Live Reports

Lineup: Accept, Crimson Glory, Cripper, Crystal Viper, Death Angel, Human Zoo, Overkill, Quiet Riot, Stormwarrior, Portrait, Asphyx, Amorphis, Legion Of The DamnedLocation: Messegelände / Balingen / Germany Date: Friday, July 14, 2011 …

Location: Letališče / Šentvid pri Stični / Slovenia Concert date: 23.07.2011Attendance: 200Ticket price: €0.00 The thought of heading out to some motorcycle rally always leaves me with mixed feelings - generally lousy sound quality, a pile…

Performing: Axel Rudi Pell, Brainstorm, Eternal Reign, Kissin' DynamiteLocation: Balingen, Messegelände, GermanyDate: Thursday, 13.07.2011 The year flew by, and the traditional German Bang Your Head!!! festival is back on our…

Location: Rovinj, CroatiaConcert date: 07/16/2011Attendance: 6,000Ticket price: 350kn/650kn or 950kn (VIP) Croatia pleasantly surprised everyone this year by organizing the Avantgarde Jazz Festival, which hosted plenty of eminent names.…

Location: Arena / Vienna / AustriaConcert date: 07/16/2011Attendance: 5000 On Sunday the long wait for our first Beatles concert was finally over. In the pleasant company of fellow Beatles fans, we hit the road for Vienna at ten in the…

Author: Peter PodbrežnikPhotos: Peter Podbrežnik Location: Castello Scaligero / Villafranca (Verona) / ItalyConcert date: July 16, 2011Attendance: 10Ticket price: €36.00 Villafranca is an idyllic, slightly sleepy Italian town right next…

Author: Urban BoltaPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Messegelande / Balingen / GermanyConcert date: 15.07.2011Attendance: 14Ticket price: 80€ (two-day ticket) And so the second day of BYH!!! 2011 rolled around. Let me just hint that…

Author: Rok Klemše Location: Tolmin, SloveniaConcert date: 15.07.2011Attendance: 10,000 Saturday brought the last day of the festival, and we'd made it there a bit worn out, sure, but in one piece and healthy. The final day promised some…

Author: Urban BoltaPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Messegelande / Balingen / GermanyConcert date: 14.07.2011Attendance: 14000Ticket price: €80 (two-day ticket) Bang Your Head is one of Germany's biggest traditional festivals. This…

Location: Celje / Kino Metropol / SloveniaConcert date: 14.07.2011Attendance: 60Ticket price: €10.00 The fired-up This Fire crew and their indie rock Friday nights at Kino Metropol in Celje remain the one constant for anything different on…

Author: Rok KlemšePhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Tolmin, SloveniaConcert date: 14.07.2011Attendance: 10 Day four of Metalcamp was actually the only day of this year's festival that woke us up with a sour, rainy, cold morning. So no…

Venue: Bluesiana Rock Cafe / Velden / AustriaConcert date: 14.07.2011Attendance: 100Ticket price: €32.00 (advance) / €36.00 (day of show) Summer weather followed us all the way to Velden, an Austrian town that comes fully alive in the warm…

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: Messehalle / Balingen / GermanyConcert date: July 13, 2011Attendance: 2000Ticket price: €25.00 The year has flown by, and the traditional German Bang Your Head!!! festival is upon us…

Author: Rok KlemšePhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Tolmin, SloveniaConcert date: 13.07.2011Attendance: 10 Wednesday, the golden middle of the festival, packed in the biggest crowd of the whole thing thanks to its gargantuan headliner. No…

Right on cue, the first heat wave of the year brought a The Pogues show with it.

Author: Rok KlemšePhotos: Nina Grad Location: Tolmin, SloveniaConcert date: 12.07.2011Attendance: 10 On Wednesday morning, the scorching sun chased us out of the shelter of our tents bright and early, which is the perfect excuse for a…

Author: Rok KlemšePhotos: Nina Grad Location: Tolmin, SloveniaConcert date: 11.07.2011Attendance: 10 Simon Gregorčič once wrote, "Beautiful art thou, clear daughter of the mountains ... and bloody shalt thou flow for me." ... and the…

Location: Ljubljana / Kino Šiška / SloveniaConcert date: 06.07.2011Attendance: 300Ticket price: €20.00 On the train to Ljubljana, yours truly was reading K. Vonnegut - a great mental warm-up for an equally great gig by the innovative…

