Teleport

Day two of Live After Death 2016 was every bit as warm and homey as the first, which is the festival's greatest strength.

For the first time in their four-decade career, NWOBHM elders Raven honored us with a visit, proving that sixty-somethings can kick the kids' asses for fun.

The Kadilnica of Death opened its doors for the fall gig season, and Teleport, Nephrolith and Mephistophelian shook the place with thrash, death and black metal!

September doesn't just mean the start of school and the autumn doldrums in Ljubljana, when the tourists vanish, the students aren't back yet, and you keep waking up to foggy mornings. It also means the start, and revival, of club shows.

Snow, razor-sharp icicles, every kind of heavenly smackdown and a hellish horde from the sky couldn't stop the gallop to Kranj's Transtation Squat on Saturday night. It turned into another venue for an outstanding metal spectacle, and we…