Milos Milosavljevic why did blaze leave the band?

I can only tell you my perception. As you can notice, Bruce's voice on his last two studio albums before he departed Maiden, No prayer for the dying and Fear of the dark, was really damaged. His singing was not that crisp and high pitched like it used to be on previous albums. Long tourings were destroying his voice. And his first solo album Tatooed millionaire was excepted extremelly well by the fans. So, I gues that he needed a brake, to recover his voice and to pursue his solo career. But I guess that there were also more things to it, tension between him and Steve. Steve then hired an english born singer, he insisted on that. Normal thing would be for the rest of the band, to adjust everything to the singing style and vocal range of Blaze. Just a reminder - Blaze is barritone and Bruce is tennor. Steve had more other choices, regarding singers which were close to Bruce's vocal range. He went for Blaze, anyway. So this is kinda unprofessional from his side. So, Blaze was expected to sing Bruce's songs and it was destroying his voice. He was embarrased because he wasn't backed up by the rest of the band. It seems to me that he was used deliberately, to be there, until Bruce returns. So, it happened eventyally. I heard in one interview that Blaze had plans for future Maiden album and that he even wrote Blood brothers and Dream of mirrors. Wow! I don't think that he left because he wanted. They just used him as a bypass for Bruce. Nevertheless, Blaze is a good guy, that event did not leave him bitter and angry. He made some great solo albums

They got rid of Blaze because of albums not selling for the reasons you iterated which was also fulled by the ban not showing strong support in front of fan's confusion. It looked like the band thought they could put anyone and fans wold be "grateful". I thought Blaze's 2 albums with Iron Maiden would have been a bigger success if the name Iron Maiden was not written on them. I believe Steve selected Blaze because he is English, he is scary (good for metal) and because he has a great voice, and the rumor has it that the demos used to make the decision were not actually Iron Maiden songs but Blaze's own material, and as you said Steve thought this would work somehow but it did not (usually baritone voices could actually sing tenor songs because they do overlap). The real winner here is Bruce because he has established himself as the sine-qua-none ingredient for success and he effectively became as dominant as Steve while before the break he was always one foot behind.

_The X Factor_ was a nice change of pace from their two previous albums at the time. _Virtual XI_ was a step down due to _Angel and..._, but the rest of the tracks are pretty great. But holy hell, did the production suck on those two albums! And the band wasn't even trying their best to make great albums with Blaze. The only one who was trying was Blaze, and he was being dragged by Maiden. It's like they wanted to make less-than-decent albums on purpose or something. I have a feeling they were. Another problem I have with _The X Factor_ is the gross cover art. Some hand-drawn Eddie would've been nice. Also, I've always wondered why their albums with Blaze aren't named after one of the tracks in the album. 4+ years of being treated unfairly and singing less-than-great new material like this track. I would've loved to hear _Blood Brothers_, _Dream of Mirrors_, _The Mercanary_ and _The Nomad_ sung by Blaze on _Virtual XI_, although with a better album name and better production

Milos finally some people understand the truth. You are 100% in my mind. Blaze has made amazing albums after Maiden

completely agree, I love this song

@@mutate34 so do I, there was a lot of incredible songs written and performed in this era and I must confess I love the voice of Blaze, in the Maiden, maybe even more in his solo career...

@@susannewilliamsson8339 I grew up near Blaze's hometown and I still have not seen him live yet, but i want to

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It deafly looks like a happy moment for the band. You can always forgive that this kind of material makes them sound a bit small time.

@@j_freed sound a bit small ?? Have you heard the masterpiece album the X-Factor ??

As Bruce says it's Harris to blame hahaha

@@turiramsay5600 unfortunately it is but somehow I think he regrets his major mistakes now, wouldn´t you ??

Dave L If it was shorter I would probably like it a lot more. Even if the lyrics were still repetitive, as long as they don’t repeat for too long I don’t have a problem with it. It would be similar lyrically to running free.

@@fooball4589 there was a 6 minute version of this song I found and I considder that the definitive way to listen to this song.

