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The traveling mini festival ‘Bands Without Borders’ is coming to clubs at home and around the region! Bands Without Borders isn't just another classic concert tour – it's a one-of-a-kind traveling mini festival that brings together…

Škou Šou 2026 (Elvis Jackson, Demm, Enginetail, Gal Holly Fischer Band)Saturday, 10/10/2026Bar Hiša mladih, Ajdovščina, Slovenia "Jebeš wrwžje! Info: Škou Šou is a charity event raising funds to subsidize therapy for young people…

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…

Wajdooshna Rocks mini festivalFriday, 11 Sept 2026Letališče, Ajdovščina, Slovenia "Does Ajdovščina even deserve a rock festival?" The Wajdooshna rocks festival was dogged by bad luck right from the start. The original date, 21…

Vio-Lence, Angelus Apatrida, Cutthorat LAFriday, August 14, 2026, from 9:30 PM onZabok / ZCUK Renegerator / Croatia It's not every day you head off to a gig in Croatia and it's not Zagreb, Pula or Split. The Metal Resurrection…

ROOTS IN THE WOODS 2026 August 20–22, 2026 RTC Trije Kralji na Pohorju, Slovenska Bistrica THE 8TH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF REGGAE, DUB AND SOUND SYSTEM CULTURE RETURNS TO POHORJE FROM AUGUST 20 TO 22 From August 20 to 22,…

A gorgeous, sunny Saturday morning was perfect for a stroll around Stykkishólmur with journalist and sociologist Arnar Eggert Thoroddsen, who shared stories, anecdotes, and the history of Icelandic metal. That Stykkishólmur itself is a…

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…

26TH ORTO FESTMarch 26 – April 25, 2025,ORTO BAR, LJUBLJANATHE 26TH MONTH-LONG INTERNATIONAL CLUB FESTIVAL ORTO FEST SERVES UP ANOTHER GREAT LINEUP OF LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL BANDS THIS YEAR From March 26 to April 25, 2026, Orto Bar in…

Legendary Motörhead guitarist Philip Campbell is heading to the little village of Koritnica, deep in the heart of Baška grapa (Tolmin municipality), on Saturday, May 9, 2026! He and his band Phil Campbell And The Bastards Sons will play as…

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…

BasinfirefestSaturday, 28 June 2025Spálené Poříčí / Festivalový areál / Czech Republic Extending our stay in the Czech Republic — especially after the AC/DC temptation on 26 June 2025 at the Prague venue Letnany — was…

Acts: Blind Guardian, Kissin' Dynamite, Gamma Ray, H.E.A.T, Dynazty, AxxisDate: Friday, December 13, 2024Venue: Schwabenhalle, Augsburg, Germany Kai Hansen trying to breathe new life into Gamma Ray? Where better to catch that than…

Event: Moon & Stars festival, headliners Status QuoDate: July 12, 2024Location: Piazza Grande, Locarno, Switzerland "Current status: black and white" Sometimes, even as a hardened and battle-worn metalhead, life drops you in…

Mary RoseFriday, 12 July 2024, at 9:00 PMPostojna / Titov trg / Slovenia Those Fridays do come around. Eventually. July ones. Locked into scorching dog days that know how to fray the nerves. Days when you stare at a restless sky,…

Horst Franz (Horst Odermatt), the organizer of the legendary Bang Your Head!!! festival, which took place every year in the German town of Balingen, has died at the age of 60. For many years (since 2006, to be exact), Horst also organized…

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…

Thursday, 28 November 2019 Winter Days of Metal keeps growing in stature year after year. On top of the evening concerts, there's a whole range of other activities on offer — though this year's weather wasn't exactly playing along for…

"Two soggy thirds of Bang Your Head 2019 are in the books, and now comes the last one. Day three! And this one was finally dry. The program that day was carved out mostly in the old-school metal mold, with a few welcome detours courtesy of…

And on the very last day, instead of a souvenir shirt, the organizers could've just printed "I Survived the Hell of Metaldays 2019" tees, because weather-wise this year's festival was without a doubt one of the hottest ever. But we scraped…

"If you're a true fan of 80s glam metal, the kind that grew up around the Sunset Strip, then you know nothing but pure bliss at a Steel Panther show"

Thursday in Tolmin promised hellish heat again, and the organizers warned festival-goers about it too. In weather like this, the nearby river and the free drinking water all over the festival grounds come in really handy. Thursday was also…

The golden mean turned out to be a hellish one this time, because Tolmin got probably one of the worst heat waves of the summer. But the most beautiful festival site in the world has the Soča to cool down overheated heads, loads of side…

"Day one's headliner at Bang Your Head, Michael Schenker, and his musical rondo that took us from the very beginning right through to the end of his career. Hands down the highlight of the day!"

