CUK Kino Šiška

Danko Jones (support: Split Dogs)Thursday, October 22, 2026Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / Slovenia Danko Jones is a killer Canadian rock outfit led by a frontman, guitarist, main songwriter and visionary by the name of… Danko Jones.…

A good 100 days before MENT, we're meeting up in Šiška for šMENT – a mini-festival for everyone who can't wait until February. One Friday, two stages and 5 bands await. That corto.alto, a Scottish wunderkind at the crossroads of…

After a sold-out show at Katedrala in 2023, the legendary British gothic rock band The Mission are heading back to Kino Šiška with a new album. Vital, unpredictable and always brilliant, the band are also celebrating 40 years together and…

Kublai Khan TX, Malevolence, BoundariesTuesday, June 9, 2026, 7:00 PM – 10:30 PMLjubljana // CUK Kino Šiška // Slovenia Kublai Khan TX, Malevolence, and Boundaries. A triple dose of crushing metalcore straight to the skull! Exactly…

Performers: Kataklysm, Vader, Blood Red ThroneDate: Thursday, March 5, 2026Location: Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / Slovenia This kind of lineup doesn't come to Slovenia every day. Sure, Kataklysm have practically been granted…

The organizer of Thursday's Kataklysm, Vader and Blood Red Throne show in Ljubljana has announced the running order for the bands. So, to recap: Thursday, 5. 3. 2026, Ljubljana (CUK Kino Šiška), Slovenia Schedule: 5.3. Kataklysm,…

If there's no MENT, there's šMENT.Šiška MENT!Four seasons: we're kicking off with the šspring echo of the 12th edition, with a bunch of acts taking over Kino Šiška for one day.Coming? Šure thing!5 reasons for šMENT:- Porto Morto with a new…

On Monday, August 3, 2026, absolute musical oddballs are headed for Ljubljana: experimental funk metallers, metalheads "with a defect," or more precisely the one and only Primus. The musical vocabulary of this band is so all-encompassing…

Acts: Leprous, support: Ihlo & Crystal HorizonDate: Tuesday, February 3, 2026, 7:45 PM – 11:00 PMVenue: Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / Slovenia Every now and then a ray of light tied to the progressive rock genre manages to shine…

MENT Ljubljana 2026: The 12th Edition Is All About Bold Sounds and New Discoveries The music discovery festival and conference MENT Ljubljana has unveiled the music program for its 12th edition, taking place from February 18 to February…

Death To All are coming back to Ljubljana on June 23, 2026. It's an all-star crew playing the classics of death metal pioneers Death, and it features former members of the cult Florida band whose work laid the foundations of extreme metal!…

Gloryhammer / Visions Of Atlantis / Moonlight HazeWednesday, 9 July 2025, 19:00–22:30Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / Slovenia Gloryhammer confirmed the European dates of their new "Dundax Ascendant" tour back in March! At select shows…

Performing: Lintver / Eruption / ExodusDate: Tuesday, 24 June 2025Venue: Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / Slovenia Exodus are widely regarded as one of the most important bands to emerge from the San Francisco Bay Area at the turn of…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

W.A.S.P.Sunday, May 14th, 2023Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / Slovenia Some days just hit different. Days you can only call mandatory metal communion. This was one of those events that triggered a full-on pilgrimage of metal fans…

The Mission (supp. Wires & Lights)Friday, May 5, 2023Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / Slovenia The Mission, the cult British gothic and post-punk rock outfit, who, with their musical vision upon arriving on the scene in the…

Performers: Serpentyne, Temperance, Tarja TurunenLocation: Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / SloveniaDate: Friday, 3 March 2023 Tarja Turunen, one of the most impressive and genuinely standout heavy metal vocalists of our time — a…

Performers: Leprous / Monuments / KalandraVenue: Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / SloveniaDate: Tuesday, February 28, 2023 Leprous, those brilliant prog-metal oddballs, returned to Ljubljana on the last day of February this year to play…

Performing: Victorius, Elvenking, GloryhammerVenue: Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / SloveniaConcert date: Wednesday, 22 June 2022 Concerts have finally come back in full force. Bands are racing like mad to make up for everything they…

Alcest delivered a performance and setlist that more than lived up to the hype — their show can simply be described as nothing short of magical.

"Riverside remain true masters of their craft and prog rock diamonds of the first order. Abroad — especially in the Benelux countries, Germany, and Scandinavia — they've already broken through to genuine big-league status, filling large…

This past Monday evening at Kino Šiška was a packed affair full of brutality, hard-hitting riffs, and technical chops — courtesy of Thy Art Is Murder, Carnifex, Fit For An Autopsy, Rivers of Nihil, and I AM.