Location: Ljubljana / Križanke / SloveniaConcert date: 05.07.2011Attendance: 2Ticket price: €35.00 I have to admit that this title more or less wrote itself, and not without reason. Wednesday's show was livened up by a gang of hardcore…

"The future of Judas Priest is still a bit shrouded in fog, even though they're promising a new record. But if this was Judas Priest's farewell, it won't be bitter, it'll be sweet! Thanks to the metal gods who wrote the book of heavy…

Location: Velenje / Letni kino ob Škalskem jezeru / SloveniaConcert date: 01.07.2011Attendance: 400Ticket price: €5.00 The Velenje crowd clearly knows what it means to have a band like Res Nullius in their midst. The venue, an abandoned…

"Whether or not this is RockLine's last Judas Priest live report, I can only say one thing. 'Thank you, metal gods!'"

Author: Rok KlemšePhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Belgrade / Arena / SerbiaConcert date: June 30, 2011Attendance: 10Ticket price: €30.00 Judas Priest, the undisputed institution of heavy metal, are slowly saying goodbye. The metal…

Location: Griže / Picerija Verdi / SloveniaConcert date: 06/29/2011Attendance: 30Ticket price: €0.00 (free entry!) I admit both titles sound a bit odd, but the setting where Novi Sad's Azil 5 played last night was just as odd. Picerija…

Author: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Vienna / Stadthalle / AustriaConcert date: June 28, 2011Attendance: 4Ticket price: €61.40 (floor) There's been a lot of talk about the incredible pairing of two bands who decided to join forces and hit…

There's probably no point wasting words on Jeff Beck. A phenomenal guitarist, a musical innovator, winner of six Grammys and a small sea of other awards, and a big fan of Ford hot rods, he probably has one of the biggest reputations among…

"Putting Journey, Foreigner, Night Ranger and Kansas together on the "Rock The Nation" tour was a brilliant idea. It brought the true old guard of fans of classic eighties radio sounds to the halls of Germany, along with the legacy of bands…

"Since Journey don't have as many hits in Europe as Foreigner, and given their tamer stage dynamics and less fiery crowd interaction, this time Foreigner stole the show from them by a hair!"

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Schwabenhalle / Augsburg / GermanyConcert date: 22.06.2011Attendance: 3000Ticket price: €58.00 Well, the time has finally come to celebrate for everyone who "lived" the hits of the…

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Arena Concierti Fiera Milano / Rho (Milan) / ItalyConcert date: 21.06.2011Attendance: 3000Ticket price: €52.00 Journey hardly need a special introduction. This is the band that…

Author: Rok KlemšePhotos: Nina Grad Location: Ljubljana / Gala hala / SloveniaConcert date: 06/19/2011Attendance: 200 In the beginning there was (thrash) metal. And there was punk/hardcore. They always eyed each other a bit sideways, but…

Author: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Športni park Svoboda / Ljubljana VičConcert date: 06/18/2011Attendance: 250Ticket price: €0.00 (free entry!) This event came out of nowhere, like a bolt from the blue! Metal Witch! The second one in a…

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: Local Bar / Vienna / AustriaConcert date: June 18, 2011Attendance: 100Ticket price: €10.00 This concert adventure in Vienna was also planned at the very last minute, thanks to news…

"See you at the new stadium," Tomi Meglič promised a 30,000-strong crowd way back in 2003, on September 13th to be exact, at the end of the mega concert with the philharmonic.

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: Figa Rock Bar / Koper / SloveniaConcert date: 17.06.2011Attendance: 120Ticket price: 0,00€ (free entry!) The dust hadn't even settled yet after Uriah Heep's latest tour, which, as…

Author: Sandi Sadar ŠobaPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: Kino Šiška, LjubljanaConcert date: 16.06.2011Attendance: 800Ticket price: 10 € (presale) / 12 € (day of show) A decade of excellence, of constant change, chiseling, kneading and…

Author: Urban BoltaPhotos: Urban Bolta Location: Sölvesborg / SwedenConcert date: June 15, 2011Attendance: 33,000Ticket price: €270 (4-day ticket) One look at the clear Thursday sky promised a great festival day. We'd picked up a few new…

We'd barely arrived in Sweden and here it was, the last day of the festival already! The days flew by like minutes, and in the blink of an eye it hit us that we had just one more day of pure rock bliss ahead before the grueling drive back…

The morning of the festival's third day, and breakfast too, were still riding high on the previous day's shows and served up more of that heated debate about heavy metal, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, but it couldn't go on forever...

