Ljubljana

GongSunday, December 1, 2024Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / Slovenia Legendary psychedelic prog rockers Gong paid their first-ever visit to the Slovenian capital — a city that prog rock bands drop by about as often as it rains in the…

Cradle Of Filth (support acts: Butcher Babies, Mental Cruelty, Black Satellite)Tuesday, 19 November 2024, 18:45 – 23:45Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / Slovenia Cradle of Filth, one of the best-known bands on the planet when the talk…

Brit Floyd - The Pink Floyd Tribute ShowTuesday, 5 Nov. 2024, 7:30 PM – 10:30 PMLjubljana / Mala dvorana Hale Tivoli / Slovenia Brit Floyd are the greatest tribute act on the planet to the mighty Pink Floyd! So good, in fact, that…

Kamelot (support acts: Frozen Crown, Blackbriar, Ad Infinitum)Saturday, October 19, 2024Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / Slovenia Kamelot are a long-running American symphonic power metal band with a very well-established name on the…

Event: Pelhan Headline Show, Support: HarpierDate: 19.9.2024Venue: Orto Bar, Ljubljana, Slovenia On Thursday, in the intimate atmosphere of Orto Bar, Harpier opened the night as support and Primorska hard rockers Pelhan…

Performing: Pomaranča (support act: Metalsteel)Date: Thursday, 6 June 2024Venue: Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / Slovenia Pomaranča is a name everyone knows! One way or another. We all live with oranges — in the eating sense and…

StingWednesday, 29 May 2024Ljubljana / Arena Stožice / Slovenia Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner — the legendary English singer, bassist, activist and actor who most of the world knows far better by his stage name Sting (and reportedly…

Venue: Ljubljana / Arena Stožice / SloveniaDate: 19 May 2024, 8:15 PM – 10:05 PM After all these long years, the Slovenian concert scene has finally had the pleasure of welcoming the great Rod Stewart — British pop-rock legend, one…

Acts: Mr. Big / Jared James Nichols (support act)Date: Thursday, 4 April 2024Venue: Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / Slovenia Mr. Big, a band that fused two seemingly incompatible musical trends of the eighties — melodic hard rock with…

Zaria / Elvenking / AlestormTuesday, 14 November 2023Ljubljana / Cvetličarna / Slovenia Alestorm, the Scottish pirate metal band that isn't actually all that Scottish (two members hail from nearby Ireland, while the lead guitarist…

Acts: Liv Sin / Priest / DeathstarsDate: Monday, November 27, 2023Location: Ljubljana / Orto bar / Slovenia Catching Swedish outfit Deathstars at Ljubljana's Orto bar just before the end of November was something of an exclusive…

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: SiddhartaDate: Saturday, November 18, 2023Location: Ljubljana / Arena Stožice / Slovenia Siddharta! In a sold-out Arena Stožice, with a three-and-a-half-hour show delivered at a level that can stand toe to toe with the…

Performers: ChateauDate: 17 Nov 2023Venue: Ljubljana / Orto bar / Slovenia It doesn't happen every day that Chateau release a new studio album. And more than that — after 2011, when the band put out the album "Do konca" and then,…

Performers: Death Angel / Sacred Reich / Angelus ApatridaVenue: Ljubljana / Cvetličarna / SloveniaDate: Tuesday, November 7, 2023 At last, Slovenia has had another proper thrash metal day — following the June Testament and Voivod…

Artists: Ryujin (ex-Gyze) / Eleine / Ensiferum / PAINDate: Tuesday, October 24, 2023Location: Ljubljana / Cvetličarna / Slovenia PAIN in Slovenia! Yeah! What started as an innocent hobby for the legendary producer and mastermind…

Performers: Omega Sun / The Winery DogsLocation: Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / SloveniaDate: Sunday, October 29, 2023 The Winery Dogs back in Slovenia! The second visit of these three musical super-Conans — after that July appearance…

Dire Straits LegacyWednesday, 30 August 2023Ljubljana / L56 / Slovenia Dire Straits Legacy is a band that performs — as the name already hints — strictly Dire Straits material at their shows. Dire Straits? They've been off the scene…

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…

Jethro TullLjubljana / Hala Tivoli / SloveniaSunday, 3 June 2023, 8:00 PM The traditionally overcast prog-rock skies above Slovenia have, after a long string of dry years in terms of genre heavyweights showing up at our local venues…

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…

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 —…

"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…

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…

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: 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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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

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…

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?…

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…

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…

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 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: 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."

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…

" In relentless rain, then, the crowd pulled off a real act of heroism, born of a deep, sincere love of music, and Marcus Milller and his crew simply had to reward it with an outstanding show. "

Snarky Puppy's gig was a huge success despite the rain. The crowd made it clear that a return visit is more than welcome, because watching musicians play with this much perfectionism is a real treat.

