[3] Mark Sutcliffe cites as a musical influence Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple fame, Cris Linscott admired Lynyrd Skynyrd and Rush, while "Sleeve" liked David Coverdale and Paul Rodgers.
The band played a few gigs with this line-up (the biggest being the Quay Theatre in Sudbury, Suffolk), but disbanded after a family tragedy.
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 biggest hit "One of These Days" from the BBC session.
[5] In 2014, Paul Sutcliffe decided he wanted to pursue other musical avenues so the remaining members of the band, Mark Sutcliffe and Dave Crawte, recruited James Last on drums, Paul Martin on guitars and Dan Biggin (AKA Danny B, who engineered the new album) on bass.
[citation needed] The band's new line-up debuted at the Brofest #3 festival in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, on 28 February 2015.
The album, “Wolf At The Door” was released on 26 May, featuring artwork by the English illustrator Mark Wilkinson, who has also provided album cover artwork for Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Marillion and The Darkness amongst others Although the Covid 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 9th 2022, on a bill that also featured other NWOBHM stablemates as Thunderstick and Elixir.