Live Reports

A Day To Remember (support: Polaris)Ljubljana / Media Park / SloveniaTuesday, 17 June 2025 A Day To Remember are a massively successful American outfit that rolls punk rock, hardcore, and metalcore into one, nurturing a synthesis of…

Marillion'Marillion Weekends Convention XXII.' (Day One)May 9, 2025, 9:15 PM – 11:15 PMPadua / Gran Teatro Geox / Italy Hard to believe it's already been two years since the first encounter with Marillion at the Marillion Weekend…

Performing: Sylosis, Paleface Swiss, Jinjer, In FlamesLjubljana / Media Center / SloveniaDate: Tuesday, June 10, 2025, from 5:00 PM (doors) to 11:00 PM It doesn't happen every day that you get handed a bouquet of stylistically…

Me First And The Gimme Gimmes (support: Chrpy)Prague / Lucerna Music Bar / the Czech RepublicThursday, June 5, 2025 This year's multi-day Prague holiday in the first week of June didn't quite match the gig-going excitement of that…

Iron Maiden (support act: Halestorm)Prague / Letiště Praha Letňany / Czech RepublicSaturday, 31 May 2025, from 18:40 to 22:00 Years come. Well, and they go. It happens quietly — this thing we call aging. And pretty fast, too. The…

Riot V, Crystal Viper, MetalsteelSaturday, 3 May 2025Klub Jedro, Medvode, Slovenia "Metal unity, metal oneness, metal solidarity" Dear metalheads, dear rockers, dear readers of this e-zine — and everyone else along for the ride.…

Dark Tranquillity / Moonspell / HiraesWednesday, 30 April 2025, 7:00 PM – 10:50 PMZagreb / Boogaloo / Croatia Some tours you just can't turn your back on. Tours that come to our region! What could be better. The pairing of legendary…

Unforigven 4 - Metallica tributeFriday, 25 April 2025, 9:30 PM – 11:45 PMMedvode / MC Jedro / Slovenia Unforgiven 4 is a Metallica tribute band that got started in the summer of 2018. A quartet made up of four outstanding musicians…

Dark Tranquillity (support: Moonspell & Hiraes)Saturday, 19 April 2025, 7:15 PM – 11:10 PMLjubljana / Kino Šiška / Slovenia This pre-Easter Saturday evening, Kino Šiška dressed up in predominantly melodic death metal colors —…

Iron MedianSaturday, 19 April 2025Orto Bar, Ljubljana, Slovenia Iron-average? Not even close! After a good three years, another chance to catch an Iron Median gig — the cleverly named reincarnation of Iron Maiden — at Orto Bar…

Benediction (support acts: Razvalina & Hobos)Friday, 18 April 2025, 20:30–23:40Solkan (Nova Gorica) / Mostovna / Slovenia Benediction are death metal legends. They're no strangers to Slovenia, yet given their more-than-enviable…

Godsmack / P. O. D. (Payable on Death) / Drowning PoolZagreb / Boćarski dom / CroatiaSunday, 30 March 2025 In recent years, Zagreb has become something of a Slovenian refuge for mid-to-large-scale concert events in our region. A…

Tarja Turunen & Marko Hietala (opening act: Aaetheria)Monday, March 10, 2025Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / Slovenia The long-awaited onstage reunion of two legendary — and, for many, sadly former — classic Nightwish members has…

The Dead Daisies (support acts: The Treatment, Broken Wings)Sunday, 9 March 2025Padua / Hall / Italy (for an English version, please scroll down the bar) The Dead Daisies, the super-rock sensation formed by a quintet of great…

PAGANFEST MMXXVALESTORM, ENSIFERUM, TÝR, HEIDEVOLK, ELVENKINGZagreb / Tvornica Kulture / CroatiaSunday, 9. 2. 2025 The roaring sounds of folk and pirate metal echoed through Tvornica Kulture as Paganfest MMXXV brought together an…

Dirkschneider (supp. The Madcap, Flesh)Tuesday, 25 February 2025, from 7:30 PM to 11:30 PMZagreb / Boogaloo / Croatia Udo Dirkschneider! A name that follows any true-blooded old-school heavy metal fan through virtually every single…

