“We thought about doing a night strip show for the ladies in Bulgaria!” Guitarist and band founder Martin Wickler a.k.a. Sathonys presents the new line-up of the German melodic black metal sextet Agathodaimon, the upcoming studio album “Phoenix”, and the participation at the 20 Years Nuclear Blast Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria on November 3, 2007… […]

“It’s not a unique experience to be a rock fan anymore.” An honest conversation with Dave Wyndorf about Monster Magnet‘s new studio album “4-Way Diablo”, the present-day Internet society, and how unique it was like to be a rock fan years ago… Vassil Varbanov: Hey, Dave, how are you, man? Dave Wyndorf: I’m good, man, […]

“You’d better get a lot of ambulances, because it’s gonna get really messy once we get on the stage!” Less than a month before devastating Bulgaria’s capital Sofia together with Amorphis, Edguy, Agathodaimon, The Revenge Project and Overdawn at the 20 Years Nuclear Blast Festival on November 3, bass player Frank Healy revealed what we […]

“We don’t need guitar players anymore!” Some three weeks before the release of Helloween‘s new studio album “Gambling with the Devil”, we got the chance to talk to the 42-year-old bass player and founding member of Germany’s heavy metal masters,В Herr Markus Grosskopf, and find out more about the current situation in the camp of “the […]

“I’m really happy!” Finland’s operatic metal icon Tarja Turunen reveals the truth behind her solo career, the imminent musicians helping her out, the feelings to her former colleagues Nightwish, and the substance of her new album “My Winter Storm”, due on November 19 via Universal Music Group… Vassil Varbanov: Hello Tarja, how are you? Tarja […]

“Nowadays American metal bands sound more like what Swedish bands used to sound.” Vocalist and band co-founder BjГ¶rn “Speed” Strid presents “Sworn to a Great Divide” – the seventh full-length “really fuckin’ solid” studio album by Sweden’s melodic death metal kings Soilwork, due out on October 19, 2007 via Nuclear Blast… Vassil Varbanov: Bjorn, how […]

“We decided to leave when we’re on top as opposed to the bands that hang out too long.” An honest (last?) conversation with industrial metal godfather Al Jourgensen about the new (last) Ministry album “The Last Sucker”, the upcoming (last) Ministry tour The See You Latour, the endless (last) Ministry inspiration entitled George W. Bush, […]

“People think there’s some kind of crush between me and Soilwork, which is absolutely not true.” While “Into the Light” was the first present to the 20th birthday of the mighty German label Nuclear Blast, September 21 shall see the birth of the second chapter of the Nuclear Blast Allstars releases, logically entitled “Out of […]

“I think “Dark Passion Play” is the heaviest album Nightwish have ever done.” Anette Olzon – the Swedish singer who took the hard task to replace the emblematic Tarja Turunen as lead vocalist in Finland’s metal superstars Nightwish – introduced herself to all Tangra Mega Rock readers and listeners. Of course, Anette also hinted what […]