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Deep Purple (support: Jayler)Monday, Oct. 5, 2026, 7:30 PM to 10:40 PMVienna (Wien) / Wiener Stadthalle - Halle D / Austria Who would have believed it, who would have dared to predict anything? Deep Purple, one of the essential, if…

Spread Eagle, the cult American hard rock band, will play Velden am Wörthersee in Carinthia, Austria on 2 September 2026, at the Bluesiana Rock Cafe, as part of a short tour in support of their latest studio album "The Brutal Divide". …

SweetThursday, 2 July 2026, 8:10 PM – 9:50 PMLatschach Am Faaker See / Burgarena Finkenstein / Austria Sweet are one of those bands that defined the look and sound of '70s rock, and their presence and music had a very real impact on the…

Vicious Rumors (support acts: Broken Wings, Inner Enemy)Wednesday, 3 June 2026Velden am Wörthersee / Bluesiana Rock Cafe / Austria Vicious Rumors are a cult old-school American heavy metal outfit from the San Francisco Bay Area…

Kiko Loureiro (support act: Andy Addams)Sunday, November 30, 2025Velden am Wörthersee / Bluesiana Rock Cafe / Austria Bluesiana — that lone beacon of rock and roll, always the finest blues, and occasionally some metal-sharpened…

Uriah Heep, April Wine, Heavy Pettin'Friday, October 24, 2025Vienna / Gasometer / Austria Some tours just have to happen. Tours of legendary bands. The ones no self-respecting rocker would ever deny as a monumental source of…

Acts: Tobbaco Road Blues Band / Nazareth / Bonnie Tyler / Uriah HeepDate: Friday, 25 July 2025, from 5:00 PM to 11:00 PMLocation: Moosburg (Možberk) / Schlosswiese / Austria Uriah Heep and Nazareth are old acquaintances. Two…

Paul Gilbert BandSaturday, 5 July 2025, 9:40–10:30 PMVelden am Wörthersee / Bluesiana Rock Cafe / Austria Paul Gilbert is back at Bluesiana! Fascinating beyond all limits and utterly one-of-a-kind — the 'on-call firefighter with his…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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: 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…

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…

Joe SatrianiVienna (Wien) / Wiener Stadthalle – Halle F / AustriaSaturday, 8 April 2023, at 8:00 pm (please scroll down the bar for an English version) Joe Satriani has finally made it to Europe. On his third attempt. No need to…

Location: Vienna / Gasometer / AustriaDate: Sunday, 23 Oct. 2022 The Gasometer concert hall in Vienna was bursting at the seams on the second-to-last Sunday in October, packed with fans of the iconic English progressive rock band…

Location: Graz / Messe Open Air / AustriaDate: Friday, July 29, 2022 Steve Lukather, exceptional musician and composer, that wonderful man of undecayed heart who has at least as many lives as the legendary art-rock sensation Toto —…

Performing: Terra Toma, Throwback, Street To The Ocean, Kill The LycanWhere: Vienna / Szene / AustriaWhen: 6 Nov 2021Published: 11.11.2021Upcoming events: Metalnight Outbreak Szene Vienna Vol.8 For its sixth edition — right in the…

Artists: Feinstaub, April Art, Kiss Forever Band, Mono Inc. Venue: Leoben / VAZ - Schladnitz / AustriaDate: 15 July 2021 Leoben, Austria. Summer. July 2021. After a year off, Area 53 festival is back. Yeah, for real. There are…

"It looks like that evening in Graz, the fun factor won with Warkings, who delivered the ultimate peak of power metal thrills."

Babymetal proved at their sold-out Gasometer show that they're no one-hit wonder. Their popularity is growing fast. And with multiple generations in the crowd, the next visit could be even bigger.

