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Europe (support: The Damn Truth)Vienna (Wien) / Raiffeisen Halle im Gasometer / AustriaSaturday / 10/17/2026 / The Damn Truth (7:30 PM - 8:15 PM), Europe (8:45 PM - 10:15 PM) "Clinically clean cuts in a sterile environment" This…

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…

LovebitesWednesday, July 22, 2026Flex, Vienna, Austria "13 Love Bites" The pint-sized Japanese powerhouses Lovebites had been on my "must go" gig list for quite a while, and this time a work trip to Vienna lined up perfectly with…

FLOWFriday, 31 October 2025Vienna / YuniCon - Multiverse Schwechat / Austria Ahh, FLOW… The band that sends every Japanophile and otaku's serotonin skyrocketing has finally made it to our neck of the woods — specifically to the…

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…

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…

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: 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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

Location: Vienna (Wien) / Simm City / AustriaDate: Monday, 02.12.2019 This December isn't just packed with the seizure-inducing, vomit-triggering strains of Last Christmas, Silent Night, and New Year's Kiss — thankfully, it's also full…

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…

Location: Gasometer, Vienna, AustriaWhen: Wednesday, 16 October 2019 2018 was a rough year for Machine Head. Robb Flynn was left almost on his own when long-standing members Phil Demmel and Dave McClain walked out. Sure, neither was an…

With a setlist running over two hours, Between The Buried And Me delivered an excellent cross-section of their entire career while showcasing incredible tightness and extreme stamina.

Location: Vienna / club Flex / Austria Date: Saturday, 10 August 2019 American progressive rockers Coheed And Cambria are pushing hard to promote their latest album Vaxis I (review HERE). The focus is mostly on the US leg of the…

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…

"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 / Wiener Stadthalle, Halle F / Austria date: 23.06.2018 The most important band in the history of progressive rock, King Crimson, who celebrate their fiftieth anniversary this November 30, rolled into Vienna's…

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,…

place: Vienna / Gasometer / Austria date: February 14, 2018 No question about it! Whenever Steven Wilson goes on tour, it's pretty much a given that you have to catch him live at least once! Steven is an outstanding musician,…

"Vincent Damon Furnier, as Alice Cooper's real name goes, turns a round seventy next February, and he remains the guarantee of everything a good rock'n'roll spectacle demands."

"From what we heard and saw, the Accept classics sound even more convincing in the hands of Dirkschneider than in the live set of today's Accept. Simple as that. The vocals decide. And Udo is still the number one Accept voice, even though…

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…

"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."

"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…

"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. "

"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."

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

"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: 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…

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 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…