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Label: Blaze Bayley RecordingsRelease date: Feb 23, 2024Production: Blaze Bayley & Chris AppletonAlbum length: 44:08 minGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 8.5/10 Blaze Bayley is an unstoppable warrior. The man who held Iron Maiden…

Release date: September 1, 2023Label: Atomic Fire RecordsProduction: Mat Sinner (co-producers: Ralf Scheepers & Tom Naumann)Album length: 57.51 minGenre: Power MetalRating: 8.5/10 "Code Red" is, believe it or not, the 14th…

Vitalij Kuprij, the respected Ukrainian-American keyboardist, producer and music teacher, passed away on Tuesday, February 20, 2024, at the age of 49. The sad news was shared by Kuprij's musical colleague Lars Eric Mattsson, the Finnish…

Release date: August 25, 2023Label: AFM RecordsProduction: Martin 'Mattes' PfeifferAlbum length: 53.58 minGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 8.5/10 U.D.O., the long-lived champions of heavy metal led by the indestructible Udo Dirkschneider,…

Performers: Spike of Quireboys / Jelusick / The Dead DaisiesDate: Thursday, 7 December 2023Venue: Ljubljana / Cvetličarna / Slovenia There are those concerts. The ones that make it to Slovenia. Concerts whose musical DNA also feeds…

Performers: Keops / Elvenking / AlestormDate: Wednesday, 15 November 2023Location: Zagreb / Boogaloo / Croatia Alestorm are quite the phenomenon! When the author of this piece first caught them on stage during the morning hours at…

Self-releasedRelease date: 26. 10. 2022Production: Tilen SapačAlbum length: 34.33 minRating: 9.0/10Genre: Heavy Metal Einschlog are a Slovenian heavy metal outfit based in Radenci. So, on "this (right) side" of the Mura river –…

Label: Nika RecordsRelease date: 4/28/2023Production: MetalsteelAlbum length: 36 min.Genre: Heavy MetalRating: 8.5/10 English version: Slovenian classic metal champions Metalsteel have decided to pay tribute to some of most…

Label / Založba: Napalm RecordsRelease date / Datum izida: 29. 9. 2023Production / Produkcija: K. K. Downing Mix & Mastering: Jacob HansenGenre / Zvrst: Heavy Metal9/10 for Slovene version scroll down the bar! The father of…

Blue Öyster CultLjubljana / Media Center / SloveniaMonday, 28 August 2023 Not that long ago, anyone who dared suggest that legendary American hard rockers Blue Öyster Cult would be playing Ljubljana — one of only three dates on the…

Riot V (support: Diamond Dust)Zagreb / Hard Place / CroatiaThursday, 10 August 2023 Riot V's show in the middle of this August at a club gig in Zagreb's Hard Place definitely belonged in the category of exclusive concerts. A treat…

Label: Atomic Fire RecordsRelease date: June 23, 2023Production: Jag PanzerAlbum length: 53.03 minGenre: Heavy Metal / Power MetalRating: 9.0/10 The cult American power metal heroes Jag Panzer are back among us with a new album,…

Iron Maiden (support: The Raven Age)Wednesday, 31 May 2023Prague / O2 Arena / Czech Republic The third concert of The Future Past tour — or rather the European leg of the new world tour by the one and only Iron Maiden. It was…

Iron Maiden (support: The Raven Age)Tuesday, 30 May 2023Prague / O2 Arena / Czech Republic Iron Maiden on a new tour! Catching at least one show is practically a moral obligation. One of the most important bands in the history of…

Iron MaidenLjubljana / Arena Stožice / SloveniaSunday, 28 May 2023, 8:00 PM Many fans of the English heavy metal institution Iron Maiden have long wondered why this legendary band, whose best songs were written in the eighties, has…

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…

Label: Silver Lining MusicRelease date: March 24, 2023Production: Biff, Seb Byford & Jacky LehmannCompilation length:Genre: Heavy Metal / N.W.O.B.H.M. Rating: 9.0/10 Saxon! Is there anything left to say about this band that…