"Fire!" the Swedish-Norwegian outfit, a proper "Scandi approach" to a potent fusion of rock and contemporary jazz mischief, dropped right into the heart of avant-eclecticism, sounds like a truly specific conglomerate of the rich…

"A bizarre enthronement of Zorn's explorative spirit, with a creative mission of playing church organs. This time the handy ones were simply those adorning the balcony of Gallus Hall in our Cankarjev dom."

"Paal Nilssen – Love: New Brazilian Funk play Ljubljana's Metelkova as the overture to the 60th Jazz Festival Ljubljana!"

"An hour and three quarters flew by in a heartbeat! Sting's presence is strong enough to win over the crowd and fill it with energy, easily and routinely, riding on a string of hits. The years just don't seem to touch him - may it stay that…

"A thoroughly devout "Prekmurje evening" on the second day of this year's GodiBodi festival, headlined by Edna and Ethnotrip."

"Day one of this year's GodiBodi festival of contemporary original and ethno music was all about Jernej Zoran & Ministrstvo Resnice and Fed Horses!

"Die Ärzte - the legendary German punk rock trio, playing an exclusive club show in the heart of the Slovenian capital, threw a perfect party-theater extravaganza for their German-speaking crowd, who snapped up the tickets and sold the show…

Location: Ljubljana / Cankarjev dom / SloveniaDate: Wednesday, 15.05.2019 Laibach remain an unstoppable fortress of Slovenian musical art. Last year they released a new album reworking the musical from the film "The Sound of Music"…

Location: Ljubljana / SOHO klub / SloveniaDate: Thursday, 25.04.2019 Šinobusi are a rock band from Novi Sad who hit Slovenian club stages every year. The band formed in 2001, and in not quite two decades it has put out five albums,…

Bullet For My Valentine won over a sold-out Kino Šiška with a tight, well-oiled show that lived up to expectations, with one exception: the whole thing was way too short.

Gripes aside, Septicflesh, Krisiun, Diabolical and Xaon put on a killer show at Orto bar, serving up a heaping helping of brutality, orchestration and darkness.

Location: Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / SloveniaDate: Thursday, 03/21/2019 At first, it seemed like Icelandic outfit Solstafir would be just another band lost in the flood of post-metal/rock acts. They undoubtedly showed potential…

A half-empty Kino Šiška hall got a gig that will stay etched in memory. With their superb tightness, inventive setlist, stage lights and sound, Riverside made it clear they're no accident as one of the most respected prog rock bands around…

Location: Orto bar / LjubljanaDate: Wednesday, 13. 2. 2019 The Australian death metal scene has been showing its quirks for a while now, and it's definitely a different beast from the American and European ones. Aussies are known for…

"Powered by the phenomenal Brainstorm and the excellent Mob Rules, a power metal storm in Ljubljana's Orto bar stirred up retro-nostalgic feelings of power metal's golden days!"

"We've stepped into the new year and into a fresh run of Thursday mass-gatherings in the thoroughly smoke-filled rooms of Orto bar, which our rock-solid "little polecats" look after, boldly and conscientiously, as always.

Location: Orto Bar, Ljubljana, Slovenia Date: Wednesday, December 5, 2018 It was the third fall show for fans of technical and progressive death metal. The tour rolled into Ljubljana's Orto Bar once again. Headlining were American technical…

Aborted, together with Cryptopsy, Benighted and Cytotoxin, delivered a night of extreme, brutal music and proved just how alive death metal is today.

With a show featuring Beyond Creation, Gorod, Entheos and Brought By Pain, fans of extreme and progressive metal got a hefty dose of musical satisfaction. The solid turnout proved that good times are ahead for bands serving up more complex,…

date: 31.10.2018 location: Ljubljana, CUK Kino Šiška, Slovenia performers: HammerFall, Armored Dawn October 31 - Halloween night. Yet another imported holiday pushed on us by Western consumer culture, though luckily it doesn't catch on…

Taake, Bölzer, One Tail, One Head and Slegest made sure Orto bar got a proper black metal mass. Attendees got one more confirmation that the gig season is a rich one, with black metal fans definitely not left out in the cold.

