Track Listing

1. Ghost in the Machine
2. Evolution
3. Silicon Messiah
4. Born as a Stranger
5. Hunger
6. Brave
7. Identity
8. Reach for the Horizon
9. Launch
10. Stare at the Sun

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #166128 in Music
• Released on: 2000-04-28
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Blaze It Starts Here
Superb debut album from Blaze and his band they sound fantastic.This album is a pure treat of great metal.Blazes vocals are great and he has matured big time since his stint with Maiden he has a lot more power in his pipes and carries the songs with ease,great riffs throughout album.All in all a absolute must for your metal collection.One of my best purchases in a long time.If you like quality metal you will really enjoy this album from Blaze.
Hope review is of help.

A solid, enjoyable Metal album.
From the start, Blaze Bayley was never going to have an easy time of it. Brought into Iron Maiden to replace the most impressive vocalist in the genre, his vocals were great, but by that time Dickinson's air-raid siren voice had become as much a part of the band's style as the Steve Harris 12-minute Classic. So, when Dickinson returned, a nice little payoff for Bayley saw the original Maiden line-up reform into the band that their fans had always loved.

Blaze may have loved working with Iron Maiden, but being freed from the band is probably the best thing that could have happened for both Maiden and him. Maiden's reformed line-up returned to their impressive, distinctive form, while Blaze followed up by forming his own band and releasing Silicon Messiah. And it's a good thing - because finally, we're treated to a band whose style is built around Blaze's voice, rather than stuck in the absence of Dickinson's.

His voice, which was always good, is allowed to come into its own here, ringing out over the top of thumping power-chords and beats. The work bears some of the hallmarks of his time with Maiden - and it's doubtless that he gained something from the time he spent working with them - but it's often more aggressive than much of Maiden's work, if anything, sounding more like a pumped-up Powerslave than a Seventh Son.

To the school of Maiden fans, the album may seem a little unadventurous - Maiden fans are, after all, treated to probably the most adventurous music in the Metal genre - but it's still an excellent album, and superior even in that regard to almost all of its peers. And what it lacks in adventure, it more than makes up in raw energy and passion, and will appeal to those who like the aggressive sounds of modern metal guitar, but still moss those old guitar solos, and who'd like to hear a TUNE being sung over that driving beat, rather than some guy who sounds like he's caught his leg in a bear trap. Where Maiden still echo the styles of early 80's metal, and modern bands have abandoned singing for shouting, Blaze has merged 80's vocals with late 90's style to create a unique - and outstanding - metal album.

To me, this album is more impressive and more complete than any Maiden album of the last decade, and any metal collection would be well advised to have it. Ignore Brave New World and Dance of Death - seek this out instead, and be impressed.

Blaze,kepping the fires of Heavy Metal blazing!!!
I bought Silicon messiah only 4 days ago after Blaze's blistering set at Bloodstock and I can quite easily say that this album is an absolute masterpiece. Anyone interested in Heavy Metal MUST own this, if you disliked Blaze era Maiden (shame on you it wasn't that bad!!!) you will find this a testament to Blaze's vocal skills and power that didn't always come across during some of his Maiden songs.
"Ghost In the Machine" is the best song, with Blazes voice powering the chorus and it allows for some SERIOUS heabangin'. Silicon Messiah, Born as a stranger and Stare at the Sun are almost as good and the rest of the album is very solid, the only dodgy track being The Hunger. So all in all BUY THIS ALBUM and if you can see Blaze live then even better!!! He's a top bloke too....!