Eluveitie (special guests: Ad Infinitum, Infected Rain)Tuesday, 11 February 2025Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / Slovenia Eluveitie are one of those — how do you put it — generational bands that have really taken hold with metal crowds…

Bullet For My Valentine & Trivium (support: Orbit Culture)Vienna / Wiener Stadthalle / AustriaWednesday, 19. 2. 2025 Two metal giants joined forces on an anniversary tour called The Poisoned Ascendancy. Bullet For My Valentine…

ManOwaRFriday, February 15, 2025Munich / Zenith / Germany "Other bands play - ManOwaR kill!!!"Manowar — I last saw and heard them in 1999 at the Gods of Metal festival in Milan. Then came a string of questionable albums, starting…

PAIN (special guests: Oceans)Wednesday, 12 Feb 2025Ljubljana / Cvetličarna / Slovenia Peter Tägtgren! This is the man widely regarded as one of the central figures of heavy metal over the last thirty years — not only as a producer…

The Night Flight Orchestra (special guests: Metalite)Friday, February 14, 2025 (start: 8:00 PM, end: 11:00 PM)Vienna (Wien) / Szene / Austria The Night Flight Orchestra! No, they're not Electric Light Orchestra — these are the night…

Papa Roach (supp. Wage War)Wednesday, 29 January 2025Vienna (Wien) / Wiener Stadthalle - Halle D / Austria Papa Roach — yet another in that string of 2000s bands that embedded themselves into the millennial generation with the one…

Date: Friday, 7 Feb 2025Venue: Kranjska Gora, main squarePerformers: some kid with an acoustic guitar, Plavi orkestar in their original lineup "Still need a bit more practice" During a short break in Kranjska Gora I was checking…

Date: Friday, 24 January 2025Venue: Ljubljana, SloveniaPerformers: Zabranjeno pušenje, documentary Svjetla Sarajeva Yours truly ended up, completely out of the blue and on a special invite from a special someone, at a cultural event…

Mary RoseSaturday, 18 January 2025Koper / Snack Bar (Aquapark Hotel Žusterna) / Slovenia Mary Rose are Slovenian rock legends. The confirmed gig at Koper's Žusterna came almost tailor-made for the classic post-New Year concert…

Date: Friday, 27 Dec 2024Venue: Županja, CroatiaLine-up: Gazde, Jelusick, Opća opasnost On a sunny winter Friday, the magnificent seven of us piled into a black METAL van and set off for the distant Županja, where Croatian hard rock…

Acts: Blind Guardian, Kissin' Dynamite, Gamma Ray, H.E.A.T, Dynazty, AxxisDate: Friday, December 13, 2024Venue: Schwabenhalle, Augsburg, Germany Kai Hansen trying to breathe new life into Gamma Ray? Where better to catch that than…

AvtomobiliWednesday, 11. 12. 2024Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / Slovenia Avtomobili are legends of Slovenian rock and roll! A four-wheeled quintet always on the move, immortalized by the element of a uniquely organic, self-grown…

Evergrey (plus: Inner Vitriol & Klogr)Wednesday, 4. 12. 2024Zagreb / Močvara / Croatia A good two years have flown by in the blink of an eye since we enjoyed an Evergrey concert in Ljubljana. Given the band's track record, we…

GongSunday, December 1, 2024Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / Slovenia Legendary psychedelic prog rockers Gong paid their first-ever visit to the Slovenian capital — a city that prog rock bands drop by about as often as it rains in the…

Event: D:A:D 40th anniversary concert with special guests SandnessDate: Monday, November 25, 2024Venue: Legend Club, Milan, Italy 18 years after the indescribable events at the D:A:D concert in Graz, my buddy and I hit the road down…

Cradle Of Filth (support acts: Butcher Babies, Mental Cruelty, Black Satellite)Tuesday, 19 November 2024, 18:45 – 23:45Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / Slovenia Cradle of Filth, one of the best-known bands on the planet when the talk…

SUM 41 (opening act: Neck Deep)Wednesday, November 13, 2024Vienna (Wien) / Wienerstadthalle - Halle D / Austria And here we are — rockline.si — at the very last SUM 41 concert ever. True to 'tradition', we at Rockline love going to…

