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NietSaturday, 9 Aug 2025Castra (castle walls), Ajdovščina, Slovenia "Every weapon brings sufferingAnd every suffering turns into revolt" When your wife buys concert tickets, you don't say "niet" — even if you're not a fan of the…

Janez Bončina BenčTuesday, July 22, 2025Postojna / Titov trg / Slovenia Benč's musical legacy is essential — let's just say it straight: must-have inventory in every Slovenian household. We're talking about musical art here, of…

Gloryhammer / Visions Of Atlantis / Moonlight HazeWednesday, 9 July 2025, 19:00–22:30Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / Slovenia Gloryhammer confirmed the European dates of their new "Dundax Ascendant" tour back in March! At select shows…

Performing: Lintver / Eruption / ExodusDate: Tuesday, 24 June 2025Venue: Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / Slovenia Exodus are widely regarded as one of the most important bands to emerge from the San Francisco Bay Area at the turn of…

Avenged SevenfoldLjubljana / Križanke / SloveniaWednesday, 18 June 2025, doors at 19:00, concert starts at 21:30 And then there are those special concerts. Special tours. Special bands! They go straight into the "Unforgettable!"…

A Day To Remember (support: Polaris)Ljubljana / Media Park / SloveniaTuesday, 17 June 2025 A Day To Remember are a massively successful American outfit that rolls punk rock, hardcore, and metalcore into one, nurturing a synthesis of…

Performing: Sylosis, Paleface Swiss, Jinjer, In FlamesLjubljana / Media Center / SloveniaDate: Tuesday, June 10, 2025, from 5:00 PM (doors) to 11:00 PM It doesn't happen every day that you get handed a bouquet of stylistically…

Riot V, Crystal Viper, MetalsteelSaturday, 3 May 2025Klub Jedro, Medvode, Slovenia "Metal unity, metal oneness, metal solidarity" Dear metalheads, dear rockers, dear readers of this e-zine — and everyone else along for the ride.…

Unforigven 4 - Metallica tributeFriday, 25 April 2025, 9:30 PM – 11:45 PMMedvode / MC Jedro / Slovenia Unforgiven 4 is a Metallica tribute band that got started in the summer of 2018. A quartet made up of four outstanding musicians…

Benediction (support acts: Razvalina & Hobos)Friday, 18 April 2025, 20:30–23:40Solkan (Nova Gorica) / Mostovna / Slovenia Benediction are death metal legends. They're no strangers to Slovenia, yet given their more-than-enviable…

Tarja Turunen & Marko Hietala (opening act: Aaetheria)Monday, March 10, 2025Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / Slovenia The long-awaited onstage reunion of two legendary — and, for many, sadly former — classic Nightwish members has…

Eluveitie (special guests: Ad Infinitum, Infected Rain)Tuesday, 11 February 2025Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / Slovenia Eluveitie are one of those — how do you put it — generational bands that have really taken hold with metal crowds…

PAIN (special guests: Oceans)Wednesday, 12 Feb 2025Ljubljana / Cvetličarna / Slovenia Peter Tägtgren! This is the man widely regarded as one of the central figures of heavy metal over the last thirty years — not only as a producer…

Date: Friday, 7 Feb 2025Venue: Kranjska Gora, main squarePerformers: some kid with an acoustic guitar, Plavi orkestar in their original lineup "Still need a bit more practice" During a short break in Kranjska Gora I was checking…

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…

AvtomobiliWednesday, 11. 12. 2024Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / Slovenia Avtomobili are legends of Slovenian rock and roll! A four-wheeled quintet always on the move, immortalized by the element of a uniquely organic, self-grown…

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…

Jonathan Kreisberg QuartetThursday, 18 July 2024, from 8:30 PM onwardsPostojna / Titov trg / Slovenia Jazz hasn't exactly been a fixture on Rockline's concert menu for a while now. Or has it? Since this May, when we twice 'strayed'…

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,…

SiddhartaSunday, 23 June 2024, from 9:30 PM to 10:35 PMPiran / Tartinijev trg / Slovenia There's no better way to cap off a particularly 'intense' June week like this year's than on a Sunday — especially with a plate of…

Marco MendozaFriday, 14 June 2024Portorož / Rock'N'Roll Circus / Slovenia Marco Mendoza is a musician with quite a few stories under his belt. In his career, he's seen pretty much everything. The last major band we saw him with was…

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…

Bill Evans & The Vansband All StarsPortorož / Avditorij Portorož / SloveniaSaturday, May 18, 2024 Bill Evans is a saxophone legend — and we can say that with absolute certainty today. Over his storied career, the man first made…

The Wooten BrothersThursday, 9 May 2024, at 8:00 PMPortorož / Avditorij / Slovenia The Wooten Brothers' visit to Portorož's Avditorij delivered one of the concert highlights of the year when it comes to jazz programming in Slovenia.…

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…

Robert Plant & Saving Grace (ft. Suzi Dian)Thursday, 24 August 2023Portorož / Avditorij / Slovenia Robert Plant is one of the essential voices in the story of rock music. His colossal vocal stamp on that story is impossible to…

Incantation (support: Cryptic Terror)Ilirska Bistrica / MKNŽ (Mladinski klub Nade Žagar) / SloveniaMonday, 17 July 2023 Incantation are today considered legends of death metal. They are, practically speaking, one of the pioneering…

Performing: Šank RockDate: Friday, 16 June 2023Venue: Velenje / Velenje Lake (Vista park) / Slovenia ...at the concert of concerts, one we'll never forget! Šank Rock! The combination of those two words stirs something deep. It…

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 —…

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…

"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…

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: 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: 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…

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…

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…

"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."

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!"

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…

"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.'"

"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."

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?…

"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…

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…

"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…

"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

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.…

"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."

" 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. "

"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…

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…

"An outstanding show of experimental jazz excess from the four-piece collective Shanir Blumenkranz’ Abraxas, walking in John Zorn's footsteps in Slovenia's jazz temple, Cerkno."

"Along with its fascinating character and its painstaking fusion of musical moves, the album »Open Your Eyes« stands out as one of the most interesting and daring pop releases to come out last year on the sunny side of the Alps."

Location: Tolmin / Sotočje / Slovenia Date: Saturday, July 27, 2018 Five days of non-stop metal, and the last day of the festival still showed up way too soon. Thanks to the wonderful atmosphere, top-notch organization and a really…

"The band is surely not going to call it quits anytime soon. That much is certain. But if Judas Priest ever do decide to, it'll make perfect sense and be totally in order. They've done their thing. They have nothing left to prove. The only…

"There was no shortage of attention from the ladies, and it kept him going long after the show, when he just couldn't tear himself away from hanging out at Hangar Bar."

"Žen are musicians who know exactly what they want. Their musical vision is firmly chiseled, and it's confirmed by the eclectic expression that runs through their original music, which makes them downright special and unique in the…

"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."

"Demolition Group are a band that always delivers their concert maximum. And this time was no different. The show at Gabrijel bar was in the category of those one-of-a-kind gigs you simply never forget"

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…

"This round of musical revelry at C.M.A.K. featured the Belgian alternative rock trio Brutus. The band, who recently dropped their debut “Burst”, are getting more and more well known and are increasingly in demand on stages across Europe.…