Label: Century MediaRelease date: February 24, 2023Production: InsomniumAlbum length: 50.26 minGenre: Melodic Death MetalRating: 9/10 Finnish melo-death melancholics Insomnium hardly need an introduction. The band has been around…

Former Running Wild guitarist Majk Moti (August 29, 1957 - February 16, 2023) has passed away at the age of 66. Running Wild announced the news of his death on February 18, 2023, on their official FaceBook profile (you can check it out…

Label: One RecordsRelease date: 30. 12. 2022Executive producer: Žanil Tataj - ŽakMixing and mastering: Piknik studio Novi SadAlbum length: 51.06 minGenre: Hard Rock / Heavy Metal / Melodic MetalRating: 9.0/10 Žanil Tataj - Žak is a…

Label: AFM RecordsRelease date: 11/18/2022Compilation length: 150.30 minGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 9.0/10 U.D.O. are celebrating 35 years in the game with the lavish double-CD compilation “The Legacy”. On the road between “Animal…

Label: Mascot Label GroupRelease date: 28. 10. 2022Production: Peter TägtgrenAlbum length: 50.10 minGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 8.5/10 Joe Lynn Turner is definitely considered one of the vocal legends of the rock 'n' roll world today.…

Label: AFM RecordsRelease date: October 21, 2022Production: Herman Frank & Arne NeurandAlbum length: 51.53 minGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 8.5/10 Iron Allies, a new heavy metal project fronted by two former Accept members,…

Label: Massacre RecordsRelease date: 14. 10. 2022Production: Jaded HeartAlbum length: 49.32 minGenre: Hard RockRating: 8.5/10 Jaded Heart are an interesting band with two pretty different eras. In the first, they were riding the…

Label: Epic RecordsRelease date: 9. 9. 2022Production: Andrew WattAlbum length: 61.17 minGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 8.5/10 Ozzy Osbourne is having a renaissance. We read about the famous musician's ailments pretty much every day,…

Label: Century Media RecordsRelease date: October 7, 2022Production: Chris “Zeuss” HarrisAlbum length: 60:28 minGenre: Heavy Metal / Progressive MetalRating: 9.0/10 Believe it or not, Queensryche are back with a new album. “Digital…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: 10/21/2022Production: Michael SweetAlbum length: 46.30 minGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 8.0/10 Stryper are legends of 'white metal', the standard-bearers of so-called Christian metal, if you…

On October 31, 2022, Marko Herak passed away. He was an original founding member and the bassist of Slovenian heavy metal icons Pomaranča. Marko Herak joined the band in 1979 at the invitation of guitarist Mijo Popović. Popović, who…

Label: No Remorse RecordsRelease date: October 14, 2022Production: Antony BlaineAlbum length: 45:25 minGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 9.0/10 Another blast out of Alberta, Canada! Riot City are yet another bunch of storm troopers of…

Label: AFM RecordsRelease date: 8/26/2022Production: Piet SielckCompilation length: 123.26 minGenre: Power MetalRating: 9/10 Iron Savior hardly need an introduction for the true-blue power metal fan. They're led by the great…

Location: Postojna / Kulturni dom Postojna / SloveniaDate: Friday, September 30, 2022 That day finally came. Ever since the rock and metal world in Slovenia got its hands on the reissue of the cult debut album "Rocks Off" by the…

David Andersson, guitarist for Swedish melodic death metallers Soilwork and AOR revivalists The Night Flight Orchestra, who had recently joined the Australian death metal outfit Gang Of Old Ladies (he managed to record and release their…

Franc Teropšič, original drummer of Pomaranča, the central Slovenian heavy metal band of the eighties, has passed away. At the turn of the seventies into the eighties, in 1979 to be exact, guitarist Mijo Popović and vocalist Zlatko…

Location: Postojna / Car park behind the Municipal Building / SloveniaDate: Friday, 2 September 2022 In early September this year, right alongside the grand finale of Postojna's annual festival Zmaj 'ma mlade, Croatian parodic sonic…