SUM 41 (special guests: Neck Deep)Tuesday, 12 November 2024, 7:30 PM – 10:50 PMBudapest / Papp László Sportaréna / Hungary SUM 41, this time for the last time. Well, the last time in Budapest — not the last time for Rockline.si,…

The Dead Daisies (plus: Mike Tramp, Beasto Blanco)Saturday, November 16, 2024, 7:45 p.m. to 11:10 p.m.Vienna (Wien) / Simm City / Austria (For an English version, please scroll down the bar) It's hard to dodge a tour that bundles…

Hardcore Superstar / Wednesday 13 / South Of SalemSunday, 17 November 2024Padova Hall / Padova / Italy (below you will find the texts also in English language) The rocking evening at Padova Hall was opened by British hard rock…

Accept (special guest: Phil Campbell And The Bastard Sons)Saturday, November 9, 2024Vienna / Simm City / Austria for an English version please scroll down the bar: Accept are legends of world heavy metal — old school through and…

Brit Floyd - The Pink Floyd Tribute ShowTuesday, 5 Nov. 2024, 7:30 PM – 10:30 PMLjubljana / Mala dvorana Hale Tivoli / Slovenia Brit Floyd are the greatest tribute act on the planet to the mighty Pink Floyd! So good, in fact, that…

Steve HackettSaturday, 2 November 2024, 9:15 PM – midnightPadua / Gran Teatro Geox / Italy Steve Hackett is today regarded as one of the most important guitarists in the popularization of electric guitar playing — the very…

Dream TheaterTuesday, October 29, 2024, 7:30 PM to 10:45 PMZagreb / Arena Zagreb / Croatia (for an English version, please scroll down the bar) Dream Theater are that institution of five rigorously trained music professors who…

Midge UreThursday, 24 Oct 2024, 9:20 PM – 10:40 PMZagreb / Tvornica kulture / Croatia Slovene version (for an English version please scroll down the bar): Some concerts you genuinely don't expect in our corner of the world. The…

Kamelot (support acts: Frozen Crown, Blackbriar, Ad Infinitum)Saturday, October 19, 2024Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / Slovenia Kamelot are a long-running American symphonic power metal band with a very well-established name on the…

FishVienna (Wien) / Arena Wien / AustriaThursday, 17 October 2024, 8:30 PM – 10:47 PM Fish, the celebrated Scottish singer-songwriter and former frontman of the legendary progressive rock outfit Marillion, is very much a progressive…

Reb Beach And The Bad BoysSaturday, 12. 10. 2024Velden am Wörthersee / Bluesiana Rock Cafe / Austria (for an English version, please scroll down the bar) Reb Beach is a guitar ace, and we never tire of coming back to see him.…

Event: Pelhan Headline Show, Support: HarpierDate: 19.9.2024Venue: Orto Bar, Ljubljana, Slovenia On Thursday, in the intimate atmosphere of Orto Bar, Harpier opened the night as support and Primorska hard rockers Pelhan…

Performing: Amon Amarth (support acts: Insomnium, Kanonenfieber)Date: Monday, 19 August 2024Location: Lignano Sabbiadoro / Arena Alpe Adria / Italy Europe, mid-August 2024! Scorched and gnawed to the bone! By blazing sun and…

Tommy Emmanuel (special guest: Frano Živković)Wednesday, 7 August 2024, 9:00 PM – 10:30 PMOpatija / Ljetna pozornica / Croatia Tommy Emmanuel is a one-of-a-kind gem in the musical universe. Nobody can take that status away from him…

Lenny Kravitz (support act: Devon Ross)Sunday, 28 July 2024Pula / Arena Pula / Croatia Lenny Kravitz is an American singer-songwriter who has sold over 40 million studio albums throughout his career. His live shows are renowned for…

Duran DuranTuesday, 30 July 2024Pula / Arena Pula / Croatia LeBon has developed a pretty solid dad bod in recent years. The new version of New Moon on Monday isn't really my thing. The White Lines cover cooled things down a…

