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Mary Rose from Postojna are one of Slovenia's best-known hard rock and heavy metal bands. Formed in 1987, they're still creatively active in 2026, three studio albums in, despite plenty of ups and downs and lineup changes. Their music…

Every now and then a band pops up on the Slovenian hard rock scene that doesn't start from zero, but from experience. Samorastnik is exactly that kind of story. A new lineup made up of musicians who have already left their mark in other…

In the fall of 2023, the book zGodbe generacij, Glasbeni odmevi Zgornje Vipavske doline saw the light of day. It presents bands and solo artists from Ajdovščina and the Vipava area, spanning every era of the local music scene from the…

PART 2 (a preview of the official album release, with an interview recap) A new story from Pelhan, their second. A new chapter built from a decade of experience and two years of polishing ideas. The result of personal growth,…

The beginnings of the music we now know as Pelhan go back to 2000. Aleš Pelhan, guitarist and singer, formed the band RoXoN at the age of 15. At first they played well-known rock tunes and gathered experience at mostly small local gigs.…

For an English version, please scroll down the bar! John Arch (on the right in the photo above) is something of a cult figure from the classic days of heavy metal! Between 1982 and 1987 he sang in the first incarnation of the…

To say that the musicians on stage delivered anything less than a competent performance would be an insult to Apocalyptica; to say that the atmosphere at Monday's concert was great would be an insult to the audience.

ALEŠ PODBREŽNIK Slovenia:1. Bakalina Velika - Prvi krajec "What its predecessor “Španabije” (2017) hinted at in the closing track Ko se je dielu sviet, “Prvi krajec” fully delivers. With the new album, Bakalina Velika cunningly stretched…

Thursday, 28 November 2019 Winter Days of Metal keeps growing in stature year after year. On top of the evening concerts, there's a whole range of other activities on offer — though this year's weather wasn't exactly playing along for…

Concert venue: Graz / Stadthalle / AustriaConcert date: Saturday, 12 October 2019 David Hasselhoff aka The Hoff, the legendary actor who shot to fame with Knight Rider and Baywatch, decided in 2019 to step back onto the stage as a…

Venue: Graz / Schloßbergbühne Kasematten / Austria Date: Monday, 05.08.2019 Graz proved once again that metalcore can sell in Austria. Even on a Monday, foreign license plates kept rolling in and crowds of bewildered visitors…

And on the very last day, instead of a souvenir shirt, the organizers could've just printed "I Survived the Hell of Metaldays 2019" tees, because weather-wise this year's festival was without a doubt one of the hottest ever. But we scraped…

Thursday in Tolmin promised hellish heat again, and the organizers warned festival-goers about it too. In weather like this, the nearby river and the free drinking water all over the festival grounds come in really handy. Thursday was also…

The golden mean turned out to be a hellish one this time, because Tolmin got probably one of the worst heat waves of the summer. But the most beautiful festival site in the world has the Soča to cool down overheated heads, loads of side…

On Tuesday it wasn't just the air temperature that was climbing (which made the daughter of the mountains look all the more gorgeous). The temperature at the venue was rising too, as the number of good gigs we caught kept going up. Hand on…

Metaldays has been offering a so-called "early arrival" for a while now, meaning you can show up at the festival ahead of time. In the past that only meant camping early (and grabbing the best shady spots), but a few years ago the…

Album length: 57:56 Production: V. Santura and Obscura Release date: February, 2016 Label: Relapse Records Rating: 10/10 German progressive death metallers Obscura have been through a lot of changes in the past four years.…

Location: Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / SloveniaDate: Tuesday, 03.12.2013 How good is a musician once you strip away the makeup of effects, swap the screaming distortion for nothing but the resonant body of an acoustic guitar, sit…

Location: Trieste / Piazza Unita d'Italia / Italy Date: Saturday, May 25, 2013 Is there really such a thing as eternity and lasting staying power at the very top of the hellish trinity of sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll? There have…

Location: Ljubljana / Channel Zero / SloveniaDate: 06.10.2012 So what is "24 Hour Party People"? 24 hours of non-stop gigging by 24 bands? 24 hours of uninterrupted musical trance? A 24-hour cross-section of the Slovenian…

"Grace for Drowning" is not a progressive rock album. "Grace for Drowning" isn't even a music album per se. "Grace for Drowning" is simply art. Art of sounds, letters and, last but not least, images.

"Mark Knopfler treated a crowd of several thousand to the highlights of his solo career, with a few glimpses of the current album and, of course, a bit of predictable digging through the Dire Straits legacy"

Location: Graz / Orpheum Teater / AustriaDate: 04/28/2010 The supergroup Asia was born in the eighties as a conglomerate of four outstanding musicians from kindred musical philosophies, rooted mainly in progressive rock. They'd all…

"This is more than a decent debut. The band is still searching for the right sound, and for now maybe still lacks a bit of creativity and ideas. The tracks are pretty similar to one another, with too much repetition of "riffs" and certain…

Location: Lignano Sabbiadoro / Arena Alpe Adria / ItalyDate: Sunday, 05.07.2009 Chickenfoot is an all-star lineup of veterans made up of Joe Satriani, Chad Smith (Red hot chilli peppers) and fifty percent of Van Halen (Sammy Hagar,…

"Ghost Love Score, and then for the grand finale the obligatory Wish I Had An Angel, which set the Palasport hall on fire and sent it sky-high for good. And that's how an unforgettable 1 hour 40 minute evening with Nightwish wrapped up, the…

"The Darkness really have saved rock once again and shot a healthy dose of adrenaline into it."

"Mark Knopfler showed once again at this gig what passionate, creative guitar playing can be, with no pointless stage kitsch and no flinging himself around the stage (Mark leaves that to others, the younger guitarists), and on Tuesday the…