Label: ROAR! Rock Of Angels RecordsRelease date: August 26, 2022Production: Chris Boltendahl & Axel "Ironfinger" RittAlbum length: 49.43 minGenre: Heavy Metal / Power MetalRating: 8.5/10 The comfort zone can be okay. Especially…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: August 12, 2022Production: Erik MartenssonAlbum length: 39.30 minGenre: Heavy Metal/Hard RockRating: 8.5/10 Nordic Union is a melodic metal project teaming up Erik Martensson (Eclipse) and…

Label: Atomic Fire RecordsRelease date: July 15, 2022Production: Mat SinnerAlbum length: 53.22 minGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 8.5/10 Today, Sinner count as one of the longest-running German heavy rock and heavy metal outfits around.…

Steve Grimmett, singer of the cult N.W.O.B.H.M. band Grim Reaper, has died at the age of 63. The news was first confirmed on social media by his brother Mark, who wrote yesterday, 8/15/2022: "I really don't know where to start, so…

Nicky Moore, the cult vocalist who stepped in for defector Bruce Dickinson in N.W.O.B.H.M. outfit Samson in 1981 - the latter, as myth and legend have it, went on to join Iron Maiden - has passed away at the age of 75. Nicky Moore, who…

Yeah, it's been two "fucking" years since it was announced that metal deity Judas Priest would return to Ljubljana for the first time since 1991. Then, for reasons we all know, one cancellation hit, then another — and it wasn't hard to…

Label: Atomic Fire RecordsRelease date: May 27, 2022Production: Michael Voss & Michael SchenkerAlbum length: 52:25 minGenre: Hard RockRating: 9.0/10 Michael Schenker needs no special introduction. In a single sentence: he's a…

Just over ten days ago, Ljubljana was hot not only because of the summer weather, but also because, under the wing of Dirty Skunks, the hellish duo of Night Demon and Midnight came thundering into town. Despite their genre differences, the…

where: Zagreb / Arena / Croatiawhen: Sunday, 22 May 2022 Finally. After two postponements of the final leg of the "Legacy Of The Beast" tour, and with the intervening release of the new studio album "Senjutsu" (2021, RockLine…

Label: Drakkar EntertainmentRelease date: 19. 11. 2021Production: Carl SentanceAlbum length: 40.25 minGenre: Hard Rock/Heavy MetalRating: 8.5/10 Carl Sentance has put out a really nice solo studio album, »Electric Eye«. His second…

Venue: Ljubljana / Orto bar / SloveniaDate: Saturday, April 30, 2022 Pero Defformero, the ever-irresistible parodic crew of four pranksters from Novi Sad, made their way back to Slovenia at the end of this April. After playing to a…

Label: Atomic Fire RecordsRelease date: April 22, 2022Production: Stefan KaufmannCompilation length: 65.20 minGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 9.0/10 Udo Dirkschneider has spent the last few years with his band Dirkschneider (U.D.O. in…

Label: Napalm RecordsRelease date: April 1, 2022Production: Evil InvadersAlbum length: 42:59 minGenre: Thrash Metal/Speed Metal Revival Rating: 9.0/10 Evil Invaders are Belgian thrash and speed metal revivalists who dropped their…

Label: SPV / Steamhammer RecordsRelease date: April 15, 2022Production: Axel Rudi PellAlbum length: 54.42 minGenre: Hard RockRating: 8.5 / 10 Axel Rudi Pell, the timeless German guitar hero, is back with yet another studio album,…

Label: Metal Blade RecordsRelease date: April 1, 2022Production: SatanAlbum length: 47.36 minGenre: Heavy Metal / N.W.O.B.H.M.Rating: 9.0/10 And here's yet another Satan album. The band, which has been enjoying a renaissance in…

Label: Heavy Metal RecordsRelease date: March 11, 2022Production: Cloven HoofAlbum length: 41.29 minGenre: Heavy Metal / N.W.O.B.H.M.Rating: 9.0/10 Cloven Hoof are metal legends today. The band comes from the N.W.O.B.H.M. days, and…

