“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! […]

“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 Locomotive Stadium on […]

“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. Recently he issued his new effort – a CD/DVD release entitled “10 […]

“For me progressive has always been synonymous with ambition.” On April 16, 2007 the English progressive rock band Porcupine Tree released its new studio album, premonitory entitled “Fear of a Blank Planet”. We called founder and main songwriter Steven Wilson (vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards) for a progressive conversation about progressive rock and contemporary life as […]

“You either forget about anarchy and revolution and turn you into a part of the machine, or you’re going to rebel totally against it and become even more of a revolutionary.” With their brand-new album, “Dominator”, W.A.S.P. are about to prove they haven’t lost their immense might through the last two decades. Not at all. […]

“As long as no one says we’re a country and western band, I don’t mind calling us metal or goth metal or whatever you like.” Vocalist and band co-founder Nicholas John Arthur Holmes, better known simply as Nick Holmes, discusses the British gothic metal godfathers Paradise Lost‘s new, 11th full-length studio album, “In Requiem”, due […]

“If Sheep on Drugs means anything at all, it’s antidrugs. It’s about provoking thought.” Britain’s nihilistic industrial punksters Sheep on Drugs visit Bulgaria’s capital Sofia for the very first time in their career on April 20, 2007, for a joint show with the one-off reunited local avantgarde cultsters Babyface Clan, the energy waveВ vampires Lovers of […]