Wolfsbane

The band's first album to include Blaze Bayley, formerly of Wolfsbane, as vocalist, replacing Bruce Dickinson who left the band following their previous tour to pursue a solo career. It is considered Iron Maiden's darkest album due to the lyrics being based on personal issues surrounding Steve Harris at the time, who was in the midst of a divorce, and the album cover, which depicts the band's mascot, Eddie, being graphically mutilated through surgery.

is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero team, one of several spin-offs of the popular X-Men franchise. Conceived by writer/illustrator Rob Liefeld, the team was formed in (April 1991) and soon afterwards was featured in its own series. The group was a new incarnation of the 1980s team, the New Mutants. Led by the mutant Cable, X-Force was more militant and aggressive than the X-Men. The title was revamped in in 2001 with a new cast in the form of a group of self-interested young mutants who were gathered together by a corporation to become media stars and used the name X-Force. X-Force (vol. 1) was cancelled with issue #129 and relaunched as , which featured the later incarnation of the team. After X-Statix was cancelled with #26, Marvel reunited the original X-Force team for a six-issue 2004 miniseries. In 2007-2008, during the crossover, a new version of X-Force was formed that had Wolverine leading a more militaristic black ops branch of the X-Men, forming the basis for a new X-Force (Vol. 3) series starting February 2008 by writers Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost, plus Clayton Crain as the artist. A Minutemen scan.

Metal Hall of Fame inductee, Blaze Bayley, releases a brand new live album, featuring versions of songs from his last studio album ‘War Within Me’ and also songs he wrote and/or performed during his time in Iron Maiden (1994-1999). The 5 songs from ‘War Within Me’ were recorded on tour in the UK, and the remainder were recorded in France.

In 1993, Bruce Dickinson left Iron Maiden to pursue his solo career, playing his farewell show on 28 August 1993. The remaining members listened to hundreds of tapes sent in by vocalists before convincing Blaze Bayley, formerly of Wolfsbane, to audition for them.