Location: Ljubljana / Ljubljana Castle / SloveniaDate: Saturday, 29.06.2019 The third and final day of the first-ever Bluesland festival at Ljubljana Castle was kicked off by Shuffle Truffle! They're an Austrian blues rock trio made…

Location: Ljubljana / Ljubljanski grad / SloveniaDate: Friday, 28.06.2019 The last Friday of June 2019 is finally here. Another scorcher of a day, but also the centerpiece of this year's first edition of Bluesland, the festival that…

"Day one of Bluesland featured Bad Notion, Manu Lenvin and Mike Sponza, and the night was crowned by the arrival of the slender queen of modern blues rock, the superb Ana Popovič, who gave everyone a proper little guitar lesson in how to…

"Nothing left to add except that this year, in its 24th edition, the Jazz Cerkno festival once again blew everyone away, delivering a bunch of exclusive performances and brilliant live sensations"

"The second day of this year's 24th edition of Jazz Cerkno festival brought Koromač, Amirtha Kidambi Elder Ones and Luc Ex' Assemblée to the stages."

Location: Tolmin / Sotočje / Slovenia Date: Saturday, July 27, 2018 Five days of non-stop metal, and the last day of the festival still showed up way too soon. Thanks to the wonderful atmosphere, top-notch organization and a really…

"The band is surely not going to call it quits anytime soon. That much is certain. But if Judas Priest ever do decide to, it'll make perfect sense and be totally in order. They've done their thing. They have nothing left to prove. The only…

Location: Tolmin / Sotočje / Slovenia Date: 07/23/2018 Metaldays, which has been putting Slovenia on the map as a country with big metal festivals ever since 2004, is always a pleasure to come back to. Over the years it has become…

"So, to draw the line under it all: the first open air edition of Metaljot raspaljot will go down as a very warm memory. The festival's organization was top-notch and there were really no major shortcomings to speak of. The lineup was…

"Celebrating the 30th birthday of Slovenia's oldest heavy-sound festival, staged by the legendary Interceptor, with Big Bad Wolf, Fuck Logic and Marax along for the ride."

Location: Tolmin / Sotočje / SloveniaDate: 25.08.2017 And then came day two of the first (and historic) edition of the "Motörcity" festival in northern Primorska, on the idyllic spot where the Tolminka and Soča rivers meet. It's the…

Location: Tolmin / Sotočje / SloveniaDate: 24.08.2017 Gotta hand it to them. The crew behind Metaldays, PunkRock Holiday and Overjam has a huge heart. Fresh off trying out a winter edition of the famous Tolmin festival Metaldays,…

Location: Tolmin / Sotočje / SloveniaDate: Tuesday, 07/25/2017 After Monday's downpours we were all hoping Tuesday would feel a little less like Judgment Day, and luckily that more or less came true. So in the early afternoon we got…

Location: Seebronn / Festivalgelände / Germany Date: 29.07.2017 So. The second day of this year's Rock of Ages festival put nine acts on the stage, and the program was kicked off at half past eleven by German heavy/hard…

Location: Seebronn (Rottenburg a. d. Neckar) / Festivalgelände / GermanyDate: 28.07.2017 Rock Of Ages has a much shorter history than the notorious Bang Your Head!!!, but both fall under the same local promoter, the editorial team…

Location: Balingen / Messegelände / GermanyDate: Thursday, 13.07.2017 The nineteenth Bang Your Head festival is here, and with it a new RockLine expedition to Balingen, Germany. One of Europe's most important summer festivals, known…

"Day three of the legendary Bang Your Head festival 2016, closed out by Iced Earth!"

