# List of Blaze Bayley band members

Blaze Bayley is an English heavy metal singer, who started his career as singer of Wolfsbane in 1984, before joining Iron Maiden in 1994. Following his departure from Iron Maiden in 1999, he began a solo career with his eponymous band BLAZE, which featured guitarists Steve Wray and John Slater, bassist Rob Naylor and drummer Jeff Singer. His current main touring band is the melodic death metal band Absolva, which feature guitarists Chris and Luke Appleton (both of whom first played with Bayley in 2009), drummer Martin McNee (since 2013) and bassist Karl Schramm (since 2014).

## Main band
### Current

| Name | Years active | Instruments | Release contributions |
| Blaze Bayley | 1999–present | vocals | all releases |
| Chris Appleton | 2009–20102013–present | lead and rhythm guitarsbacking vocals | all releases from Live in Prague (DVD release only) (2014) onwards |
| Luke Appleton | 2009–20102013–20142018–20192021–present | rhythm and lead guitars (since 2014)bass (2009–2010)backing vocals | all releases from Live in Prague (DVD release only) (2014) onwards |
| Martin McNee | 2013–present | drums | all releases from Live in Prague (DVD release only) (2014) onwards |
| Karl Schramm | 2014–present | bassbacking vocals | all releases from Infinite Entanglement (2016) onwards |

### Former

| 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 | 1999–2004 | guitars | Silicon Messiah (2000) Tenth Dimension (2002) As Live as It Gets (2003) Blood & Belief (2004) |
| Rob Naylor | 1999–2003 | bass | Silicon Messiah (2000) Tenth Dimension (2002) As Live as It Gets (2003) |
| Jeff Singer | 1999–2003 | drums | Silicon Messiah (2000) Tenth Dimension (2002) As Live as It Gets (2003) |
| Phil Greenhouse | 2003 | drums | none |
| Wayne Banks | 2003–2004 | bass | Blood & Belief (2004) |
| Jason Bowld | 2004 | drums | Blood & Belief (2004) |
| Oliver Palotai | 2004–2007 | guitars | none |
| Luca Princiotta | 2004–2007 | guitars | none |
| Daniel Löble | 2004–2005 | drums | none |
| Nick Douglas | 2004–2005 | bass | none |
| Christian Ammann | 2005–2007 | bass | none |
| Daniel Schild | 2005–2007 | drums | none |
| 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 | 2007–2011 | guitars | Alive in Poland (2007) The Man Who Would Not Die (2008) The Night That Would Not Die (2009) Promise and Terror (2010) |
| Rich Newport | 2007 | guitars | Alive in Poland (2007) |
| Rico Banderra | 2007 | drums | Alive in Poland (2007) |
| 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 | The Man Who Would Not Die (2008) The Night That Would Not Die (2009) Promise and Terror (2010) |
| Claudio Tirincanti | 2010–2012 | drums | The King of Metal (2012) Live in Prague (DVD release only) (2014) |
| Dave Andrews | 2011 | guitars | none |
| Steve Deleu | 2011 | guitars | none |
| Nick Meganck | 2011 | 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 | 2012 | guitars | The King of Metal (2012) |
| Matteo Lehmann | 2012 | bass | The King of Metal (2012) |
| Dan Bate | 2013–2014 | bass | Live in Prague (DVD release only) (2014) |

## 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)