"Everyone in the venue had a blast in that spectacular power metal carousel that evening. The energy was excellent once again, and it's truly remarkable how HammerFall, despite the declining interest in power metal, keep drawing the crowds…

Despite a far-from-cheerful setlist, Leprous managed to conjure up a genuinely special atmosphere at Graz's Explosiv club, keeping the crowd on their feet right to the end. And credit where it's due — support acts Klone and Maraton were…

Venue: Vienna / Gasometer / AustriaWhen: Friday, 24 Jan 2020 Sum 41 are one of the bigger, more recognizable bands of the last few decades in their genre, and like many of their peers, they've been making their way back to the surface…

"Deep Purple ride on, then. Into infinity, into eternity! The iconic group crossed into myth and legend long ago. Given the form on display, the farewell is going to last a good while yet. And that's a good thing!"

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…

The Rotting Christ and Moonspell concert package, warmed up by a razor-sharp Silver Dust, proved that evening to be a sinfully worthwhile visit to Graz's Dom Im Berg.

Where: Vienna / Gasometer / AustriaWhen: Sunday, 06. 10. 2019 A few years ago it was hard to imagine that one of the biggest metalcore bands could ever come back. Let alone that they'd manage to convince fans to give them a second…

Phil Collins showed off at Vienna's Ernst Happel stadium exactly why he's one of the biggest music stars of our time, and why it'll be a terribly sad day for the music world when he finally says goodbye.

Location: Vienna / Wiener Stadthalle (Halle D) / AustriaDate: Wednesday, 01.05.2019 The yellow brick road doesn't just lead to Oz. In a career stretching all the way back to 1962, the one and only Sir Elton John has walked it too.…

The smaller hall of Vienna's Arena hosted a show that fans of technical and progressive death metal welcomed with open arms. Obscura, together with Fallujah, Allegaeon and First Fragment, put on an unforgettable night despite the hall's…

Location: Velden Am Wörthersee / Bluesiana Rock Cafe / Austria Date: Friday, February 22, 2019 Ian Siegal is a British blues singer-songwriter. Guitar slung over his shoulder, armed with an incredible vocal chameleon act. Hugely respected…

"Last year we spent Valentine's Day in Vienna catching Steven Wilson, and this year we treated ourselves to the legendary Uriah Heep in Vienna on Valentine's Day again."

In Vienna, Maestro Wilson reminded us once again why he's the driving force of modern progressive rock with no real competition, and why catching his show is a must for every music lover with eclectic taste and every fan of experimental…

"Speechless. Superb sound, superb production, superb performance. Not a single note worth complaining about. Perfection. At a Marillion show you can hear a pin drop. Once again they won everyone over with their atmospheric hypnosis and…

In front of a packed Wiener Stadthalle, which holds 16,000 people, cult thrash metallers Slayer rolled in on their farewell tour with Lamb of God, Anthrax and Obituary in tow, playing their career highlights one last time.

A packed Flex club in Vienna, hosting Tesseract, Between the Buried and Me and Plini, showed there's growing interest in bands that put the unusual and the diverse front and center.

Location: Vienna / Arena Open Air / AustriaDate: June 30, 2018 Everyone who goes to concerts has a list of acts they simply have to see live at some point. For me personally, and I'm sure for plenty of others too, one of those is…

Location: Vienna (Wien) / Gasometer / AustriaDate: 29.03.2018 The gig season is relentless. Slovenia alone has a small sea of concerts, and neighboring Austria has even more. This time the "The Final March" tour rolled into Vienna,…

"The pact with the devil lives on, unblemished."

"With Sepultura, Obscura, Goatwhore and Fit For An Autopsy on the bill, Graz's Explosiv club undoubtedly lived up to its name."

Rage, the Hamburg metal veterans, and Firewind, fronted by Ozzy's guitar hero Gus G, hit the road together and make a stop in Salzburg!

"The image we've been missing all these years is also, let's hope, one that will (be)come a fixture of the new era, with which L.A. Guns will keep delighting their fans for many years to come."