The Cult (support: Jonathan Hulten)Friday, July 26, 2024Opatija / Ljetna pozornica / Croatia Just a year after touring Europe behind their still-relevant latest studio album "Under The Midnight Sun," The Cult headed back out across…

Event: Moon & Stars festival, headliners Status QuoDate: July 12, 2024Location: Piazza Grande, Locarno, Switzerland "Current status: black and white" Sometimes, even as a hardened and battle-worn metalhead, life drops you in…

Jonathan Kreisberg QuartetThursday, 18 July 2024, from 8:30 PM onwardsPostojna / Titov trg / Slovenia Jazz hasn't exactly been a fixture on Rockline's concert menu for a while now. Or has it? Since this May, when we twice 'strayed'…

Toto, Uriah Heep, Slade Schlosswiese, Moosburg, AustriaFriday, July 19, 2024 Anticipating an unforgettable concert, we were hit by a "biblical flood" We caught Slade's opening set. When Uriah Heep were due on stage, the intro…

Acts: Epica (support: Celtica Pipes Rock)Date: Saturday, 13 July 2024Location: Opatija / Ljetna pozornica / Croatia This year is getting more and more insane when it comes to clashing concert events. One of the July Saturdays —…

Performing: Bruce Dickinson (support: Keops)Date: Saturday, 13 July 2024Location: Zagreb / Hala Zagreb / Croatia You will find an English version below (scroll down the bar): Slovenian version: July 13th was hellishly hot, like…

Mary RoseFriday, 12 July 2024, at 9:00 PMPostojna / Titov trg / Slovenia Those Fridays do come around. Eventually. July ones. Locked into scorching dog days that know how to fray the nerves. Days when you stare at a restless sky,…

Steel Panther (support: Damir Simic Shime)Wednesday, July 10, 2024Zagreb / Tvornica kulture / Croatia When Steel Panther head out on a world tour and you've been impatiently waiting for them to bring their latest album "On The…

Simple Minds (support act: Grad)Date: Wednesday, 3 July 2024Venue: Pula / Arena / Croatia Simple Minds need no lengthy introduction. They are new wave and art rock legends with a formidable commercial track record. True to their…

Yngwie MalmsteenTuesday, 25 June 2024, 9:30 PM – 11:30 PMUdine / Castello Di Udine / Italy Yngwie Malmsteen occupies a singular position in the heavy metal and hard rock universe. After all the years he's stacked onto his career, he…

SiddhartaSunday, 23 June 2024, from 9:30 PM to 10:35 PMPiran / Tartinijev trg / Slovenia There's no better way to cap off a particularly 'intense' June week like this year's than on a Sunday — especially with a plate of…

Body Count (support act: Slope)Zagreb / ŠRC Šalata / CroatiaSunday, June 16, 2024, from 7:30 PM onward Body Count visited Zagreb for the third time in their career. The first was a staggering 27 years ago, the second when they…

Avril LavigneMonday, 17 June 2024Pula / Arena / Croatia Avril Lavigne! The name that instantly makes millennial hearts skip a beat proved last night at the Pula Arena that, twenty-two years into her career, she is still the…

Marco MendozaFriday, 14 June 2024Portorož / Rock'N'Roll Circus / Slovenia Marco Mendoza is a musician with quite a few stories under his belt. In his career, he's seen pretty much everything. The last major band we saw him with was…

Performing: Pomaranča (support act: Metalsteel)Date: Thursday, 6 June 2024Venue: Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / Slovenia Pomaranča is a name everyone knows! One way or another. We all live with oranges — in the eating sense and…

StingWednesday, 29 May 2024Ljubljana / Arena Stožice / Slovenia Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner — the legendary English singer, bassist, activist and actor who most of the world knows far better by his stage name Sting (and reportedly…

Bill Evans & The Vansband All StarsPortorož / Avditorij Portorož / SloveniaSaturday, May 18, 2024 Bill Evans is a saxophone legend — and we can say that with absolute certainty today. Over his storied career, the man first made…

The Wooten BrothersThursday, 9 May 2024, at 8:00 PMPortorož / Avditorij / Slovenia The Wooten Brothers' visit to Portorož's Avditorij delivered one of the concert highlights of the year when it comes to jazz programming in Slovenia.…