Venue: Kino Šiška / Ljubljana / SloveniaDate: Thursday, 5 December 2019 Swiss folk metallers Eluveitie have been making regular pilgrimages back to Slovenia over the past decade. The band has gone through a whole string of lineup…

Location: Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / SloveniaDate: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 When the concert was announced — P.O.D. and Alien Ant Farm coming to Ljubljana — plenty of people thought: wait, are those bands even still around?…

"The two-hour blast with Skunk Anansie at Kino Šiška will probably go down in the annals as one of the best concerts to happen on Slovenian soil this year, among club-level and indoor venue shows (comparisons with gigs at Arena Stožice,…

Your mandatory Sunday metal communion with Queensryche, Firewind and Mirror Plain at CUK Kino Šiška

"Die Ärzte - the legendary German punk rock trio, playing an exclusive club show in the heart of the Slovenian capital, threw a perfect party-theater extravaganza for their German-speaking crowd, who snapped up the tickets and sold the show…

Bullet For My Valentine won over a sold-out Kino Šiška with a tight, well-oiled show that lived up to expectations, with one exception: the whole thing was way too short.

Location: Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / SloveniaDate: Thursday, 03/21/2019 At first, it seemed like Icelandic outfit Solstafir would be just another band lost in the flood of post-metal/rock acts. They undoubtedly showed potential…

A half-empty Kino Šiška hall got a gig that will stay etched in memory. With their superb tightness, inventive setlist, stage lights and sound, Riverside made it clear they're no accident as one of the most respected prog rock bands around…

date: 31.10.2018 location: Ljubljana, CUK Kino Šiška, Slovenia performers: HammerFall, Armored Dawn October 31 - Halloween night. Yet another imported holiday pushed on us by Western consumer culture, though luckily it doesn't catch on…

Primal Fear and Riot V make a smart pairing of two hard-rock institutions who build their musical vocabulary on the old-school legacy of heavy metal. Primal Fear have played Slovenia three times, at the Metal Camp, Metal Mania and Rock…

location: Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / Slovenia date: 01.08.2018 This time Kino Šiška played host to famed American hard rockers Mr. Big, who had their biggest commercial successes in the early nineties with a handful of hits, among…

"Brand-new album in their pocket, Demolition Group showed once again on the big stage of Kino Šiška what a rock'n'roll machine they are, and how much punch their musical rhetoric packs when you give the band room to really stretch out on…

"With their first show in Slovenia, Trivium showed incredible tightness and the kind of professionalism that only comes from a lot of miles on the road. "

"The golden age of Therion is over, but that doesn't mean the band should be written off. With a more than solid show at Kino Šiška, Therion announced a new era and, at the same time, hope for the future."

Location: Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / SloveniaDate: 01.03.2017 It's unreal how time flies. Barely two and a half years have gone by since American alternative metallers Helmet dropped by CUK Kino Šiška on the tour where they played…

"Miha Kralj, whom some call the Yugoslav / Slovenian Jean-Michel Jarre (though he himself shies away from the nickname), reminded everyone in the Katedrala, the big hall of Kino Šiška, of his musical greatness, which even after all these…

"Several times the singer mentioned getting goosebumps from the crowd's response. I'm convinced that a guy who gets such an emotional reaction will give it everything to keep getting that “fix”, and that's exactly what Sabaton do, which in…

"Kvelertak stopped by Ljubljana on a day off from their tour with Slayer and Anthrax, and the band once again proved they're in killer live form and simply one of the best live bands around right now."

"The source of true Slavic fire whenever she passionately wields her Fender Stratocaster toy! This time was no different. Another great experience."

"»Zlagano sonce« gives the band new wings, new flight, new drive. Plenty of live shows are on the way, a whole bag of club thunder. The fantastic night at CUK Kino Šiška was merely the overture to the hot gig days that this year will write…

"Overkill served up a fitting cross-section of thirty-five years of making noise, then closed out eight hours of Day of Metal with a classic cover and the perfect send-off for the night: Fuck You!"

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: Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / SloveniaDate: Friday, October 19, 2013 CUK Kino Šiška hosted a very special celebration last weekend: a glamorous show from the folk art rock outfit Katalena, backed by all of its musical…

"The Pumpkins are no doubt one of Germany's biggest bands and will always be welcome here, but they're capable of way better, and that setlist could really use a serious shake-up. Gamma Ray, on the other hand, blew everyone away."

Location: Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / SloveniaDate: Monday, 21.05.2012 Boštjan Narat is a poet, a musician, even a philosopher, known to everyone as the frontman and guitarist of Katalena and, now more than ever, a…

Location: Ljubljana, CUK Kino Šiška, SloveniaDate: Saturday, January 22, 2012 The great Finnish singer Tarja Turunen, best known to most as the first and former voice of Finnish symphonic power metallers Nightwish, is diligently…

Performing: Death Destruction, Amaranthe, Vicious Rumors, HammerFallLocation: Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / SloveniaDate: 03.12.2011 HammerFall is that musical outfit that hit the scene at the right time, in the right place. Back…

"In Flames delivered an unforgettable get-together and satisfied a jam-packed Kino Šiška, whose walls were bursting at the seams and buckling under the band's unstoppable alter-metal barrage!"

Location: Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / SloveniaDate: January 26, 2011 The thirteenth studio album, "7 Sinners" (2010), has finally brought the Hamburg pumpkin-heads to the Slovenian capital! For the second time overall. Almost…

Location: Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / SloveniaDate: 04.11.2009 With a live broadcast from Ljubljana's Kino Šiška, Val 202, the second program of Radio Slovenia, presented the live compilation CD "VAL 09 - Imamo dobro glasbo", which…