NUCLEAR BLAST - Jaap Wagemaker

16 May 2007

"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...

NUCLEAR BLAST - Yorck Eysel

16 May 2007

"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...

PAIN - Peter TГ¤gtgren

16 May 2007

"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...

U.D.O. - Udo Dirkschneider

14 May 2007

вЂњYou don't have to listen to all these lies - just switch off the fucking TV!вЂќ "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...

BLIND GUARDIAN - Hansi KГјrsch

14 May 2007

"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...

NUCLEAR BLAST ALLSTARS - Victor Smolski

14 May 2007

"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...

SAMAEL - Vorph

10 May 2007

"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" ,...

NUCLEAR BLAST - Kathy Schuette

04 May 2007

"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...

IRON MAIDEN - Janick Gers

27 April 2007

"If people like what we're playing - god bless them! And if they don't like it... God bless them as well!" Less than two months before one of the most eagerly awaited metal events in Bulgaria - the first ever show by Iron Maiden fronted by Bruce Dickinson in Sofia, at the...

KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD

26 April 2007

"I'm sure the young blues guitarists that are really good can make a name for themselves." Although just 30 years old, the Louisiana-born blues guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd has already sold millions of albums, got two Grammy nominations and two Billboard Music Awards....