They did this fade. As the VXI-tour went on, they cutted the song. First gig: full version. Middle: one verse off. Last gig: fades to Janick solo.

The X Factor is in my top 5 all time Maiden albums.

@@chaosapiant as I think you understand, it is in my top five aswell, maybe even in my top three..

could I be his Angel too...........I love your comment btw...

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It is

Steve made a ton of bad decision on virtual xi

Cause it's so fucking good

Not only that, they released it as a single and then played it live at every show for a year!

@@Tallinn8786 Steve messed up a bit. Rod wanted futureal to be the first single but Harris put his foot down and insisted on this silly song being the first single. He also decided to make the album version nine minutes which was bizarre. The four minute version is fun. Also the ridiculous repitition on Don't look eyes of a stranger was weird. And his production wasn't good either. Then they had the weird football tie in to the album and it all seemed like it was destined to fail. Shame as I like the album

Martha Stubbs rod was right futureal the best song on this very poor album imo

Correct

come on it's not a pop song. seriously? it is more catchy, commercial and lighter than their usual material, but that's exactly the reason to call it a rock song. when heavy metal softens it becomes more rock. when rock softens(too much) it becomes pop

the short version with the official video is great. i think it's 4 minutes or something like that. honestly AATG would've been a great song if there wasn't so much repeating. the instrumental is awesome the lyrics themselves and vocals are great. just too much repeating of the same lyric and not enough of other lyrics.

@@WastedYears76 the four minute music video version was the right length

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gold not God. Sorry but Jesus Christ is God .

blaze888883 in terms of metal singing, or any singing for that matter he´s an ACE !!

Blaze Bayley - Gods Of Metal kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b5t3jctyv7Cof5c.html minute 0:51 ;)

Haha 3 year old comment but legendary lmao!

Ruim comparado com o Bruce, kkkkkkk.

Not Blaze is good

​@@CiceroSantiagobrasiliaessa foi boa kkkkkk

Quite an imagination you have there.

@@thefonzkiss it is exactly what blaze said in his biography called At the end of the day. .

He is strumming with his fingers

Dylan Willis Are you sure? I can't see very well on this video and I'm not a musician so it is hard to know only by listening. If so.. yeah, then he only uses his fingers. Glad I was right before.

Maybe he does but look up Blood on the World's Hands live. He strums with his fingers there and the style looks identical to this style on this song.

+Thiago Faro he absolutely 100% uses his fingers. When he plays power chords he uses the nails on his hand. I copy his technique when I play. In many songs you will often see him switch between strumming chords and plucking with his fingers.

actually steve is having fun...

@ ALL of them are, they are having the time of their life !! Have you EVER seen them as relaxed as here ??

Penis

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JAIME LESTER and for that reason, I envy you, BIG TIME....

no not the lowest point. blazes albums were great. my personal worst album would be TNOTB

Financially, and commercially it was by far their lowest point, seperate yourself and your personaly opinions because VXI is still the only IM album to not ship at least 1 million copies, and the subsiquent tour was the worst drawing in the history of the band, objectively speaking, it was their lowest point.

Marin Hrabrić are you fucking kidding me. You think this, *THIS* is better than the number of the beast. Get the fuck out.

While The Number of the Beast has those undying classics like Run to the Hills, the title song and Hallowed be thy Name, that's all it really has going for it. Most of the other songs are just filler.

ZealSeraph That is true, however number of the beast’s filler is at least competent. Other than the opening track Virtual XI’s tracks are terrible, and not even close to how even some of the worst songs ok number of the beast were.

Tao Zen really ???? Listen to it one more time and please, pay attention to the lyrics, not the repetitive chorus but the meaning.....

susanne williamsson there are lyrics aside from the chorus? All I hear is the chorus 999999999 times

The Ángel and the gambler is good song

Como Estáis Amigos is the worst

it’s most likely not nicko on drums, apparently he couldn’t stand to be near blaze so he didn’t play on virtual xi (i don’t know about the x factor) but they really didn’t get along

umberto hans ...se non la peggiore siamo vicini...