The year flew by, and the start of June once again kicked off the busy summer festival season with Sweden Rock Festival (SRF from here on), one of the most revered festival events on the Old Continent.

Author: Rok Klemše Venue: Channel Zero, LjubljanaConcert date: 06.06.2011Attendance: 0 First, a little disclosure: the author of this report listens to two of the three bands from the night recapped below pretty regularly on the daily bus…

Author: Urban BoltaPhotos: Urban Bolta Venue: Incheba Expo Arena / Bratislava / SlovakiaConcert date: June 3, 2011Attendance: 5,000Ticket price: 25€ / 28€ Scorpions are giants of the German music scene. They've been tirelessly playing for…

Author: Rok Klemše Venue: Štuk, MariborConcert date: June 2, 2011Attendance: 200 These days it's not exactly common for bands to play here that our stages haven't hosted before. Which is fine, of course, as long as the bands that deserve…

" Three and a half hours of out-of-this-world playing from a Canadian band of modest size (a trio), brimming with a first-class feel for good, honest rock n' roll fun. Pure musical perfectionism in human form, on stage!"

Author: Rok KlemšePhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Ljubljana / Kino Šiška / SloveniaConcert date: 29.05.2011Attendance: 550Ticket price: 22,00€ / 25,00€ After two years, the legendary British heavy metal outfit Saxon came back to…

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Frankfurt am Main / Festhalle / GermanyConcert date: 28.05.2011Attendance: 20Ticket price: 60,00€ It's not every day that Rush wander over to Europe. They're one of those…

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Frankfurt Am Main / Festhalle / GermanyConcert date: May 27, 2011Attendance: 12,000 Iron Maiden, new album, new tour! Seven shows indoors. All seven in Germany. A mini German…

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: Stadtsaal / Feldkirchen / AustriaConcert date: 26.05.2011Attendance: 1300Ticket price: 32,60€ / 40,50€ Manfred Mann's Earth Band are one of those rock relics whose roots reach back to…

Author: Rok Klemše Location: Gospodarsko razstavišče, LjubljanaConcert date: 25.05.2011Attendance: 2000Ticket price: 38 € in advance / 68 € on the day of the concert A schizophrenia of musical shades and rhythms, professional performances…

Author: Urban BoltaPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Roncade (Treviso) / New Age / ItalyConcert date: 23.05.2011Attendance: 350Ticket price: €30.00 Another year has rolled around and with it a new tour. Saxon, the legendary British heavy…

Author: Rok Klemše Venue: Menza pri koritu, LjubljanaConcert date: 23.05.2011Attendance: 80 Anaal Nathrakh, the British outfit that mixes black metal and grindcore and sounds utterly nihilistic and misanthropic (in line with Nietzschean…

Author: Rok KlemšePhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Ljubljana / Orto bar / SloveniaConcert date: 20.05.2011Attendance: 70Ticket price: 12,00€ / 15,00€ Vicious Rumors is a band that, by every measure, should be counted among the greats.…

"Avtomobili don't play all that often, but when they hit the stage, they simply enchant you. Their music and the way they perform it are so strong in substance and character that at a gig Avtomobili build a world of their own, one that can…

Location: Gala Hala, Metelkova, LjubljanaConcert date: May 19, 2011Attendance: 250Ticket price: €20 The day before the end of the world that never came was just the right date for some sonic catharsis and another, by now almost traditional…

Author: Urban BoltaPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Ljubljana / Križanke / SloveniaConcert date: 18.05.2011Attendance: 3000Ticket price: 22€ It was a beautiful, sun-soaked Thursday afternoon, and the sound of a soundcheck was echoing…

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Rožnik / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: May 16, 2011Attendance: 3,500Ticket price: €0.00 (free entry!) May has rolled around again, and with it a fresh alibi for student partying…

An outstanding evening of live music. Three bands, three completely different concert adventures and experiences. Each has its own charm, each preaches in its own language. A must for all fans of classic sounds, and for anyone who cares…

Author: Rok Klemše Location: Gala hala, LjubljanaConcert date: 13.05.2011Attendance: 150 Another one in the string of death metal shows that Dirty Skunks keep feeding us so diligently has come and gone, and this sunny Saturday we were all…

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Ternitz / Stadthalle Ternitz / AustriaConcert date: May 13, 2011Attendance: 1300Ticket price: €30.90 That's what happens when Uriah Heep set off on a new European tour and lock in…

If there's one band in Slovenia that makes a sound all its own and can stand next to the world's best in both creativity and quality, it's Demolition Group. They're one of the few Slovenian acts to find success on foreign stages, and local…

