“We ended up hating Rick Rubin. He didn’t get what made this band happen”: The rollercoaster story of Wolfsbane, the British metal band who should have been superstars

Wolfsbane posing for a photograph outside The Marquee club in 1990.

Before he replaced Bruce Dickinson in Iron Maiden, Blaze Bayley was the singer in Wolfsbane. The West Midlands four-piece were of the most exciting British metal bands of the late ’80s and early ’90s – Rick Rubin thought so when he signed them to his label, Def American. In 2008, Blaze Bayley looked back on the band’s dizzying rise and the making of their classic 1990 mini-album All Hell’s Breaking Loose Down At Little Kathy Wilson’s Place.