Blaze Bayley

The singer and his band play the whole of Silicon Messiah.

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Still a member of the reunited Wolfsbane, the former Iron Maiden frontman wraps up an anniversary tour performing his debut solo album Silicon Messiah in its entirety.

How is it even possible that Silicon Messiah is twenty-five years old?

It's just mad, isn't it? I had some ideas intended for my third album with Maiden, which didn't happen, of course, but they became the core of Silicon Messiah. I had learned so many lessons from working with Steve Harris, and those also came out with the album. Playing Silicon Messiah from start to finish has been incredible.

Does it present a torrent of emotions - joy, relief, uncertainty, fear?

I see where you are going with that question, and in some cases it does. But what I was able to do was take my feelings at the time - fear, loneliness and isolation - and place them within the characters in songs like Ghost In The Machine, which I got from [sci-fi author] Ray Bradbury.