Koncert

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…

Marillion'Marillion Weekends Convention XXI.' (day two)Saturday, 29 April 2023Padua / Gran Teatro Geox / Italy The second day of the 21st Marillion Weekend Convention at the end of this past April in Padua didn't deviate much from…

King DudeSaturday, 29 April 2023Ljubljana / Menza p. k. / Slovenia Dirty Skunks have clearly passed on their sharp nose for the concert scene — and for the acts they've brought to Slovenian stages over their long years in the game —…

Marillion 'Marillion Weekends Convention XXI.' (Day One)Friday, 28 April 2023Padua / Gran Teatro Geox / Italy Marillion, those prog and art rock luminaries who released their latest studio album "An Hour Before It's Dark" just over…

Chris JaggerSunday, 23 Apr. 2023, from 8 p.m. onwardsIzola / Hangar bar / Slovenia Chris Jagger, the younger brother of the musician known to at least the entire solar galaxy, is his famous sibling's polar opposite. He's a living…

Steve VaiZagreb / Dom sportova (small hall) / CroatiaThursday, 13 April 2023, 8:30 PM Steve Vai is back in Europe. With the album "Inviolate" (2022, RockLine review) and the second leg of the "Inviolate" tour. Last summer we caught…

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…

"Jon Lord – Concerto for Group and Orchestra"Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden) and the Zagreb Philharmonic with the music of Deep PurpleLjubljana / Cankarjev dom / SloveniaSaturday, 25 March 2023 Every once in a while, a special kind of…

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…

Performers: Atreyu, Jinjer, Bullet For My ValentineVenue: Zagreb / Tvornica kulture / CroatiaDate: Saturday, 11 February 2023 Four years ago — April 1st, 2019, believe it or not, when nobody had a clue what the world's lifestyle…

Location: Prague / Forum Karlin / Czech RepublicDate: Saturday, 10 December 2022 Everything was going according to plan. The October one. Right up until Uriah Heep started their 'experimenting' and 'rethinking', cutting short the…

Location: Ljubljana / Arena Stožice / SloveniaDate: Sunday, 4 December 2022 Bryan Adams, the legendary Canadian rock singer-songwriter, finally made it back to Slovenia. After the repeated postponements of the tour on which he was…

Acts: Alter Bridge (plus support: Halestorm & Mammoth WVH)Venue: Zagreb / Dom sportova / CroatiaDate: Saturday, 26 November 2022 Some tours come along where you don't think twice about catching at least one show. A combination…

Acts: Clutch (support: Green Lung, Tigercub)Venue: Zagreb / Tvornica kulture / CroatiaDate: Friday, 25 November 2022 It's more than clear that Clutch have been granted full citizenship in Croatia in recent years. Their new and…

Venue: Padova / Gran Treatro Geox / ItalyDate: Friday, 18. 11. 2022 Steve Hackett is very likely the last of his kind today. With his take on the world of guitar playing and his unexpected inventiveness, the former Genesis guitarist…

Performers: The Shameless, Estriver, Seventh WonderDate: Friday, 4 November 2022Location: Prosecco near Trieste / Kulturni dom Prosek Kontovel (Cassa Delle Culture Prosecco) / Italy Seventh Wonder are today considered a highly…

Acts: Victor Smolski's Almanac / LordiVenue: San Dona Di Piave / Revolver Club / ItalyDate: Saturday, 29 October 2022 Lordi need no lengthy introduction. During the pandemic, they pulled off a remarkable feat — releasing no fewer…

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…

Performers: Evergrey, Fractal Universe, Virtual SymmetryLocation: Ljubljana, Orto bar, SloveniaDate: Sunday, October 9, 2022 Evergrey have finally made it to Ljubljana. These Swedish melodic progressive metallers — with a firmly…

Location: San Dona Di Piave, Revolver Club, ItalyDate: Thursday, 29 September 2022 We spiced up the tail end of this September with a string of back-to-back gigs. The will was there and so was the time. In the town of San Dona Di…

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…

Location: Ljubljana / Orto Bar / SloveniaDate: Wednesday, 28 September 2022 This year's autumn concert season is undeniably packed. Besides plenty of local shows, many American bands are touring Europe. The Elder and Pallbearer concert…

