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Day two kicked off with the less extreme sounds of Belgian speed/heavy metallers Speed Queen, who made the trip to Tolminator all the way from Belgium and — like the true road warriors they are (both their EPs have a road theme: King of…

We sat down with the duo Črt Batagelj and Matej Ahlin, better known as Dirty Skunks, to talk about the premiere of Tolminator, the new metal festival coming to Tolmin. It goes down at the well-known venue in Tolmin (and Sotočje) from July…

Day two of this year's Metal Camp kicked off a run of folk metal acts, which are clearly the darlings of the metal crowd these days, but in the end it all ran under the banner of death metal. Thanks to the excellent Kataklysm and the…

Venue: Cvetličarna MediaPark / Ljubljana / SloveniaConcert date: October 18, 2011Attendance: 600 So, on the eve of the forecast snowfall and traffic meltdown in Ljubljana, the Viking/warrior caravan Heidenfest rolled into…

With its new album, Fintroll lean ever deeper into symphonic territory. They no longer hide their black metal side. Keyboards carry more and more weight in the sound. They're just not that into jokes and the rough-and-tumble stumbling of…

The misfortune that has dogged Finntroll since the very start of their career is almost unbelievable. Only the likes of Nevermore have comparable "luck". The band was founded in 1997 by vocalist Katla (Jan Jänsen) and guita