Vor wenigen Minuten erreichte uns eine Email von Oliver Palotai (DORO, KAMELOT), in der der Ausstieg aller vier Musiker aus der Band BLAZE von Sänger Blaze Bayley angekündigt wird. Hier ist das offizielle Statement der vier Musiker Oliver Palotai, Luca Princiotta, Daniel Schild und Christian Ammann:

"Dear fans of BLAZE,

We are in the sad situation to give out the news that the complete current
line- up of BLAZE, therefore the authors of this letter, will leave the
band.

In the past years BLAZE was in a difficult situation, regarding finances,
management and organization. Finally, during summer 2006, things started
to clear up a bit, after working together on all those aspects.

Most of the songs for the next album have been already written together,
still - in a tough music business today - we were prepared it would be not
easy to launch the new era of BLAZE. But we always had the feeling we had
a great band, further being really good friends, and being capable of
handling that.

But about four months ago Blaze Bayley got in contact with a new
management. The ideas and working style of this management quickly showed
to be very different what we, the musicians, considered to be right for
this band.

Blaze Bayley himself decided to stay with the management. Thus a common
basis for making music together is not longer existing.

We thank you for all your support during the past years. Have a happy and
successful year 2007."