They were on CMC International in the U.S. per Discogs, and I can’t find any indication that the release date was any different. AI search summaries say simultaneous world release, though I couldn’t find anything specifically calling out the March 23, 1998 release date for the U.S. version.
In my opinion, Infinite Entanglement, Circle of Stone, and The Man Who Would Not Die are stronger albums than Blaze's first three releases. If your main reason for listening to artists is the size of the venues they play or commercial success, then perhaps Taylor Swift or Harry Styles would be more up your alley.
I saw maiden in a smalln football stadium in the middle of spain and bruce in his best tour in a small venue for 800 people and many other powermetal bands in small venues that is not the reason. But maiden is different,no?
You've completely misrepresented my post for starters.
Yeah me too blaze last year in a PUB.
Well, you misunderstood the thread. It’s not about the commercial success of a third Blaze Bayley album, it’s about the potential musical output.
Of course. But I was responding to Katala's post specifically.
That's really cool. He's very down to earth
Well its a famous madrid bar. Also there is live concerts for small bands. I saw blaze there
He changed to Blaze Bayley after his entire original band left, and he had to get a new band. He rationalized the name change because he said people didn't know he was doing any new music under the rather vague Blaze name, and things improved after the name change for a while. There was also incompetent management at the time of The Man Who Would Not Die and Promise and Terror, and after that, he hit his lowest point with King of Metal, where he had no band whatsoever and hooked up with local bands in the area he was playing and had them backing him so he was only flying himself. And yep, several albums ago he got Absolva to write/record with him and back him live.
I remember the first 2 albums were good. The show i saw was a bit sad. that the versions or the show were a bit "simple" in some songs
What happened with nicko?
The first three are pretty solid, I think. TMWWNT had some good stuff, and some filler. I cannot for the life of me get into anything on Promise and Terror, but others love it. King of Metal, like I said, was the low point. Since hooking up with Absolva, it's been good, but not as consistently good songwriting-wise as that first lineup. And yeah, Absolva's not musically brilliant, they're...fine. Still, hooking up with them was probably the best thing that could've realistically happened to him at this late stage in his career.
The story is, Nicko went to Steve with some soundboard tapes near the end of the tour, and basically showed him how well (or not) Blaze was singing. Steve notoriously doesn't have the best hearing, so I imagine Nicko played it for him assuming Steve thought everything was fine live. If I had to guess, Nick was probably fed up with the direction with Blaze--maybe playing to smaller crowds, getting bad reviews, etc.--and wanted a change.
Yep. Nicko wanted to get the eff outta there!
Thats what i felt. The versions were a bit simple. Some of them, becasuse the clansman sounded great i remember