Ex-IRON MAIDEN vocalist Blaze Bayley is featured in a new interview with Greece-based RockPages.gr. An excerpt is available below.

Rockpages.gr: Just when I thought that Blood And Belief” was the most introspective album of your career, you released The Man Who Would Not Die that it may have sounded optimistic but from a lyrical point of view it dealt with some very personal issues…

Blaze Bayley: The Man Who Would Not Die came after a break…I had released Blood and Belief which was a very important and honest record. I was suffering a lot from depression at the time and actually The Man Who Would Not Die was about my revenge and not being a victim of the circumstances. I had big problems with SPV; they lied to me, cheated me…they still owe me money. So, I said that if I would do another album, I’d release it through my own label. I’ve always believed in the fans. If the fans know about your music, if you play from your heart, they will support you. But, as it happens most of the times, the business side gets in the way. You sign a deal with a label and at the end of the day you have 50 people putting money in their pockets from your work and the fans’ support and the last person that gets paid is actually you! It should always be about the artist and the fans and not some guys with suits that don’t even care about you. So, I decided to do my own label and a lot of the songs in The Man Who Would Not Die follow a theme…the revenge, the refusal to give up, because right before the album I was completely on my own, I had no band together, I had nothing happening for me at all…so, The Man Who Would Not Die is about me saying to the label that I am not gonna die and I will always play music to my fans. That’s all that really matters."

"The last couple of years, I’ve been really lucky because I travel throughout the world, playing my own music and having a great time with the band and the fans. The whole idea right from the beginning was that we won’t make any big stage plans but we will try to stick on the road and play for as many fans as possible to every single corner in the world. It’s about the music and the show and we honestly try to give 100% to every show of the Blaze Bayley Band."

Go to this location for the complete interview.

Bayley's new studio album, Promise And Terror, will be released via Blaze Bayley Recordings on February 1st and distributed by Plastic Head.

A new teaser clip called 'God Of Speed' is available below:

The accompanying World tour kicks off at JB’s in Dudley, UK on February 6th. European and South American tour dates have now been confirmed and further dates and countries will be announced shortly.

Promise And Terror tracklisting:

'Watching The Night Sky'

'Madness And Sorrow'

'1633'

'God Of Speed'

'City Of Bones'

'Faceless'

'Time To Dare'

'Surrounded By Sadness'

'The Trace Of Things That Have No Words'

'Letting Go Of The World'

'Comfortable In Darkness'