Location: Seebronn (Rottenburg am Neckar) / Festplatz / Germany Date: Sunday, July 31, 2016 The last day had arrived, day three of the 11th Rock of Ages festival. It was Sunday, and it kicked off in truly miserable fashion. The…

Location: Seebronn (Rottenburg am Neckar) / Festplatz / Germany Date: Saturday, July 30, 2016 Day two of the German festival of rock pioneers and "legends" that is Rock of Ages was billed as the centerpiece of this year's edition. The…

Location: Seebronn (Rottenburg am Neckar) / Festplatz / Germany Date: Friday, July 29, 2016 Up next was the eleventh edition of the Rock of Ages festival, put on by the crew behind the German music magazine “Heavy, Oder Was?”. That same…

Location: Balingen / Messegelände / Germany Date: 15.07.2016 And so the second day of the 21st edition of the legendary Bang Your Head!! festival in Balingen, Germany, rolled around. The night was fresh and the morning properly cold,…

Performing: Stallion, Babylon A.D., Candlemass, Carcass, Dare, The Dead Daisies, Dragonforce, Equilibrium, Ektomorf, Slayer, Leartherwolf, Battle Beast, Debauchery vs. Blood God, Voodoo XLocation: Balingen / Messegelände / Germany Date:…

Performing: Death Angel, Angel Dust, Stormwarrior, Sanctuary, BloodboundDate: Wednesday, 12.07.2017Location: Balingen, Volksbankmesse (Messegelände), Germany As it does every year, this year's Bang Your Head!!! 2017 got its warm-up…

Performers: Anthrax, Ektomorf, Europe, Hirax, Mad Max, More, Obituary, Rob Rock, Stryper, Twisted Sister, UnisonicLocation: Balingen / Messegelände / Germany Date: 12.07.2014 Day two of Bang Your Head!!! 2014 got off to a slightly…

"The Winery Dogs are a band worth sinning for. Especially for a ticket that cost a measly €12.00 in presale and €20.00 on the day of the show. Anyone who missed the chance to catch The Winery Dogs live in Laško is going to have a hard time…

Performing: Grave Digger, Victory, Stormwarrior, Bullet, DynamiteLocation: Balingen / Messegelände / Germany Date: Thursday, 10.07.2014 Another year has rolled around and a new edition of the Bang Your Head!!! festival is right on…

"If I may add a personal note: after years of waiting, seeing Tesla again finally made it happen, even though I'd have loved to hear at least a few more songs than the "modest" thirteen. Tesla, Rockline is already looking forward to your…

Location: Postojna / Glavni trg / SloveniaConcert date: August 24, 2013 This August's Zmaj ma mlade festival in Postojna also served up a gorgeous evening of proper rock. You could say it got more melodic and refined with every act…

"By now night had fallen over the grounds, and Accept used the backdrop to serve up their iron-clad repertoire, which of course included Fast as a Shark, Metal Heart and Balls to the Wall. Experiencing the Accept march in front of a…

Performing: Saxon, Lordi, Pretty Maids, Stratovarius, Masterplan, Entombed, Lake of Tears, H.E.A.T., Die Apokalyptischen Reiter (hall), Onslaught (hall), Artillery, Dream Evil, Fleshcrawl (hall), Exumed (hall), Crazy Lixx, Wanted Inc.…

Location: Tolmin / Sotočje / SloveniaDate: July 23, 2013 On day two, Calling of Lorme! kicked things off on the second stage. The band cultivates a kind of alternative metal spiked with industrial, and their "cyber" pecking made it clear…

"Still, we can safely say that the handful of Slovenes who caught Vicious Rumors at Balingen with Tilen Hudrap in the lineup witnessed a whole new baptism by fire for Slovenian heavy metal"

Location: Ljubljana / Channel Zero / SloveniaDate: 06.10.2012 So what is "24 Hour Party People"? 24 hours of non-stop gigging by 24 bands? 24 hours of uninterrupted musical trance? A 24-hour cross-section of the Slovenian…

Location: Tolmin (the confluence of the Tolminka and Soča) / SloveniaDate: August 6, 2012 We moan every year, and we moan all year long. We (rightfully) complain about a lineup that looks like the roster of Nuclear Blast and/or the…

Location: Tolmin (confluence of the Tolminka and Soča) / Slovenia Date: August 9, 2012 Day four of this year's Metal Camp 2012 has arrived, a festival we'll never cover under the "Metal Camp" banner again! Day four was actually the…

"Though each of the night's headliners came from a completely different school of rock, every one of them managed to carry the crowd off into a trance that only regular gig-goers know and that's impossible to put into plain words. So by the…

"And so the music side of the five-day Otočec came to an end. The festival kept mostly undemanding visitors happy with its music and its side entertainment, but the worrying part is that their numbers stagnate from year to year."