Label: Vertigo/Universal Music GmbHRelease date: Feb. 25, 2022Production: Scorpions & Hans-Martin BuffAlbum length: 44.29 minGenre: Hard Rock / Heavy MetalRating: 8.0/10 It's 2022, exactly 50 years since the debut “Lonesome…

Label: AFM Records Reissue date: 19. 11. 2021 Production: Piet Sielck Album length: 63.37 min Genre: Power Metal Rating: 9.0/10 Iron Savior, the Hamburg veterans of heavy metal and power metal, put out a reissue of their album »The…

Label: Silver Lining Music Release date: February 4, 2022 Production: Andy Sneap & Biff Byford Album length: 44.19 min Genre: Heavy Metal / N. W. O. B. H. M. Rating: 9.0/10 Saxon! A band that has survived everything. Literally every…

Label: Dark Star Records Release date: January 24, 2022 Production: Tony Martin Album length: 49.11 min Genre: Heavy Metal Rating: 9.0/10 Anthony Philip Harford, known to everyone as Tony Martin, needs no special introduction. Well, at…

Label: AFM Records Release date: October 22, 2021 Production: Martin “Mattes” Pfeiffer Album length: 68.57 min Genre: Heavy Metal Rating: 9.0/10 You just can't believe it. Here's the seventeenth studio album from the German Teutonic…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl. Release date: January 28, 2022 Production: Praying Mantis Album length: 58.06 min Genre: Heavy Metal / AOR Rating: 8.5/10 Praying Mantis, the grand veterans of British melodic hard and heavy rock who rose out of…

Meat Loaf, one of the most beloved and commercially successful hard rock and heavy metal singers, who was also a film actor among other things, has died at the age of 74. The news was announced by his agent, who wrote the following in an…

Burke Shelley, founder, frontman, singer and bassist of the cult Welsh rockers Budgie, has died at the age of 71. The sad news was confirmed by Shelley's daughter Ela Shelley, who posted the following yesterday on the band's official…

Label: ZKP RTV SlovenijaRelease date: November 26, 2021Production: Toni Jurij (2021 remaster: Jadran Ogrin)Reissue length: 54.04 minGenre: Heavy Metal / Glam MetalRating: 9.5/10Buy:“Rocks Off” – order (CD)“Rocks Off”…

A few days ago, the Slovenian rock and metal community lost Sašo Banovič, one of the key figures of the Postojna area, who through his commitment, enthusiasm, fire and constant involvement in rock activism left an indelible mark not only…

Label: AFM RecordsRelease date: 11/26/2021Production: Herman Frank & Arne NeurandAlbum length: 50.19 minGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 8.5/10 The new Victory album is finally here. It's their tenth overall and their first in ten…

Label: Reaper EnterainmentRelease date: June 25, 2021Production: Grega Smola CrnkovičAlbum length: 56.58 minGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 9.5/10 SkyEye are a one-of-a-kind phenomenon. These Ljubljana heavy metal revivalists blazed onto…

Location: Ljubljana / Orto bar / SloveniaDate: Friday, 5 November 2021 And so came that magical day — the second of this year for your humble correspondent — when some miracle had him heading out to an actual metal show. As it…

If there's a silver lining to be found anywhere in the last two shitty years, it's at least this: bands haven't let their creative energy die out despite the complete live music blackout, and new album releases have been coming thick and…

Label: Explorer1 Music GroupRelease date: October 1, 2021Production: KK's PriestAlbum length: 50.35 minRating: 9.0/10Genre: Heavy Metal KK's Priest is a brand-new heavy metal project, fired up last February by former Judas Priest…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: July 16, 2021Production: Big CityAlbum length: 52.06 minRating: 9.0/10Genre: Melodic Metal Big City are a Norwegian melodic metal outfit drawing inspiration from the ultra-musical side of…

Label: SPV/Steamhammer RecordsRelease date: 9/17/2021Production: RageAlbum length: 50.02 minGenre: Power MetalRating: 9.5/10 Resurrection day. The day we've been feverishly waiting for. The day when everything comes together and…