Location: Velden am Wörthersee (Vrba na Koroškem), Carinthia / Bluesiana Rock Cafe / Austria Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2017 On April 25, 2017, Mr. Blaze Bayley played the famous Carinthian temple of music known as Bluesiana Rock…

Location: Velden Am Wörthersee / Bluesiana Rock Cafe / Austria Date: Thursday, 04/13/2017 It doesn't happen all that often that a band from the days when glam metal was riding its commercial peak stops by somewhere near us. Ladies…

Location: Vienna / Simm City / AustriaDate: February 16, 2017 The legendary Glenn Hughes is the man who picked up the flattering nickname "The Voice Of Rock" a long, long time ago. After a good while away, and especially after his…

"HammerFall remain a waterproof, rustproof machine that keeps up an incredible level of performance conviction and a unique charm and charisma."

Location: Graz / Explosiv / AustriaDate: Saturday, 28.01.2017 The day had come when the author of this piece, a die-hard Grave Digger fan with a long career of fandom behind them, set off for their (round-number) tenth show by this…

"Riding the wings of the untamed, phenomenal Bobby "Blitz," whom the years simply refuse to touch and who once again stunned with an unbelievable vocal performance, the band saved one more surprise: Elimination from the album "The Years of…

"Nick Barrett and his unruly Pendragon crew spoiled us for almost three hours with the sonic perfection of wide-open ambient landscapes."

"Toto have reached the point where any show could be their last, so fans like us know to cherish every chance to still catch them live, whenever one comes along, all the more."

Location: Graz / Explosiv / AustriaDate: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 With interest in classic European power metal sinking all around, the tour by the legendary Hamburg heavy metallers Gamma Ray was a real balm for the few lonely…

Location: Salzburg / Rockhouse / AustriaDate: 09/16/2015 Salzburg, the picturesque Austrian city best known for Mozart's legacy, its old baroque center and the nearby salt mine, played host to Glenn 'the Voice of Rock' Hughes, the…

Location: Graz / PPC / AustriaDate: Monday, 09.02.2015 HammerFall are back at full concert gallop! Nearly two decades have flown by in a stormy, lightning-fast blur since 1997, when the band was formed in Gothenburg, Sweden, and…

Location: Graz / Stadthalle / AustriaDate: Sunday, 23.11.2014 This time around, Graz's Stadthalle played host to Peter Gabriel, one of the most colorful musical artists and vocal icons of all time. The hugely charismatic Gabriel…

"Zak was, as expected, a chapter all his own. With his beautifully preserved vocal cords he sounds almost identical to twenty years ago, and with his enviable stage charisma he carried half of this rather demanding, acoustic-flavored Circle…

"Aynsley Lister is the right address for a first-rate formula that fuses blues and rock into a solid, tangible musical conglomerate, sensually charged throughout with just the right dose of infectious melody."

"Next time Wilson comes around, though, Vienna will have to move the show to a bigger, classier hall, because judging by the crowds he pulls, Steven has clearly outgrown venues on the level of Ottakringer Brauerei, no matter how much the…

Location: Bluesiana Rock Cafe / Velden Am Wörthersee (Velden) / AustriaDate: Wednesday, 19.03.2014 With so-called all-star lineups, the first question is usually: what can musicians coming from such different genres even play…

" Steel Panther get a fast-track entry visa to what regular mortals of the male persuasion usually aren't meant to get. Well, at least not every day. They could've had every single woman in the hall that night for free. On Michael's…

Location: Graz / Stadthalle / AustriaDate: 18.11.2013 When I first heard about the Volbeat tour with Iced Earth as the support act, I figured it had to be a mistake. Iced Earth are veterans, after all, with roots going back to the…

"You could write a truly exhaustive analysis of this show and still miss the point. The point is that a Steven Wilson concert, just like Porcupine Tree, is something you simply have to experience."

"From a good hour and a half of hanging out, we got exactly what we expected: an outstanding performance of old-school material that Queensrÿche fans, let's be honest, have been craving something fierce in recent years. "

"A true rocker's heart is impossible to crush. And both Pretty Maids and Pink Cream 69 proved it with a vengeance, in the rawest, most honest light. Exactly the way the magic of the European hard rock Bible knows it."