After a strange period when a flood of concert tours suddenly swept across Europe — all announced left and right, only to be followed by one cancellation after another, especially from American bands (the calculated reasons behind that…

Performers: Soen / Lizzard / OceanhoarseDate: Friday, 9 September 2022Location: San Dona Di Piave / Revolver Club / Italy Soen are finally back on tour. One of those tours that came close enough to Slovenia geographically that a…

Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland — the second-largest island in Europe — is the northernmost capital city in the world. It is also the economic, political, and cultural hub of Iceland, a country of only around 370,000 people, nearly half…

Location: Postojna / Parking lot in front of the municipal building / SloveniaDate: Sunday, September 4, 2022 It was just over nine years ago — August 24, 2013, to be precise — that Avtomobili first performed as part of the annual…

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…

Performing: Rumproof, Visions Of Atlantis, AlestormVenue: Barba Negra / Budapest / HungaryDate: Sunday, 3 July 2022 A day of pirate metal in Budapest. Wonder what Running Wild would have to say about that? The sun was still…

Location: Opatija / Ljetna pozornica / CroatiaDate: Friday, 19 August 2022 The question I'm going to open with is a hard one to ask out loud. Is war good for anything? No. Well — almost nothing. Because for Sabaton, the Swedish…

Location: Palmanova / Piazza Grande / ItalyDate: Tuesday, 2 August 2022 Early August 2022, and Ben Harper is coming to Palmanova — just two weeks after dropping his fifteenth studio album, Bloodline Maintenance, with his loyal The…

Venue: Ljubljana / Media Center (Open Air) / SloveniaDate: Tuesday, 9 August 2022 Festival season is in full swing, but there's always room for a standalone show. This one — featuring metal giants Lamb of God, German thrash veterans…

Location: Zagreb / Dom Sportova / Croatia Date: Saturday, 30 July 2022 "Finally!" — that's what plenty of people thought when the French sensation Gojira finally came within striking distance of Slovenia. The band still hasn't…

Location: Graz / Messe Open Air / AustriaDate: Friday, July 29, 2022 Steve Lukather, exceptional musician and composer, that wonderful man of undecayed heart who has at least as many lives as the legendary art-rock sensation Toto —…

Venue: Udine / Castello di Udine (Piazzale del Castello) / ItalyDate: Tuesday, 26 July 2022 English guitar virtuoso and innovator Steve Hackett rolled through Italian Udine with his band on his current tour — the closest concert…

Performers: Overlaps, The Amazons, The DarknessVenue: Pordenone / Parco San Valentino / ItalyDate: Saturday, 23 July 2022 The final day of this year's Pordenone Blues Festival brought the 'rough-and-ready' British rock rascals and…

Venue: Pordenone / Parco San Valentino / ItalyConcert date: Wednesday, 20 July 2022 Unbelievable, but true. Jeff Beck, the ace of aces — the man many generously crown as the rock guitarist's rock guitarist — sharing a stage with…

Venue: Zagreb / Arena / CroatiaConcert date: Saturday, July 9, 2022 Kiss are a phenomenon unlike anything else in the rock 'n' roll universe. In fact, it's fair to say they occupy a completely unique spot on the vast rock map of the…

Venue: Zagreb / ŠRC Šalata / CroatiaConcert date: Thursday, 30 June 2022 Simple Minds! The greatest Scottish band of all time. Out on a hits tour. Celebrating 40 years in the game. A band born in the second half of the seventies,…

Location: Udine / Castello Di Udine / ItalyDate: Friday, July 1, 2022 Steve Vai! What else is there left to say about this guitar deity? Steve Vai is one of those phenomena of a truly brilliant musician. He's an absolute…

Performers: Steel Panther / Florence Black (support act)Concert date: Saturday, 2 July 2022Venue: Tvornica Kulture / Zagreb / Croatia Steel Panther hardly need a detailed introduction anymore. They're a band that cleverly carved out…

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…

Performers: Heathen / ToxikVenue: Ljubljana / Orto Bar / SloveniaDate: 5 June 2022 Summer is usually a dead zone for concerts — or at least the action shifts to outdoor stages and festival grounds. This year, for reasons everyone knows,…

