NEAR LIFE EXPERIENCE, based in Metarie, Louisiana, is the post LILLIAN AXE endeavour of Stevie Blaze. Drummer Craig Nunemacher is ex-CROWBAR. Nunemacher would rejoin CROWBAR for live work in 2000 then secured a position in BLACK LABEL SOCIETY. Bass player Jeff Okoneski would team up with CROWBAR for their 2001 album.

In 2004 Stevie Blaze and bassist bassist Eric Morris both turned up in unexpected roles, Blaze playing the part of a 300-year-old vampire named Marcus and Morris a camp killer called Zed in the movie 'Slayer Zed And The City Of The Dead'. Meantime, NEAR LIFE EXPERIENCE, enrolled Richard Kendrick on lead guitar in January 2005.

Stevie Blaze's acting career was furthered in 2005 with a role in the Horror movie 'Tao Of M', portraying the vampire Midael. The movie, directed by James L. Bills and shot by Velvet Life Productions, also starred Pete Steele of TYPE O NEGATIVE and members of TWISTED SISTER.

NEAR LIFE EXPERIENCE bassist Eric Morris joined LILLIAN AXE in May 2006.