Slovenia

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…

And on the very last day, instead of a souvenir shirt, the organizers could've just printed "I Survived the Hell of Metaldays 2019" tees, because weather-wise this year's festival was without a doubt one of the hottest ever. But we scraped…

Thursday in Tolmin promised hellish heat again, and the organizers warned festival-goers about it too. In weather like this, the nearby river and the free drinking water all over the festival grounds come in really handy. Thursday was also…

The golden mean turned out to be a hellish one this time, because Tolmin got probably one of the worst heat waves of the summer. But the most beautiful festival site in the world has the Soča to cool down overheated heads, loads of side…

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…

location: Bled / Jezerska promenada / Slovenia date: 02.08.2018 English guitar legend and folk rock pioneer Richard Thompson first rose to fame as a founding member of the unforgettable folk rock icons Fairport Convention, with…

Location: Tolmin / Sotočje / Slovenia Date: 07/23/2018 Metaldays, which has been putting Slovenia on the map as a country with big metal festivals ever since 2004, is always a pleasure to come back to. Over the years it has become…

"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. "

"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: Tolmin / Sotočje / SloveniaDate: July 23, 2013 On day two, Calling of Lorme! kicked things off on the second stage. The band cultivates a kind of alternative metal spiked with industrial, and their "cyber" pecking made it clear…

"Meeting Threshold was unforgettable and one of a kind! We probably saw them in Ljubljana for the first time, the last time, and never again."

Location: Tolmin (confluence of the Tolminka and Soča) / Slovenia Date: August 9, 2012 Day four of this year's Metal Camp 2012 has arrived, a festival we'll never cover under the "Metal Camp" banner again! Day four was actually the…

"Davis worked absolute wonders with his vocals, and across the sheer range the KoЯn repertoire demands, he didn't slip for a single second. A bomb of a performance that, as expected, swept the competition away! The third day of the festival…

"The sound could probably have been handled a lot better too. It was downright catastrophic, and the biggest fans got shortchanged most of all, since the sound was supposedly worst right under the stage."