Venue: Ljubljana / Arena Stožice / SloveniaDate: 19 May 2024, 8:15 PM – 10:05 PM After all these long years, the Slovenian concert scene has finally had the pleasure of welcoming the great Rod Stewart — British pop-rock legend, one…

Performing: PelhanDate: Saturday, 20 April 2024Location: Ajdovščina, bar Hiša mladih After the debut V neznano, released on 13 March 2014, it took Aleš Pelhan a full ten years to put out the second album Zgrabi me. The band…

Performing: Ville Valo (support: Zetra)Date: Thursday, 11 April 2024Location: Ljubljana / Cvetličarna / Slovenia Ville Valo is a Finnish singer-songwriter best known as the central figure of iconic Finnish gothic metal and rock…

Acts: Mr. Big / Jared James Nichols (support act)Date: Thursday, 4 April 2024Venue: Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / Slovenia Mr. Big, a band that fused two seemingly incompatible musical trends of the eighties — melodic hard rock with…

Acts: Judas Priest / Saxon / Uriah HeepDate: Monday, 1 April 2024 (18:00–23:00)Venue: Vienna (Wien) / Wiener Stadthalle - Halle D / Austria The big day had finally come! A celebration for every lover of steel, leather, burning motor…

Performers: Black Motel Six, Great Master, DragonHammer, ANGRADate: Saturday, 23 March 2024Venue: Arci Tom, Mantua, Italy In my review of Angra's latest album Cycles of Pain, I expressed the wish that they'd come somewhere close…

Performing: U.D.O., TailgunnerDate: Friday, 22 March 2024Location: Brno / Sono Centrum / Czech Republic U.D.O., the long-running German champions of Teutonic metal, rolled through Brno on 22 March 2024 as part of the European leg of…

Acts: U.D.O., TailgunnerDate: Wednesday, March 20, 2024Location: Prague / Roxy / Czech Republic U.D.O., German metal legends — specifically of the classic Teutonic metal school — led by the unstoppable, iconic vocalist Udo…

Acts: Enslaved, Svalbard, WayfarerDate: Monday, March 18, 2024Venue: Prague / Futurum Music Bar / Czech Republic Enslaved are without question a very special band in the extreme metal arena. A band that has already entered its…

Acts: Absolva, Blaze BayleyDate: Saturday, 16 March 2024Venue: Plzeň / KD Šeříkovka / Czech Republic Blaze Bayley is regarded as one of the greatest warriors in heavy metal. A man of a thousand lives and hard-won battles, fought…

Acts: Sathra (support), TherionDate: Friday, 15 March 2024Location: Prague / MeetFactory / Czech Republic These days, Therion are practically veterans of dark yet pompous, operatic, symphonic metal, with the occasional gothic…

Performers: Infected Rain, DragonForce, Amaranthe Date: Thursday, March 7, 2024 Venue: Gasometer, Vienna, Austria Back at the Gasometer after four months, this time in my official capacity as a Rockline writer. Thanks to Laura…

Performers: Sathra (support), TherionDate: Saturday, 9 March 2024Location: San Dona Di Piave (Venice) / Revolver Club / Italy Tours come around. Therion tours! Bringing the band into striking distance of a country that is…

Performers: Almost Dead, Monastery, Atheist, CryptopsyDate: Friday, 8 March 2024Location: San Donà di Piave / Revolver Club / Italy The wait for this year's first concert expedition of a properly gnashing, clanging nature had been a…

Jethro TullTrieste / Politeama Rossetti / ItalyTuesday, 13 Feb 2024, 9:00 PM – 11:10 PM Jethro Tull, the iconic British prog-rock pioneers who last June — for the first time in 23 years — honoured us with their third visit to…

Halestorm / Black Veil Brides / MothicaWednesday, 22 November 2023Zagreb / Tvornica kulture / Croatia Barely a year had passed since Halestorm, the American hard rock sensation from Pennsylvania, toured the old continent as special…

Zaria / Elvenking / AlestormTuesday, 14 November 2023Ljubljana / Cvetličarna / Slovenia Alestorm, the Scottish pirate metal band that isn't actually all that Scottish (two members hail from nearby Ireland, while the lead guitarist…