Location: Faak Am See (Faaker See) / Harley Davidson Bikers Week / AustriaConcert date: Friday, September 6, 2013 This year's edition of the bikers' week at Faaker See, by the village of Faak Am See near Villach, kicked off the…

"Anyone who wants an evening of pure sonic perfection, shamelessly infectious melodies and boundless virtuosity, delivered through some of the biggest rock classics of the seventies and eighties, "

"Even though both Beardfish and Sound of Contact lived up to the big expectations, the Spock's Beard guys proved in the end who the 'main men' were, more than justified their status as the evening's headliners, and above all confirmed once…

"Alan Parsons Live Project's show in Vienna can only be described as pure sonic perfection, the kind you can these days catch at only a handful of concerts by musicians who have devoted most of their careers to art rock refinement and…

"Once again it was one of those gigs that leave you gaping in post-show afterglow for days. Justin and the band don't let you catch your breath for a second while you share the live magic with them"

"The Vienna show was one of the last on this year's European tour, and you could feel it: more energy, more ease, and a band playing even tighter than usual."

Location: Velden Am Wörthersee / Bluesiana Rock Cafe / AustriaDate: Wednesday, 7. 9. 2011 Carl Verheyen is a guitar wizard: a renowned, in-demand and hugely sought-after studio guitarist, a touring sideman for Supertramp back in the day…

"Vanden Plas in every village!"

"So Lynch mob didn't disappoint. It wasn't the tightly orchestrated show we got the day before at Satrijani, but the intimate vibe, a lot like the one at Bluesiana in Carinthia, plus the spontaneity and chemistry of four seasoned stage cats…

"A voltage-charged show confirmed the band's incredible form. There's only one thing you'd wish for: that a band like this always gets a stage big enough to unleash its famous horror theater to the max."

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…

Location: Vienna / Arena / Austria Date: Wednesday, 08.10.2008 October 2008! Thin Lizzy are heading out on a European tour with Uriah Heep, but before that they play four shows without Uriah Heep. One of them is in Vienna, which, for…

"The Verve closed out the night with the song "Disco". The crowd sang loudly along with the guys one last time. The lights went out. Until we meet again."

Location: Vienna / Planet Music / AustriaDate: 20.10.2007 The most tempting lures for metal shows among our northern neighbors, Graz's Orpheum and Vienna's Planet Music, served up a gourmet treat for metal ears and a neck-muscle…

"The show by the "depleted" Genesis, whose lineup shortfall of two progressive heavyweights barely showed in the setlist (honestly, it's almost impossible to compare two completely different bands), turned out to be one of the most magical…

Location: Faak Am See / AustriaDate: Friday, 08.09.2006 That's never happened to me before: finding out, through a random chat, only one day ahead that Alvin Lee is playing somewhere near Villach the next day. It was right before…

""Twenty-four years without new songs or a studio album? Some bands have to put out records every year or the market spits them out and forgets them. The Who have something that already puts them among the immortals."

"Quite a few people headed back to the "camp" to snore after Robert Plant. The appetite just ran out before Roxy Music. But the "headliner" role of the evening fell to Roxy Music more than deservedly. They set the place on fire above all…

"The chemistry between the crowd and the band was incredible all night. Not a single flub to be heard. Purple took our breath away (as always) with their famous trademarks. Flawless solos and songs flowing into one another through witty…

"With his energetic, professional performance, Emerson proved that after all these years he's still the very definition of a pro keyboardist, even though some had been ready to write him off before the show. He's still a real fast-fingered…

"The Darkness are an unbelievably fired-up, energetic young band who simply made it. What stands out is how incredibly approachable they are with the crowd, without a trace of the snobbery you might expect from a group whose videos get spun…

Location: Vienna (Wien) / Planet Music / Austria Date: 22.03.2003 FOR AN ENGLISH VERSION, please scroll down the bar! The old town of our visits, on the perfect day, a Saturday! Late in the afternoon we were the first to burst…

"Guess what Dio saved for last? Heaven came next and... hell. Yes!!! "Heaven And Hell", with the stage wrapped in black and a spotlight beaming red light up from below onto Dio's face, so Ronnie looked like the real devil. Ahh, that…