Avantasia might not be the heaviest band on the bill at Bloodstock this year, but they're definitely the most bombastic. We chat to mainman Tobias Sammet about the most metal festival of 2013.

The latest episode of the Wikimetal podcast includes a featured interview with Tobias Sammet from Avantasia

Unspeakably brutal guitar patterns, multi-layered and yet beautiful synth walls, ingenious arrangements combined with electronics, devastating drum parts, complex bass assaults and the unique vocals coming straight from the deep pits of Hell! Formed in Kuopio Finland 1999, Shade Empire has developed its own genre. After three demos they inked d...

Rock fans have often been critical of Yoko Ono's avant-garde vocal stylings

LONDON (Reuters) - American avant-garde composer John Cage staged one of the world's first "happenings", used a remote-controlled blimp in one of his operas and turned a piano into a percussion orchestra, but in his centenary year he is perhaps best known for a piece anyone can perform in his or her head. ...