Label: earMUSICRelease date: September 10, 2021Genre: Heavy Metal / Power MetalRating: 9.0/10 Gamma Ray is the band German guitarist Kai Hansen founded in 1989 after leaving Helloween. A "shocking" revelation that anyone can read on…

Self-releasedRelease date: 9/15/2021Production: Beny KicGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 9.5/10 Metalsteel and a new album. Their seventh! "Fosaken By The Gods." 22 years of activity. Impressive. Especially for a Slovenian heavy metal…

Label: Parlophone Records / BMGRelease date: September 3, 2021Production: Kevin ShirleyAlbum length: 81.58 min (2CD)Genre: Heavy Metal / N.W.O.B.H.M.Rating: 7.0/10 Fans of Britain's biggest metal institution, Iron Maiden, had to…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: October 9, 2020Production: Buck Dharma, Eric Bloom & Richie CastellanoAlbum length: 61:15 minGenre: Heavy Metal / Hard Rock / Art RockRating: 8.0/10 "The Symbol Remains" is the fifteenth…

Label: Nuclear Blast RecordsRelease date: 28. 5. 2021Production: SchmierAlbum length: 61.09 minGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 9.0/10 Burning Witches are an all-female Swiss heavy metal outfit, and they're already putting out their fourth…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: 11. 6. 2021Production: Alessandro Del VecchioAlbum length: 48.33 minGenre: Melodic MetalRating: 7.0/10 Brother Against Brother is a new project from the Italian label Frontiers Music Srl.,…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: June 18, 2021Production: Alessandro Del VecchioAlbum length: 48.43 minGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 7.5/10 Chalice of Sin are a new American heavy metal outfit that partly follows in the…

Label: AOR Heaven RecordsRelease date: May 28, 2021Production: Thomas "Plec" JohanssonAlbum length: 44:49 minGenre: Heavy Metal/Melodic MetalRating: 8.5/10 Proud are a Swedish band with an interesting backstory. The story starts…

Label: AOR Heaven RecordsRelease date: May 28, 2021Production: TripleVisionAlbum length: 47.45 minGenre: AOR/Heavy MetalRating: 10/10 Tuple. Well, it reads French, but it's Finnish. Tommi "Tuple" Salmela is a Finnish music legend…

Label: Mighty MusicRelease date: May 28, 2021Production: Chris Tsangarides, Soren Andersen, Harry Hess, Ben MatthewsAlbum length: 67.54 minGenre: heavy metal/N.W.O.B.H.M.Rating: 9.0/10 Tygers Of Pan Tang rank today among the…

The Slovenian heavy metal band SkyEye was founded seven years ago by guitarist Grega Stalowsky, bassist Primož Lovšin and singer Jan Leščanec. Later (in 2016), guitarist Marko Kavčnik and drummer Jurij Nograšek joined the lineup. In…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: 5/14/2021Production: Michael Sweet & Tracii GunsAlbum length: 48:23 minGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 9.0/10 Sunbomb is a music project where L.A. Guns guitarist Tracii Guns and Stryper…

Label: AFM RecordsRelease date: May 21, 2021Production: Herman FrankAlbum length: 42.55 minGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 8.5/10 Herman Frank is a German guitarist who's now a big relic of 80s Teutonic metal. The guy who put his name on…

Label: Metalville RecordsRelease date: April 9, 2021Production: Johan KihlbergAlbum length: 39.03 minGenre: Power Metal/Heavy MetalRating: 9.0/10 Johan Kihlberg's Impera is back, this time with an alchemical new album. The project…

Need some advice on raising kids who dream of playing in a metal band? Head to Medvode, where the parents of four now-grown young men and one young woman will blow all your doubts away in a heartbeat. Twenty years ago, those kids founded…

Label: AFM RecordsRelease date: March 26, 2021Album length: 148.15 minGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 9.5/10 The legendary Udo Dirkschneider, the man who co-founded Accept, the first band in the history of German heavy metal, and whose…

