List of Blaze Bayley band members

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.

Main band

Current

Image	Name	Years active	Instruments	Release contributions
	Blaze Bayley	1999–present	vocals	all releases
	Chris Appleton	2009–2010 2013–present	lead and rhythm guitars backing vocals	all releases from Live in Prague (DVD release only) (2014) onwards
	Luke Appleton	2009–2010 2013–2014 2018–2019 2021–present	rhythm and lead guitars (since 2014) bass (2009–2010) backing vocals
	Martin McNee	2013–present	drums
	Karl Schramm	2014–present	bass backing vocals	all releases from Infinite Entanglement (2016) onwards

Former

Image	Name	Years active	Instruments	Release contributions
	John Slater	1999–2004	guitars	Silicon Messiah (2000) Tenth Dimension (2002) As Live as It Gets (2003) Blood & Belief (2004)
	Steve Wray
	Rob Naylor	1999–2003	bass	Silicon Messiah (2000) Tenth Dimension (2002) As Live as It Gets (2003)
	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	Alive in Poland (2007) The Man Who Would Not Die (2008) The Night That Would Not Die (2009) Promise and Terror (2010)
	Nicolas Bermudez		guitars
	Rich Newport	2007		Alive in Poland (2007)
	Rico Banderra		drums
	Jay Walsh	2007–2011	guitars	The Man Who Would Not Die (2008) The Night That Would Not Die (2009) Promise and Terror (2010)
	Lawrence Paterson	2007–2010	drums
	Claudio Tirincanti	2010–2012		The King of Metal (2012) Live in Prague (DVD release only) (2014)
	Dave Andrews	2011	guitars	none
	Steve Deleu
	Nick Meganck		bass	Live in Prague (DVD release only) (2014)
	Thomas Zwijsen	2012	guitars	The King of Metal (2012) Infinite Entanglement (2016) Endure and Survive – Infinite Entanglement Part II (2017)
	Andrea Neri			The King of Metal (2012)
	Matteo Lehmann		bass
	Dan Bate	2013–2014		Live in Prague (DVD release only) (2014)

Timeline

Former line-ups

B L A Z E (March 1999 – January 2003)	Blaze Bayley – vocals John Slater – guitars Steve Wray – guitars Rob Naylor – bass Jeff Singer – drums
B L A Z E (January – April 2003)	Blaze Bayley – vocals John Slater – guitars Steve Wray – guitars Rob Naylor – bass Phil Greenhouse – drums
B L A Z E (April 2003 – December 2003)	Blaze Bayley – vocals John Slater – guitars Steve Wray – guitars Wayne Banks – bass Phil Greenhouse – drums
B L A Z E (January 2004 – September 2004)	Blaze Bayley – vocals John Slater – guitars Steve Wray – guitars Wayne Banks – bass Jason Bowld – drums
B L A Z E (October 2004 – December 2005)	Blaze Bayley – vocals Oliver Palotai – guitars Luca Princiotta – guitars Nick Douglas – bass Daniel Löble – drums
B L A Z E (December 2005 – January 2007)	Blaze Bayley – vocals Oliver Palotai – guitars Luca Princiotta – guitars Christian Ammann – bass Daniel Schild – drums
Blaze Bayley band (March 2007 – October 2007)	Blaze Bayley – vocals Rich Newport – guitars Nicolas Bermudez – guitars David Bermudez – bass Rico Banderra – drums
Blaze Bayley Band (November 2007 – April 2010)	Blaze Bayley – vocals Jay Walsh – guitars Nicolas Bermudez – guitars David Bermudez – bass Lawrence Paterson – drums
Blaze Bayley Band (April 2010 – March 2011)	Blaze Bayley – vocals Jay Walsh – guitars Nicolas Bermudez – guitars David Bermudez – bass Claudio Tirincanti – drums
Blaze Bayley (March 2011 – December 2011)	Blaze Bayley – vocals Dave Andrews – guitars Steve Deleu – guitars Nick Meganck – bass Claudio Tirincanti – drums
Blaze Bayley (January 2012 – December 2012)	Blaze Bayley – vocals Thomas Zwijsen – guitars Andrea Neri – guitars Lehmann – bass Claudio Tirincanti – drums
Blaze Bayley (December 2013 – November 2014)	Blaze Bayley – vocals Chris Appleton – guitars Luke Appleton – guitars Dan Bate – bass Martin McNee – drums

Other projects

"Trinity" with Geoff Tate and "Ripper" Owens

From 2016, Blaze joined former Queensryche singer Geoff Tate and former Judas Priest vocalist Tim Owens in the touring project "Trinity"

• Blaze Bayley – vocals
• Kelly Gray - Guitars
• Scott Moughton - Guitars
• Tim Fernley - Bass
• Scott Mercado - Drums

"Metal Singers" with Udo, "Ripper" Owens and Mike Vescera

In 2015 the four singer toured South America together

• Blaze Bayley – vocals
• Lely Biscasse - Guitars
• Raphael Gazal - Guitars
• Lennon Biscasse - Bass
• Guto Franceschet - Drums

Bayley vs Di'Anno

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:

• Blaze Bayley – vocals
• Andrey Smirnov
• Vladimir Litsov – guitars
• Ilya Mamontov – guitars
• Nikolay Korshunov – bass
• Andrey Ischenko – drums
• Sergey Serbrennikov – drums

- For their Australia/New Zealand tour Bayley and Di'Anno shared Australian musicians:

• Blaze Bayley – vocals
• Doug Dalton – guitars
• Jimmy Lardner-Brown – guitars
• Stu Tyrrell – bass
• Dom Simpson – drums

- For the Scandinavian gigs and occasionally Great Britain:

• Blaze Bayley – vocals
• Richie Nielsen – guitars
• John V – guitars
• Are Gogstad – bass
• Rick Hagan – drums

- For some Italian and French gigs the two singers have been backed by official Iron Maiden tribute band Children of the Damned from Italy:

• Blaze Bayley – vocals
• Carlo Micheletti – guitars
• Andrea Moretti – guitars
• Francesco Bevini – guitars
• Matteo Panzavolta – bass
• Gianluca Calanca – drums

Metal vs Blues

In 2015 Blaze started a cooperation with US-Italian band Twin Dragons with the shows "Metal vs Blues Rock", with these musicians:

• Blaze Bayley - vocals
• Nazzareno Zacconi - guitars
• Don Roxx - guitars
• Fabio Cerrone - bass
• Manuel Togni - drums

North America

- 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:

• Blaze Bayley – vocals
• Rick Plester – guitars
• John Moyer – bass
• Bobby Jarzombek - drums
• (James Kottak – drums 2013)
• (A.J. Pero – drums 2014-2015)
• (Shawn Austin – guest on vocals 2013)

- In Mexico 2016 he has been backed by metal band Overfire:

• Blaze Bayley – vocals
• Paco Lorenzana - guitars
• Adrián Toussaint - guitars
• Eduardo Mandujano - bass
• Miky Estrada - drums

- In Canadian Tour of September 2016 his musicians were from bands Insurgent Inc and Maiden Québec.

• Blaze Bayley - vocals
• Luis-Alberto Sanchez - guitars
• Leandro Alves - guitars
• Math Gagnon - bass
• Olivier Forest - drums

- In Canadian tour of October 2014 he was backed by Maiden Québec:

• Blaze Bayley – vocals
• Steven Bergeron – guitars
• Leandro Alves – guitars
• Math Gagnon – bass
• Jef Rastoldo – drums

- In the US tour of 2011 the singer performed with the following band:

• Blaze Bayley – vocals
• Rick Plester – guitars
• M.G. Jones – guitars
• Matt Maclean – bass
• Bill Legue – drums
• (Chris Declercq – guest on guitars)

South America

- In most of South American tours Blaze (initially with Zwijsen) has been backed by musicians of "The Best Maiden Tribute" and Tailgunners from Brazil:

• Blaze Bayley – vocals
• Thomas Zwijsen – guitars
• Lely Biscasse – guitars
• Raphael Gazal – guitars
• Lennon Biscasse – bass
• Guto Franceschet – drums

- In Argentina 2016 he used two different bands:

• Blaze Bayley - vocals
• Diego Lombardo - guitars
• Emiliano Bracamonte - guitars
• Salvador Sauan - bass
• Eric Flägel - drums

• Blaze Bayley - vocals
• German Catelli - guitars
• Damian Nahuel Ros - guitars
• Julian Chuña Acuña Chapczuk - bass
• Cristian Cuppari - drums

- In Colombia 2016 with the band ADS:

• Blaze Bayley - vocals
• Adrian Dark Storm - guitars
• Jose Alfredo García - guitars
• Daniel Mantilla - bass
• Alejandro Rueda - drums

- In Chle 2016 has been backed by the band Genghis Khan:

• Blaze Bayley- vocals
• Diego Garcia - guitars
• Ivàn Moya - guitars
• Felipe Duràn - bass
• Carlos Osorio - drums

Unplugged

- For acoustic touring Blaze recently involved those musicians:

• Thomas Zwijsen – guitars
• Anne Bakker – violin
• Michelle Sciarrotta – guitars
• Olivier Arpin and Stephan Laroche – guitars
• Andrea Neri – guitars
• Jase Edwards – guitars
• Nazzareno Zacconi - guitars

Occasional

- In September 2014, celebrating 20 years after joining Iron Maiden, he toured with a special set with this band from Slovakia:

• Blaze Bayley – vocals
• Juro Gasinec – guitars
• Tibor Buso – guitars
• Jan Kicin – bass
• Lubo Franek – drums

- For the Italian summer tour of 2011, soon after the dissolution of Blaze Bayley Band, the singer has occasionally performed with the following lineup:

• Blaze Bayley – vocals
• Andrea Neri – guitars
• Lorenzo Carancini – guitars
• Simone Massimi – bass
• Roberto Pirami – drums

- In March 2013 the line-up was:

• Blaze Bayley – vocals
• James Cornford – guitars
• Peter Welsh – guitars More (band)
• Jim Houghton – bass
• Ray Whisker – drums

- 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]

References

1. "Blaze Best Songs List: Top, New, & Old". AllMusic.