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Gasometer / Vienna / AustriaConcert date: 11.05.2011Attendance: 3500Ticket price: €41.60 That's how it goes. Every band out on the road. Money! If it's not coming from record…

Author: Rok KlemšePhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: KSET, Zagreb, CroatiaConcert date: 07.05.2011Attendance: 120Ticket price: 120 KN/150 KN Ever since they formed in 1982, Canadian progressive thrash metal outfit Voivod have been stirring…

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: Dom pristaniških delavcev (Teatro Miela) / Trieste / ItalyConcert date: 05.05.2011Attendance: 300Ticket price: €26.00 John Waite, the great AOR vocalist of the golden age of the…

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: Kongresszentrum (Josef Resch Saal) / Villach / AustriaConcert date: 05.05.2011Attendance: 2,500Ticket price: €33.00 / €39.00 Nazareth, the illustrious legends of rock, highlanders from…

Author: Rok KlemšePhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: Boogaloo / Zagreb / CroatiaConcert date: 28.04.2011Attendance: 800Ticket price: 27.49€ German power metal giants Blind Guardian, from the small northern German town of Krefeld, show not the…

"It's all right there in front of you! It works in synergy! It generates itself, amplifies itself and fertilizes itself. The essence of musical magic, shining in full. On the club scene, you simply can't ask for more! If you're a…

Photos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Ljubljana / Orto bar / SloveniaConcert date: 22.04.2011Attendance: 70Ticket price: €5 in advance | €7 on the day of the show Adam, the very synonym for creative Slovenian rock, are a year past their debut…

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: New Age / Roncade (Treviso) / ItalyConcert date: April 21, 2011Attendance: 450Ticket price: €25.00 Blackfield, the international project of Porcupine Tree boss Steven Wilson and…

Author: Rok Klemše Venue: Cvetličarna VPK, LjubljanaConcert date: 04/20/2011Attendance: 700Ticket price: €15 / €18 on the night Some gigs are the ones you feel you ought to go to. Others are the ones you wander off to because you've got…

Picking a winner of the night would be completely pointless, since all three bands nailed their mission and convinced everyone there that the faith in heavy metal is far from dead among the younger bands too.

Location: Cvetličarna / LjubljanaConcert date: 15.04.2011Attendance: 700Ticket price: 20 € Usually I'm not into checking out tribute bands. At least not when it comes to bands that are still "alive". With Queen, sadly, we can't see them…

Author: Urban Bolta Location: Rock Cafe / Prague / Czech RepublicConcert date: 15.04.2011Attendance: 0Ticket price: 19€ Two death metal icons from opposite ends of the world joined forces to show us their own take on death. Before them,…

Author: Urban BoltaPhotos: Urban Bolta Venue: Orto bar / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 14.04.2011Attendance: 120Ticket price: 7€ /9€ The twelfth edition of Orto Fest, the yearly club festival at the beloved Ljubljana club, is in full…

Photos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: Cvetličarna / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: 13.04.2011Attendance: 800Ticket price: 29 € For a few reasons, I've always seen Parni Valjak more as a club band than as a big-stage concert attraction.…

Author: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Arena / Zagreb / CroatiaConcert date: 13.04.2011Attendance: 20Ticket price: €50.75 (floor) Exactly four years after his last solo tour, on which he played Pink Floyd's entire "The Dark Side Of The Moon"…

"Seeing these unyielding prog rock legends live in Italy is always an extraordinary, unforgettable and deeply emotional experience, because these thunderous heralds of the post-apocalypse have always enjoyed the greatest respect among…

Opća OpasnostApril 9, 2011Brežice / MC Brežice / Slovenia Croatian hard rockers Opća Opasnost are back from the dead. They made a spectacular comeback on July 10, 2008, opening for the legendary Whitesnake in Osijek alongside Divlje…

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: Mladinski center / Brežice / SloveniaConcert date: 09.04.2011Attendance: 100Ticket price: 7,00€ The reawakened Croatian hard rockers Opća Opasnost, who spectacularly revived their…

Author: Peter PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: Teatro Comunale / Vicenza / ItalyConcert date: 08.04.2011Attendance: 2000Ticket price: €40.00 (advance) / €48.00 (day of show) The British titans of prog rock Van Der Graaaf…

Author: Urban Bolta Venue: Roll Bar / LjubljanaConcert date: 07.04.2011Attendance: 100Ticket price: free entry It hasn't even been a year since the last (well, the first) Lene Kosti show at Roll Bar in BTC, and the second one is already…

