In 2026 the lineup of the band changed again when bassist Wil Wilmot moved to lead vocals, and was replaced on four-string duties by Andrew Staples.
In 2025 the band recruited Matt Peck on drums.
In 2020 Wil Wilmot replaced Nigel Booth as bassist. On 27 January 2023 they released a digital single, “Blackthorn” as a taster for a new album, followed by further singles “Daggers Drawn” on 17 March and “Live Like A King” on 28 April. The album, “Wolf At The Door” was…
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Although the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns initially curtailed any live work, the new lineup of the band eventually made its live debut at the Wedfest Rocks 7 festival at Club 85 in Hitchin, UK on April 9, 2022, on a bill that also featured other NWOBHM stablemates such as…
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Crawte and Martin left the band in January 2016. A new drummer Jason Roberts and lead guitarist Joe Fawcett joined Mark Sutcliffe and Danny B, signalling a return to the original Trespass twin lead guitar sound. An album of new material, entitled Footprints in the Rock was released in late…
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The band’s new line-up debuted at the Brofest No. 3 festival in Newcastle upon Tyne , England, on 28 February 2015. The new eponymously titled album and accompanying website were launched in March 2015.
Trespass started to reform in 2013 into 2014 when they entered the studio once more to re-record their classic material, so it had a consistent sound and feel. The band launched an official Trespass Facebook page in December 2013. In 2014, Paul Sutcliffe decided he wanted to pursue other musical…
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The band came to sign with Trial Records and their first single, “One of These Days”, had a pressing of only 2000 copies, which were sold out in a short time. After that they enlisted vocalist Rob Eckland to record their “Jealousy” / “Live It Up” single, which was a…
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In 1990, Lars Ulrich , the drummer and co-founder of the band Metallica , released a compilation entitled NWOBHM ’79 Revisited celebrating the tenth anniversary of the new wave of British heavy metal. The double-CD includes some of the top acts of the time, with Trespass being represented with their…
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After Trespass’s break-up, the long-term members of the band (Mark, Paul, and Dave) formed a glam metal band Blue Blud (later Blue Blood), releasing two albums: The Big Noise (1989) and Universal Language (1991). After Blue Blood’s break-up in 1992, the brothers revived the Trespass name and released an album…
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