Mary Rose

On August 18, 2026, we received the sad news that Jurček Škodič, the original bassist of Mary Rose, has passed away. He was 71 years old. In 1984 he co-founded the band Babylon, together with drummer Mitja Šabec. The two later joined…

Mary Rose from Postojna are one of Slovenia's best-known hard rock and heavy metal bands. Formed in 1987, they're still creatively active in 2026, three studio albums in, despite plenty of ups and downs and lineup changes. Their music…

Mary Rose, the grand old guard and trailblazers of Slovenian glam metal and hard rock, have dropped a new original track called Zbudi se, complete with an official music video. You can check out the video below. Mary Rose recorded the…

Mary RoseSaturday, 18 January 2025Koper / Snack Bar (Aquapark Hotel Žusterna) / Slovenia Mary Rose are Slovenian rock legends. The confirmed gig at Koper's Žusterna came almost tailor-made for the classic post-New Year concert…

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,…

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…

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”…

Albums upon albums. Bands upon bands. And it was the eighties. The very eighties that swept through Slovenia too and carried it into a lively hard rock and heavy metal movement, which in the second half of the decade also gave birth to the…

This RockLine piece is all about albums by Slovenian artists that came out last year and are simply too good not to shout about. So here we go! RockLine has dug through the best of the best that the Slovenian music scene gave us last year:…

"An album signed in sweat and blood. With the pedigree to grow into a classic of Slovenian hard rock, that's Mary Rose on "Resničen svet"! Thirteen years after the release of "Feniks", they're happily back among the living!"

"The foundations of a new era are laid. Now it's up to Mary Rose to pour as much energy as possible into promoting the album, find their place on the airwaves and concert stages, and claim the spot in the music world that the most carefully…

Photo snapshots of the gig scene in Postojna on 05/26/2012, when Divlje Jagode, Mary Rose and Gringo! played Ambasada YU

"Almost two hours of wandering through their set convinced me once again that Mary Rose are one of a kind on the Slovenian hard rock map"

The traditional Saturday metal nights at the Fabrka club, just a stone's throw from the center of Ljubljana, in the shadow of Ljubljana Castle, gave way to live music this time around. Ahead of the release of the long-awaited follow-up…

Author: Urban BoltaPhotos: Urban Bolta Venue: Lokal Patriot / Novo mesto / SloveniaConcert date: 15.12.2011Attendance: 50Ticket price: 3€ / 5€ The Friday announcement of a gig by Primorska hard/heavy rock veterans Mary Rose in Novo mesto…

Author: Urban BoltaPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Velike Malence (Brežice) / SloveniaConcert date: 19.08.2011Attendance: 1000Ticket price: free admission The year has flown by, and as tradition dictates, the third weekend of the last…

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Športna dvorana / Postojna / SloveniaConcert date: 24.12.2010Attendance: 1200Ticket price: 13,00€ For the seventeenth year in a row, Postojna hosted the traditional Božični rock…

Location: PostojnaConcert date: 22.05.2009Attendance: 2000Ticket price: 25 € We live in confusing times, when nostalgic sighing, with the grains of time trickling through the hourglass, seems to be on the rise. Tribute bands are popping up…

Venue: Športna dvorana PostojnaConcert date: 24.12.2008Attendance: 2000Ticket price: 15 € This year Postojna once again hosted the traditional Christmas rock fest, which for 15 years running has been dutifully taking care of burning off…

Venue: Klub Jazzy, PostojnaConcert date: 04/19/2008Attendance: 200Ticket price: 10 € "I came straight from London just for this gig," says John Lawton in his unmistakable English accent, while his old pals in Mary Rose busily tinker…

Concert date: 25.12.2007Attendance: 25Ticket price: 3000 Christmas: the season of love, harmony, mutual respect and, above all, understanding. For years now in Postojna (this time it's the 14th year in a row, to be exact), tradition has…

Location: Baredi (Izola) / SloveniaConcert date: 03.08.2007Attendance: 200Ticket price: 5.00€ The biker get-together that the coastal fans of petrol fumes, leather, Pez candy and assorted other S&M accessories threw for the…

Location: SežanaConcert date: 10.02.2007Attendance: 40Ticket price: Free admission I first ran into Mary Rose back in 2006 at Križanke, and if I'm being completely honest, I don't remember their set in much detail, probably thanks to the…

Saturday, seven in the evening. The weather decided to stay at a level of morbid gray, which the darkness that fell over our capital at least partly hides, so the three musketeers and a young lady set off from there toward Sežana. The…

"Mary Rose return in grand, triumphant style with "Feniks". I'd go so far as to say that with the birth of "Feniks", after the slump with Martin Krpan, we're finally seeing the glory and honor of healthy melodic hard rock restored in…

No, no, no! It's finally here! "Feniks" - the second album from Slovenian hard rock legends Mary Rose, from Postojna. Before we get into a detailed breakdown, let's run through a few basic facts. This album took a long time to make, a very…

Location: Hruševje (Postojna) / Quarry / SloveniaConcert date: 17.08.2006Attendance: 1208Ticket price: 1000 Sometimes the weather really messes with you and throws everything into chaos when it shouldn't, not even in anyone's…

"Križanke couldn't handle all that Whitesnake volume. How was Plečnik supposed to know 100 years ago that Whitesnake would play here one day, and build in extra elements for it?"

This was a classic rock event, and a hugely important one for Slovenia. It proved that Slovenians still care about the kind of music scene that ruled the seventies and eighties. The elemental energy of the coiled snake!