“You won’t understand me by listening to “Eat Me, Drink Me”, but you’ll get a real sight into what it’s like to be in a relationship with me…” The 38-year-old American singer and musician Brian Hugh Warner, known worldwide as Marilyn Manson, revealed his soul for all Tangra Mega Rock listeners a week before his […]

“Sometimes I wish I’d been right-handed!” Exactly two weeks before Heaven & Hell‘s show at the Kaliakra Rock Fest in Kavarna, Bulgaria on June 28, 2007, Tangra Mega Rock managed to get in touch with the guitar player of this super project, featuring vocalist Ronnie James Dio (Dio, ex-Black Sabbath, Rainbow), bass player Geezer Butler […]

“You’re not gonna get heard if you don’t go out on tour.” Nick Oliveri – the notorious former bass player of Queens of the Stone Age and Kyuss – talks about the upcoming tour of his current band, Mondo Generator, destined to lead him to the Tangra Mega Rock Night in Bulgaria on June 20, […]

“Fuck it, we can do whatever we like! We don’t have to fit this or that picture of what people think Clawfinger is!” Sweden’s rap-metal godfathers Clawfinger are about to release their seventh full-length studio album, prophetically entitledВ “Life Will Kill You”, on July 27 via Nuclear Blast. Naturally, this was the reason to get in […]

“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 […]

“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? […]

“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.: […]

“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 […]