2007) | ||
| Rico Banderra | drums | |||
| Jay Walsh | 2007–2011 | guitars |
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| Lawrence Paterson | 2007–2010 | drums | ||
| Claudio Tirincanti | 2010–2012 |
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| Dave Andrews | 2011 | guitars | none | |
| Steve Deleu | ||||
| Nick Meganck | bass | Live in Prague (DVD release only) (2014) | ||
| Thomas Zwijsen | 2012 | guitars |
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| Andrea Neri | The King of Metal (2012) | |||
| Matteo Lehmann | bass | |||
| Dan Bate | 2013–2014 | Live in Prague (DVD release only) (2014) |
| B L A Z E (March 1999 – January 2003) |
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| B L A Z E (January – April 2003) |
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| B L A Z E (April 2003 – December 2003) |
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| B L A Z E (January 2004 – September 2004) |
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| B L A Z E (October 2004 – December 2005) |
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| B L A Z E (December 2005 – January 2007) |
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| Blaze Bayley band (March 2007 – October 2007) |
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| Blaze Bayley Band (November 2007 – April 2010) |
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| Blaze Bayley Band (April 2010 – March 2011) |
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| Blaze Bayley (March 2011 – December 2011) |
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| Blaze Bayley (January 2012 – December 2012) |
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| Blaze Bayley (December 2013 – November 2014) |
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From 2016, Blaze joined former Queensryche singer Geoff Tate and former Judas Priest vocalist Tim Owens in the touring project "Trinity"
In 2015 the four singer toured South America together
From 2012, former Iron Maiden singers Blaze Bayley and Paul Di'Anno started a partnership doing some co-headlining tours and sharing the same roster of musicians.
- Russian Federation and occasionally Scandinavia:
- For their Australia/New Zealand tour Bayley and Di'Anno shared Australian musicians:
- For the Scandinavian gigs and occasionally Great Britain:
- For some Italian and French gigs the two singers have been backed by official Iron Maiden tribute band Children of the Damned from Italy:
In 2015 Blaze started a cooperation with US-Italian band Twin Dragons with the shows "Metal vs Blues Rock", with these musicians:
- Starting from 2013 Bayley hit the stage for brief US tours with an all star project named The Foundry, involving members of Disturbed, Adrenaline Mob, Danzig, Black Simphony, Scorpions, Fates Warning and Twisted Sisters:
- In Mexico 2016 he has been backed by metal band Overfire:
- In Canadian Tour of September 2016 his musicians were from bands Insurgent Inc and Maiden Québec.
- In Canadian tour of October 2014 he was backed by Maiden Québec:
- In the US tour of 2011 the singer performed with the following band:
- In most of South American tours Blaze (initially with Zwijsen) has been backed by musicians of "The Best Maiden Tribute" and Tailgunners from Brazil:
- In Argentina 2016 he used two different bands:
- In Colombia 2016 with the band ADS:
- In Chle 2016 has been backed by the band Genghis Khan:
- For acoustic touring Blaze recently involved those musicians:
- In September 2014, celebrating 20 years after joining Iron Maiden, he toured with a special set with this band from Slovakia:
- For the Italian summer tour of 2011, soon after the dissolution of Blaze Bayley Band, the singer has occasionally performed with the following lineup:
- In March 2013 the line-up was:
- In one festival in France of 2012 Neil, bandmate of Lehmann in Neurasthenia, has performed on guitars as stand-in for Andrea Neri
- Bayley occasionally performed full shows with the bands Seven (Czech Republic), Trooper (Romania), John Steel (Bulgaria), Hammerheart (Slovakia), Apsent (Turkey, first gig ever after the dissolution of Blaze Bayley Band), Lunar Explosion and Flash of The Blade (Italy) [1]
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