Label: Blaze Bayley RecordingsRelease date: April 9, 2021Production: Blaze Bayley & Chris AppletonAlbum length: 42.01 minGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 8.5/10 Blaze Bayley – a name that needs no thunderous fanfare of bells to…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: April 9, 2021Production: Aldo LonobileAlbum length: 42.45 minGenre: Progressive Metal / Heavy MetalRating: 8.5/10 Sweet Oblivion is a musical project backed by the big guns at Frontiers Music…

Label: Nuclear Blast RecordsRelease date: April 9, 2021Production: Mat SinnerEP length: 20.30 minGenre: Power Metal / Heavy MetalRating: 8.0/10 Greetings, Primal Fear fans. Thanks to their staying power and sheer stubbornness, the…

Label: Silver Lining Music/Militia GuardRelease date: 19. 3. 2021Production: Biff ByfordGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 8.0/10 Saxon. Unbelievable. The older they get, the more stubborn and defiant they become. It's genuinely odd that…

Label: Freya RecordsRelease date: 5 March 2021Production: Tom TeeAlbum length: 54:04 minGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 8.5/10 The name Thorium calls for a quick intro. No, this time we're not talking about the chemical element, but about…

Label: Rat Pak RecordsRelease date: February 5, 2021Production: Tod La Torre & Craig BlackwellAlbum length: 44.35 minGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 9.0/10 Todd La Torre is an American musician who made his name over the last decade…

In 1981, Iron Maiden were slowly closing in on the massive change that the world would witness at the end of March 1982. But even the stretch right before that career turning point wasn't without some radical upheavals, and they followed…

Label: Nuclear Blast RecordsRelease date: January 29, 2021Production: Andy SneapAlbum length: 52.16 minGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 8.0/10 The year is 2021, Accept, and? A new album. Accept, founded in 1968 by Udo Dirkschneider and…

Label: Silver Lining MusicRelease date: 11/20/2020Production: Brian Tatler & Rasmus Bom AndersenAlbum length: 60.53 minGenre: Heavy Metal / N.W.O.B.H.M.Rating: 9.0/10 “Lightning To the Nations” is considered a cult heavy metal…

Label: Massacre RecordsRelease date: 27. 11. 2020Production: Jaded HeartAlbum length; 52.14 minGenre: Hard Rock/Heavy MetalRating: 8.0/10 These days Jaded Heart are a kind of cult, overlooked hard rock royalty, doomed to rule the…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl. Release date: December 4, 2020Album length: 62:04 minGenre: Heavy Metal / Heavy RockRating: 9.0/10 And here's yet another live album from our well-known, wicked heavy rock'n'roll uncles Blue Öyster Cult!…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl. Release date: December 4, 2020 (reissue)Producers: Steve Schenck & Richie CastellanoRunning time: 78.08 min (LP/CD) / approx. 120 min (DVD/Blu-ray)Genre: Heavy Metal/Heavy RockRating: 9.0/10 …

Label: AFM RecordsRelease date: December 4, 2020Production: Piet SielckAlbum length: 56:28 minGenre: Power Metal/Heavy MetalRating: 10/10 There's hardly anything new left to say about Iron Savior – the power metal legends from…

For Saxon, 1980 was the most important year of the band's career. That February, they dropped the album »Wheels of Steel« and took the torch from a freshly born phalanx of bands serving up, for the time, a combination of insanely fast and…

Label: Parlophone RecordsRelease date: November 21, 2020Production: Tony NewtonAlbum length: 100.46 minGenre: heavy metalRating: 8.5/10 Well, here it is. The new live Iron Maiden album. Apparently, and if the author of these lines'…

Label: Metal Blade RecordsRelease date: 10/23/2020Production: Joey VeraAlbum length: 53:35 minGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 9.0/10 Armored Saint are legendary American heavy metallers. Nobody kicks you between the eyes harder than this,…

Iron Maiden released the live album »Live After Death« 35 years ago. It was mid-October of that long-gone year. The story behind it is a feat on the level of the biblical exploits of gray-bearded Moses. A story about Eddie the mummy…