Bryan AdamsWednesday, 13 December 2023Zagreb / Arena Zagreb / Croatia Bryan Adams — acclaimed Canadian singer-songwriter, '80s pop-rock icon, producer, professional photographer, and one of the most successful artists of all time…

Acts: Liv Sin / Priest / DeathstarsDate: Monday, November 27, 2023Location: Ljubljana / Orto bar / Slovenia Catching Swedish outfit Deathstars at Ljubljana's Orto bar just before the end of November was something of an exclusive…

Performers: Spike of Quireboys / Jelusick / The Dead DaisiesDate: Thursday, 7 December 2023Venue: Ljubljana / Cvetličarna / Slovenia There are those concerts. The ones that make it to Slovenia. Concerts whose musical DNA also feeds…

Performers: Keops / Elvenking / AlestormDate: Wednesday, 15 November 2023Location: Zagreb / Boogaloo / Croatia Alestorm are quite the phenomenon! When the author of this piece first caught them on stage during the morning hours at…

Performing: Gov't MuleDate: Tuesday, 21 November 2023Location: Trieste / Politeama Rossetti / Italy Gov't Mule are simply one of those bands. Bands sworn to the old-school — to an analog sonic vocabulary. Few like them are left. A…

Performers: SiddhartaDate: Saturday, November 18, 2023Location: Ljubljana / Arena Stožice / Slovenia Siddharta! In a sold-out Arena Stožice, with a three-and-a-half-hour show delivered at a level that can stand toe to toe with the…

Performers: ChateauDate: 17 Nov 2023Venue: Ljubljana / Orto bar / Slovenia It doesn't happen every day that Chateau release a new studio album. And more than that — after 2011, when the band put out the album "Do konca" and then,…

Performers: Induction, Sonata ArcticaDate: Tuesday, 7 November 2023Location: Bucharest / Quantum Pub / Romania English version: Induction, Sonata Arctica, Quantic Pub, Bucharest, 7.11.2023 What could be better than taking…

Performers: Death Angel / Sacred Reich / Angelus ApatridaVenue: Ljubljana / Cvetličarna / SloveniaDate: Tuesday, November 7, 2023 At last, Slovenia has had another proper thrash metal day — following the June Testament and Voivod…

Performers: Brkovi / Ice On FireDate: Tuesday, 31. 10. 2023Location: Izola / Hangar bar / Slovenia(for Slovene version please scroll down the bar) English version: Ice on Fire & Brkovi (The Mustache), Halloween, Hangar,…

Acts: Lost Society / Solstafir / AmorphisConcert date: Tuesday, 1 November 2023Location: Zagreb / Boogaloo / Croatia And that day finally came — after several years, Zagreb's Boogaloo found its way back onto our concert-going…

Artists: Ryujin (ex-Gyze) / Eleine / Ensiferum / PAINDate: Tuesday, October 24, 2023Location: Ljubljana / Cvetličarna / Slovenia PAIN in Slovenia! Yeah! What started as an innocent hobby for the legendary producer and mastermind…

Performers: Omega Sun / The Winery DogsLocation: Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / SloveniaDate: Sunday, October 29, 2023 The Winery Dogs back in Slovenia! The second visit of these three musical super-Conans — after that July appearance…

Acts: Joel Hoekstra & Brandon Gibbs (support acts: Marco Pastorino / The Spider Accomplice)Date: Saturday, 7 October 2023Location: Zagreb / Hard Place / Croatia Joel Hoekstra and Brandon Gibbs, two top-tier and highly respected…

Acts: Blind Guardian / support: Dawn of ExtinctionVenue: Vienna / Gasometer / AustriaDate: Wednesday, 18 October 2023 After eight years (if my grasp of Hansi's blunt German is anything to go by), Blind Guardian have finally graced…

Acts: Vader / Vomitory / Skaphos / AetherianVenue: San Dona Di Piave (Treviso) / Revolver Club / ItalyDate: Saturday, 14 October 2023 Round-number anniversaries have a way of coming around! Including 40th ones. And not even the…