Primal Fear and Riot V make a smart pairing of two hard-rock institutions who build their musical vocabulary on the old-school legacy of heavy metal. Primal Fear have played Slovenia three times, at the Metal Camp, Metal Mania and Rock…

location: Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / Slovenia date: 01.08.2018 This time Kino Šiška played host to famed American hard rockers Mr. Big, who had their biggest commercial successes in the early nineties with a handful of hits, among…

"Brand-new album in their pocket, Demolition Group showed once again on the big stage of Kino Šiška what a rock'n'roll machine they are, and how much punch their musical rhetoric packs when you give the band room to really stretch out on…

Location: Ljubljana / Orto bar / Slovenia Date: Thursday, 12.04.2018 Adi Smolar is the guy who always brings cheer to the people. No point wasting words on that. A born party man. From head to toe. His folk-beloved musical catalog…

"With their first show in Slovenia, Trivium showed incredible tightness and the kind of professionalism that only comes from a lot of miles on the road. "

"With their Cankarjev dom show marking 10 years together, Prismojeni profesorji bluesa once again proved an incredible originality and authenticity that has no equal in Slovenia."

"The golden age of Therion is over, but that doesn't mean the band should be written off. With a more than solid show at Kino Šiška, Therion announced a new era and, at the same time, hope for the future."

location: Ljubljana / Dvorana Tivoli (Mala dvorana) / Slovenia date: 22.02.2018 Time, what is time? Actually, there's no such thing. An honest artist doesn't know it and doesn't even acknowledge it. Especially when you run into the…

"If I may close with a bit of basketball lingo: this was at least a triple-double with a 63 efficiency rating, and quite possibly one of the top contenders for gig of the year."

Location: Ljubljana / Orto bar / SloveniaDate: Thursday, November 16, 2017 Years ago, it was hard to imagine that modern progressive bands could fill even a smaller concert hall. Acts like Animals As Leaders, Scale The Summit and…

venue: Ljubljana / Dvorana Stožice / Slovenia date: 30.10.2017 Nick Cave and his band of "bad seeds" long ago earned honorary Slovenian citizenship over their long and prolific career. He belongs to that handful of foreign acts, the…

Location: Ljubljana / Arena Stožice / SloveniaDate: Tuesday, 06.06.2017 The American giants Green Day last set foot on Slovenian soil way back in February 1998, and first two years earlier, when the mega-successful Dookie had them…

"This time Vincent earns a 3+ for what he showed us, and if he comes back next time with the full lineup, that grade could go a lot higher."

Performing: Havok / Warbringer / Gorod / ExmortusLocation: Ljubljana / Orto bar / SloveniaDate: Thursday, April 20, 2017 Anyone who claims thrash is dead and played out should have been at Thursday's show (mainly for Warbringer,…

Opća OpasnostApril 21, 2017Ljubljana / Orto Bar / Slovenia Opća Opasnost is a Croatian hard rock outfit that's been at it since way back in 1992, formed in the town of Županja. After a decade-long break between 1997 and 2008, the…

"The band plays with undiminished power and fury even in their latest lineup, and with some mileage the new forces in the freshly rejuvenated group will settle into optimal effectiveness. So? Yes! Demolition Group are moving forward!"

Location: Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / SloveniaDate: 01.03.2017 It's unreal how time flies. Barely two and a half years have gone by since American alternative metallers Helmet dropped by CUK Kino Šiška on the tour where they played…

"That night, Helstar were greeted at Orto bar once again by all the people whose hearts beat for metal. Decked out in proper metal outfits, with proper metal attitude. That feeling when you walk into a gig and know you're in the right place…

Bridear2/20/2017Ljubljana / Orto bar / Slovenia Bridear, a Japanese all-female metal quintet formed in 2011 in the city of Fukuoka, stopped by the Slovenian capital on their European tour. The girls came to present their debut…

"The run of classics from the Beatlemania days carried on with »Eight Days A Week«, which is also the title of the documentary mentioned above about the live tours of the unforgettable foursome."

"Miha Kralj, whom some call the Yugoslav / Slovenian Jean-Michel Jarre (though he himself shies away from the nickname), reminded everyone in the Katedrala, the big hall of Kino Šiška, of his musical greatness, which even after all these…

"If this was one of Whitesnake's last shows in Coverdale's mighty career, you could say the still-vital frontman is saying goodbye to his fans in more than a dignified way."

"The old rock tomcat, with his crew behind him, threw an unforgettable rock party and took plenty of people back to the good old days, when rock was still fun to listen to and not the draining ordeal it all too often turns into these days"

Location: Ljubljana / SiTi Teater / SloveniaDate: Thursday, May 12, 2016 Katalena, probably the go-to band in Slovenia when the talk turns to reworking Slovenian folk music (on a thousand and one tunes), is marking 15 years of…

"The band put on a two-and-a-half-hour concert spectacle at Cvetličarna with 46 songs in total, a 15-minute break in the middle and a change of outfits. "

"All in all, Borknagar and Kampfar put black metal on full display, while Diabolical carried the death metal banner."

"Several times the singer mentioned getting goosebumps from the crowd's response. I'm convinced that a guy who gets such an emotional reaction will give it everything to keep getting that “fix”, and that's exactly what Sabaton do, which in…