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Boogaloo / Zagreb / CroatiaConcert date: April 5, 2011Attendance: 130 Grave Digger, the classic old-school heavy metal band from Germany, are showing zero signs of cooling off.…

Author: Peter PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Mediolanum / Milan / ItalyConcert date: 02.04.2011Attendance: 13 The Rockline crew got a rather special chance in Milan to catch a concert by the legendary Roger Waters, the…

Author: Urban BoltaPhotos: Rok Klemše Venue: Orto bar, LjubljanaConcert date: 31.03.2011Attendance: 100Ticket price: 18€ / 22€ And we're off! As tradition dictates, Ortofest threw open its doors at the start of April. It's the only real…

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Ljubljana / Cvetličarna MediaPark / SloveniaConcert date: 03/31/2011Attendance: 400Ticket price: €25.00 On the last day of March this year, Slovenian metal promoter Sindian…

"Vanden Plas in every village!"

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Vienna / Szene / AustriaConcert date: 25.03.2011Attendance: 100Ticket price: €20.00 Vanden Plas are German prog metallers who helped shape and cement the genre back in the…

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Ljubljana / Dom Španskih borcev / SloveniaConcert date: 24.03.2011Attendance: 80Ticket price: €2.00 (high school students, university students, people with disabilities), €4.00…

Author: Rok KlemšePhotos: Nina Grad Venue: Menza pri koritu, LjubljanaConcert date: March 23, 2011Attendance: 100Ticket price: 12€ Crowds usually don't take it well (and we're no exception) when bands keep coming back to our local stages,…

Author: Rok Klemše Location: Cvetličarna, LjubljanaConcert date: 22.03.2011Attendance: 700Ticket price: 25€ Over the last few years, the bigger concert booking agencies have been increasingly adopting the American festival-tour model,…

Author: Sandi Sadar Šoba Location: Ljubljana / Orto bar / SloveniaConcert date: 20.03.2011Attendance: 40Ticket price: €8 (reservation) / €12 (no reservation) Sundays aren't the best day for gigs, but the thrash treat at Ljubljana's Orto,…

Author: Rok KlemšePhotos: Rok Klemše Venue: Szene, Vienna, AustriaConcert date: March 20, 2011Attendance: 700Ticket price: €20/€24 These days metal has a nice number of oddballs who make music outside every frame, brilliantly and…

Location: Ljubljana, Cvetličarna MediaPark, SloveniaDate: 10.03.2011 The Power of Metal tour brought Finnish power metallers Thaurorod to our shores for the first time, Denmark's Mercenary back once again, and, for the first time…

"We witnessed a top-notch live show, the kind only seasoned old cats can put on, still pouring their whole heart into their music. "

Avtor: Rok Klemše Kraj: MK Kotlovnica, KamnikDatum koncerta: 17.03.2011Število obiskovalcev: 90 After a while, the stage at Kamnik's Kotlovnica came back to life, this time luring people into its den with a three-band bill: brand-new…

Author: Peter PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Ampere / Munich / GermanyConcert date: 03/15/2011Attendance: 400Ticket price: €30.50 You could already smell spring in the air when it was time for a concert trip to Munich, where…

Author: Rok KlemšePhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Ljubljana / Cvetličarna MediaPark / SloveniaConcert date: 14.03.2011Attendance: 600Ticket price: 25,00€ Swedish power metal sensation Sabaton, whose popularity has been climbing steeply…

Author: Rok Klemše Venue: Orto bar, LjubljanaConcert date: 11.03.2011Attendance: 90 As it headed toward its final demise and bloody breakup, the territory of the former Yugoslavia was musically wildly varied and rich. In the late…

Author: Urban Bolta Location: Klub Fleda / Brno / Czech RepublicConcert date: 11.03.2011Attendance: 500Ticket price: 23€ Older fans of rock music love to tell us youngsters, with a real glow in their eyes, about the old days, when whole…

Author: Rok KlemšePhotos: Nina Grad Location: Ljubljana / Cvetličarna / SloveniaConcert date: 09.03.2011Attendance: 600 The Power of Metal tour brought Finnish power metallers Thaurorod to our shores for the first time, Denmark's…

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Ljubljana / Scratch bar / SloveniaConcert date: March 5, 2011Attendance: 80Ticket price: €0.00 (free entry!) A new era. An era of debauchery. Carnival Saturday. Yet another excuse…