“Our family is just too normal and boring. We’re not that crazy like the Osbournes.” The 23-year-old daughter of legendary British bass player Steve Harris, singer Lauren Harris, shall perform before her dad’s band, Iron Maiden, on their concert at the Locomotive Stadium in Sofia, Bulgaria on June 4, 2007. This was the reason to […]

“You can’t have a rock star attitude in Candlemass!” Leif Edling – founder, songwriter and bass player of Sweden’s doom metal godfathers Candlemass – welcomes the quintet’s new vocalist Robert Lowe (Solitude Aeturnus), explains the departure of his predecessor Messiah Marcolin, and presents the band’s ninth studio album, “King of the Grey Islands”, due to […]

“We try to give people more than just a disc with music.” A conversation with Yorck Eysel, mastermind of the currently inactive German gothic rockers Love Like Blood and current Head of Distribution, Legal Affairs and Licenses for Nuclear Blast, about the 20th anniversary of the mighty German metal label… Vassil Varbanov: Having in mind […]

“I wanted to make “Psalms of Extinction” like a rollercoaster, with ups and downs and surprises all the time.” Hypocrisy’s mastermind Peter Tagtgren returns with “Psalms of Extinction” – the fifth full-length studio offering by his electro-metal one-man project Pain… Vassil Varbanov: Hello Peter, how are you? Peter Tagtgren: Good, how are you? V. V.: […]

“Everybody is free to send us demos, because you never know what will come across.” A conversation with Jaap Wagemaker, A&R and Product Manager for Nuclear Blast, about the 20th anniversary of the mighty German metal label… Vassil Varbanov: Which are your priority releases for 2007? Jaap Wagemaker: Ha! Do you have like ten minutes? […]

“You don’t have to listen to all these lies – just switch off the fucking TV!” “Mastercutor” – the eleventh full-length studio album by the German heavy metal quintet U.D.O. – saw the light of day on May 18, 2007 via AFM Records. This was the reason for our conversation with the band’s face and […]

“Every first show in a country is the most remarkable one.” Just a couple of days before Blind Guardian‘s first ever concert in Bulgaria, set to take place at Sofia’s Festivalna Hall on May 17, we called the German power metal bards’ 41-year-old vocalist Hans Juergen Kuersch, better known simply as Hansi Kuersch, for a […]

“You can call Nuclear Blast anytime and you’ll always get an answer, as they really take care about musicians and music.” Known as the guitar player for Germany’s metal masters Rage, the Belarus-born composer and multi-instrumentalist Victor Smolski gets in Tangra Mega Rock’s spotlight because of the brilliant work he did for “Into the Light” […]

“We don’t want to talk just to the Swiss people, but to the world.” Swiss extreme industrial metal avantgardists Samael shall release their probably most brilliant, diverse and high-class offering to date on June 1, 2007 via Nuclear Blast. Entitled “Solar Soul”, this CD is “pretty much a collection of everything Samael’s been about through […]

“A lot of people here in Nuclear Blast are not only related to the bands on a business level, but there’s also a lot of friendship.” A conversation with Kathy Schuette, a young lady dealing with the promotion for Nuclear Blast, about the 20th anniversary of the mighty German metal label… Vassil Varbanov: Hello Kathy! […]