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Another year has rolled around, and the Slovenian live underground's favorite pets have blown out another candle!

Thursday swung from one extreme to the other, and for plenty of people it ended up being the festival's peak.

Kranj's annual youth week, held every May, traditionally looks after the heavy metal crowd too. This time Mist, Dekadent and The Canyon Observer took the stage in front of Down Town.

Local heroes The Canyon Observer can proudly call themselves the first Slovenian band to experience what it's like to play in Cuba. After seven shows (the eighth was cancelled because the venue had no electricity), they went practically…

The debut from Ljubljana atmospheric sludge outfit The Canyon Observer is a half-hour tantric coitus, with moments like gentle lovemaking on the Titanic and moments that are pure BDSM.

New name, same location, even better vibe and an unforgettable musical experience! All that and more was this year's MetalDays, which carries on down the road of MetalCamp, only now that road is no longer just gravel but paved and lit!

Chapter II: These Binds Will Set You Free picks up the story the band started with their debut, and carries the band's own evolution forward too. The heart of what the band is about stays the same, but countless nuances have crept into…

While the more mainstream-leaning metalheads were partying at Kino Šiška for the Megadeth show, those of us with blacker souls headed to Gromka on Sunday, June 3, for a doom feast served up by The Canyon Observer, Ophis, Esoteric and Ahab.…

For the last stop of their tour, Irish post-rockers God is an Astronaut played Kino Šiška again on Friday, March 16, after a gap of just under a year. I'd gone to their show last April too. Back then they were a complete unknown to me, and…

A midnight trip through the dreamy landscapes of flawless yet never pretentious sludge opens your pores, and through the third eye the listener slides, right at home, onto the divine axis of the universe.