Performing: My Chemical Romance, Barns CourtneyVenue: Budapest / Budapest Park / HungaryDate: Tuesday, 7 June 2022 My Chemical Romance, the defining band of the emo era for so many people in the early 2000s, reclaimed Budapest Park…

Performing: Dan DVenue: Cerknica / Parkirišče Trikotnik / SloveniaDate: Friday, 10 June 2022 Dan D on a Friday in Cerknica! Even there, paths cross eventually — and a visit to Cerknica doesn't have to mean a Lordi concert, even…

Performers: Devin Townsend, Dream TheaterVenue: Zagreb / Mala dvorana Doma sportova / CroatiaDate: Friday, 27 May 2022 The concert pulse finally surged back to life through this May. Bands are rushing. Everyone's on the road. Across…

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…

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…

Performing: One Morning Left, Blind Channel, Electric CallboyConcert date: Sunday, 1 May 2022Venue: Graz / Orpheum Teater / Austria In a sold-out Orpheum Teater in Graz, on what happened to be a public holiday, Electric Callboy…

Location: San Francisco / Chase Center / United States of AmericaDate: Friday, December 17, 2021 and Sunday, December 19, 2021 The year was 1981. Hard rock fans were being treated to albums like AC/DC - For Those About to…

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…

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…

Location: Cerkno / Star plac / SloveniaDate: Friday, July 17, 2020 Yet another seriously fresh evening that we had the privilege of spending in Cerkno brought us there on the wings of an exciting concert announcement — another…

Location: Cerkno / Star plac / SloveniaDate: Saturday, 11 July 2020 After a blunt dose of that brave new world reality — the one we sink deeper into day by day, with no salvation in sight until the final catharsis (that is, 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.

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…

"Despite the fact that the trio must stay locked in at all times, Gorilla Mask keep teasing the listener with the shock element of 'expect the unexpected.' The band deftly rolls between calm, almost subtle passages, then suddenly erupts…

"If John Zorn were looking for raw sonic ethno-eclecticism, with experimentation brilliantly grafted onto its native purism of relentless bold provocation, he'd call on Širom."

"Everyone in the venue had a blast in that spectacular power metal carousel that evening. The energy was excellent once again, and it's truly remarkable how HammerFall, despite the declining interest in power metal, keep drawing the crowds…

Despite a far-from-cheerful setlist, Leprous managed to conjure up a genuinely special atmosphere at Graz's Explosiv club, keeping the crowd on their feet right to the end. And credit where it's due — support acts Klone and Maraton were…

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.

"Damir Avdić – when the devil takes the joke, or: a concert 'murder' of capitalism in Cerkno!"

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…

Performers: Septic Order, Constrictor, Challenger Location: Ljubljana / Orto bar / SloveniaDate: Thursday, 16 January 2020 2019 is already history and 2020 is already in full swing. Sadly, the first week of the new year wrapped up…

To say that the musicians on stage delivered anything less than a competent performance would be an insult to Apocalyptica; to say that the atmosphere at Monday's concert was great would be an insult to the audience.

"The 25th international festival of (good music) known as Keltika invited the Scandinavian — more precisely Norwegian — jazz outfit Cortex to Cerkno as its opening concert of the year."

"The band played. Played with a capital P. A full two and a half hours. No breaks. No pauses. They threw the crowd headlong into the legendary 'Orlek theater.'"

Location: Wien Arena / Vienna / AustriaDate: November 21, 2019 The Never Say Die tour remains to this day one of those landmark tours that has featured a sea of bands swimming in the waters of metalcore, deathcore, hardcore,…

Archspire, Beneath The Massacre, Vulvodynia, and Inferi made sure the year went out with one final concert packed with brutality, technicality, punch, and melody.

"U.D.O. remain, with their performance power, legacy, and energy, the defining front-line entity of the classic heavy metal era — the era shaped long ago by the one and only, the mighty voice of metal himself, Mr. Udo Dirkschneider."

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…

"Deep Purple ride on, then. Into infinity, into eternity! The iconic group crossed into myth and legend long ago. Given the form on display, the farewell is going to last a good while yet. And that's a good thing!"