Location: Belgrade / Ušće / SerbiaDate: Friday, 06/29/2012 Friday morning greeted us with a slightly spinning head, but mostly with impatient anticipation of the evening ahead. The afternoon was reserved for sightseeing and sampling…

We kind of missed I Don't Want to Change the World and Mama I'm Coming Home, which Ozzy played everywhere on this tour, and I honestly don't know why they got skipped. So the show flew by a bit too fast, but it was great to see the legend…

Location: Seebronn (Rottenbrg a. d. Neckar) / Festivalgelände / GermanyDate: 29.07.2011 After the heavy rain the day before, it took the morning to reveal just how bad the storm had been. Puddles, lakes and mud everywhere, forcing…

Location: Seebronn (Rottenburg a. d. Neckar) / Festivalgelände / GermanyDate: 07/28/2011 In the state of Baden-Württemberg, a few dozen kilometers south of Stuttgart, the Rock of Ages festival goes down every year. As the name of…

Location: Messegelände / Balingen / GermanyDate: Friday, 15.07.2011 And so day two of BYH!!! 2011 rolled around. Let me just hint that we were freezing in our tents at night, with the temperature hitting a measly 6° C…

Location: Balingen / Messegelände / GermanyDate: Friday, 7/16/2010Performers:10:00 - 10:40 TOXIN 10:50 - 11:30 SAVAGE GRACE 11:40 - 12:30 BULLET 12.40 - 13.30 SACRED STEEL 13.40 - 14:30 HADES 14:45 - 15:35 TREAT 15:50 - 16:40 FATES WARNING…

Location: Balingen / Messegelände / GermanyDate: Thursday, July 15, 2010Performers: 10:00 - 10:40 THE NEW BLACK 10:50 — 11:30 ENFORCER11:40 — 12:30 GRAND MAGUS 12:40 — 13:30 FORBIDDEN 13:40 — 14:30 SABATON 14:40 — 15:30 LOUDNESS 15:45 —…

Location: Ljubljana / Gospodarsko razstavišče / SloveniaDate: Thursday, 05/27/2010 This year's MARS festival, an event watched over by the keen eye of the Dallas record label, got a repeat of last year's premiere. That's how it's…

Location: Rieden-Kreuth / Germany Date: 08/29/2009 The third day of Wacken Rocks South served up a weaker lineup than day two, which was closed out by thrash metal godfathers Slayer. Still, with names like Edguy, Stratovarius,…

Location: Rieden - Kreuth / GermanyDate: 08/27/2009 A whiff of the traditional Wacken Open Air festival, which has been going for 19 years now in the far north of Germany, finally reached us in a slightly scaled-down version, a bit…

" Journey were a chapter all their own on day one, and the next day people were still talking about them in nothing but superlatives!"

"What is there to add after the 10th consecutive Bang Your Head!!! festival in Balingen, Germany? Mission accomplished. The festival ran smoothly, with no delays. Apart from Hardcore Superstar canceling and Rob Halford's worn-out vocals,…

"The first day of the festival had no trouble earning the flattering nickname "Operation: Balingen". It made plenty of people's dreams come true, even though Queensryche already played the whole of "Operation: Mindcrime" live in Balingen…

Location: Veliko Ubeljsko (Postojna) / Sports field / SloveniaDate: July 14, 2007 Hell yeah, another year has rolled around, and it was time to give the sleepy little village in the embrace of Nanos, Veliko Ubeljsko near Postojna, a…

""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…

"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…

Location: Idroscalo (Milan) / ItalyDate: 03.06.2006 A rundown of melodic European power metal, spiced up with the rock'n'roll doctrine of the legends. The bus left at midnight, and with the lovely, uplifting vocal soundtrack of mostly…

"Unforgettable Rock In Izola 2004 with Requiem, Cheap Trick, Status Quo and Deep Purple!"