BENEDICTION - Frank Healy

09 October 2007

"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...

HELLOWEEN - Markus Grosskopf

08 October 2007

"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...

06 October 2007

TARJA TURUNEN

04 October 2007

"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...

SOILWORK - BjГ¶rn "Speed" Strid

01 October 2007

"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...

MINISTRY - Al Jourgensen

10 September 2007

"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...

NUCLEAR BLAST ALLSTARS - Peter Wichers

23 August 2007

"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...

NIGHTWISH - Anette Olzon

23 August 2007

"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...

ARCH ENEMY - Michael Amott

22 August 2007

"Nowadays it seems like everybody's starting a MySpage page before they can tune their guitar in." Exactly a year after our previous conversation , we caught Arch Enemy guitarist Michael Amott on the phone for a chat about "Rise of the Tyrant" - the seventh...

SEPULTURA - Andreas Kisser

09 August 2007

"The whole Sepultura story was built on challenges." Less than a week before Sepultura 's first ever concert in Bulgaria, long-time guitarist Andreas Kisser revealed his expectations from the show, the situation within the band after the departure of Igor Cavalera, the old...