Location: Roncade (Treviso) / New Age Club / ItalyDate: Tuesday, 26 November 2019 Sepultura! We all get there in the end. Every single one of us. Even those of you who don't know them. Even to the band that brothers Max and Igor…

Concert venue: Graz / Stadthalle / AustriaConcert date: Saturday, 12 October 2019 David Hasselhoff aka The Hoff, the legendary actor who shot to fame with Knight Rider and Baywatch, decided in 2019 to step back onto the stage as a…

"The Frictions, led by the iconic Chris Eckman, and Martin Ramoveš with his backing band. An evening well worth spending heart and soul in Cerkno — a place we always find ourselves coming back to, time and again."

The Rotting Christ and Moonspell concert package, warmed up by a razor-sharp Silver Dust, proved that evening to be a sinfully worthwhile visit to Graz's Dom Im Berg.

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?…

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: Cormons / Teatro Comunale di Cormons / ItalyDate: Thursday, 24.10.2019 A live appearance by the legendary guitar wizard John McLaughlin near our western border was something no jazz fusion devotee could afford to miss —…

"A concert of exceptional qualities, as one might quietly have expected. A concert that leaves you with powerful, intense feelings — and one that, even after it ends, holds you in a state of rapt absorption, caught in the creation of a…

"In other words, you got a sense of what Jethro Tull would sound like without the flute — or even what some of the originals from the late sixties and early seventies sounded like without it."

Location: Ljubljana / Orto Bar / SloveniaDate: Thursday, 10.10.2019 Crashdiet coming to Slovenia has always seemed like a complete pipe dream. Seriously. For once in my life I didn't have to drive abroad for a change — even if that…

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.

Venue: Ljubljana / Orto bar / SloveniaDate: Monday, 07.10.2019 Paul Gilbert is back at Orto bar. Over ten years ago he played the smaller (upper) stage of this beloved club — about 100 people packed in. Back then, the Mr. Big reunion…

Revolver Club hosted a true death metal feast with a show featuring Nile, Hate Eternal, Vitriol, and Omophagia. The solid turnout made one thing clear: death metal, in any shape or form, is still very much worth your time.

Location: Ljubljana / Kino Šiška / SloveniaDate: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 Summer is over, and so are the festivals. Time to head back to the clubs. September is packed with shows, and Kino Šiška especially so — the venue is hitting its 10-year…

"The revelry, the positive vibes, and energy thick enough to cut with a knife — the essential ingredients of any Vlado set — were all present and accounted for, making this another show soaked in intense feeling and emotion."

"Alongside original compositions that Frank Zappa himself would surely have listened to on endless repeat, the real highlights were the rock classics that Chadbourne and Schröder turned completely on their heads."

"With this concert, Same Babe confirmed every quality of their rapacious stage acuity, punch, and intellectual rebel pose — all commanded by exceptional, singular, brilliant artistry of clear expressive character, repeatedly jabbing…

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…

"The band never hid their great mood and sunny spirits, which kept the show alive in the middle of a storm and warmed soaked hearts!"

"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

Location: Majano (Udine) / Area Concerti Festival / ItalyDate: Sunday, 21.07.2019 It almost never happens, or at best extremely rarely, that The Darkness come this close to the Slovenian border. Well, OK. Last year the stars…

PFM's stellar show, packed with evergreens from the golden era of Italian progressive rock, flew by way too fast in the gorgeous atmosphere of Carpacciov trg. We could be more than happy with what we heard and saw over a good two hours.…

Location: Kobarid / Trg svobode / SloveniaDate: Saturday, 20.07.2019 Summer is hot. Finally. Ahh, too hot. After July's concert onslaught, when we got drenched at gigs in Zagreb for Whitesnake, then at Križanke (Marcus Miller,…

Location: Ljubljana / Plečnik Pub / SloveniaDate: Thursday, 18.07.2019 Help! are a Slovenian, or more precisely American-Slovenian, team-up of a musical ensemble and a quartet, devoted to playing the legacy of the great Liverpool…

"At 68, Stanley Clarke and his crew proved once again in Ljubljana that he's one of a kind, an unrepeatable, elusive original in his craft, and that his shows are a magnificent, spectacular musical experience."