Blood and Belief [Import]

Blaze, Blaze (Metal) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 21, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Steamhammer
• ASIN: B0001U0FYA
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #238,512 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Alive

2. Ten Seconds

3. Blood & Belief

4. Life & Death

5. Tearing Myself To Pieces

6. Hollow Head

7. Will To Win

8. Regret

9. Path & The Way

10. Soundtrack Of My Life

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Blaze Delivers, February 5, 2005

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Stig Five "stigstiggy" (Craig,Nebraska) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blood and Belief (Audio CD)

A good solid CD from Blaze. The music plays a supporting role to Blaze's voice as you would expect. There weren't any guitar solos that really grabbed me but all the music was well played and complimented the songs perfectly. To my ears some of the best tracks are "10 Seconds", "Will To Win", "Regret", "The Path and The Way". Great vocal melodies with that Blaze style that I love. I'll be listening to this CD many times over the years.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply breathtaking!, August 4, 2004

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M. Fonseca "carmarthen" (Thunder) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blood and Belief (Audio CD)

IF you enoy heavy metal or any kind of hard rock, this album is a sure hit. The EDITORIAL REVIEWS resumes it very well. It's strong, melodic, energetic. the songs will find your way into ypur own blood stream. It's amazing how a singer who traded water with Iron Maiden and was fired for give room o Bruce Dikinson's return was capable of assembling such fine guitarists and release three great studio albums in a row.

BLOOD AND BELIEF is strong, a punch in the stomach. His ten songs are near to perfection. Highly recommended.

4.0 out of 5 stars Blaze Deliver The Goods Again, August 26, 2004

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wizey (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blood and Belief (Audio CD)

Again Blaze Bayley & his band have delivered another fine metal album for us. Although not as good as his first post-Iron Maiden release "Silicon Messiah" (one of my all time favorite albums), this is still an album that I recommend highly.

It is heavy with some great guitar riffs, but it is still quite melodic. It is that melodic ingredient that many bands lose when they play heavy but not Blaze. The music really pumps and sounds better the louder you play it, but you can still sing along with it.

Although the band now has a different bass player and drummer than the previous Blaze albums, the two guitarists Steve Wray and John Slater remain, as does producer Andy Sneap. It is these guys (and Blaze Bayley himself of course) that defines the sound. Sneap seems to know how to get the best out of Bayley and does a great job of producing another high quality Blaze album.

As for the songs themselves:
The album starts off well, but I don't think that the first two tracks "Alive" and "Ten Seconds" are quite as good as opening tracks such as "Ghost In The Machine" or "Kill And Destroy" on earlier Blaze albums, because I don't think the choruses in these songs are as good. However they are still good songs, with great pumping guitar riffs that fans will love.

Track 3 "Blood And Belief" is one of the best tracks on the album because of the guitar riffs and solos, timing changes and a good chorus. It is just as good as anything on previous Blaze albums.

Track 4 "Life And Death" is another of the albums best tracks. Quite intense and heavy in parts, quieter in other parts, and another chorus to sing along to.

Track 5 "Tearing Yourself To Pieces" is equally as good as the previous 2 tracks, but is probably the most intense song on the album. For some reason it reminds me of the Metallica song "The Outlaw Torn" from their album "Load" in it's heaviness and intensity.

Track 6 "Hollow Head" is in my opinion the worst song on the album, and I always skip over it. The guitars sound good and some people will like it, but I don't. The chorus is poor, and the song just gets on my nerves.

Track 7 "Will To Win" is not a bad song which I would rate equally as good as tracks 1 and 2. It is similar in style to songs such as "The Launch" or "Leap Of Faith" from previous Blaze albums.

Track 8 "Regret" is another of the albums best. Again: quieter moments, heavy moments, and another killer chorus, equally as good as any of Blaze's best songs. I love it.

Track 9 "The Path & The Way" is the second worst song on the album, but it's not the rubbish that "Hollow Head" is. It's just nothing that great, an average song which doesn't do much for me.

Track 10 "Soundtrack Of My Life" is a good album closer, and another of the albums best songs. Again it starts off quiet and mellow before it builds and launches with more great guitar riffs.

So with 5 excellent songs, three pretty good songs, one that's just ok and one that's total cr#p, I reckon that makes a pretty good album.

As I stated earlier I don't think it's as good as "Silicon Messiah", but it is equally as good as "Tenth Dimension". It is dark and intense and the lyrics are more personal and introspective. However, I have found this album a little bit easier to listen to than "Tenth Dimension".

Some critics thought that Blaze didn't have much gas left in the tank, that the band was getting stale and wouldn't be around much longer. Blaze have proved them wrong with this album.

Blaze fans will love "Blood And Belief", and for those metal-heads that haven't really got into this band yet, you better. This is the third excellent studio album from this band who continue to provide those of us who like "real metal" (i.e. old school '80's influenced metal) with fresh, quality music that we unfortunately don't get much of these days.