Tolmin

We sat down with the duo Črt Batagelj and Matej Ahlin, better known as Dirty Skunks, to talk about the premiere of Tolminator, the new metal festival coming to Tolmin. It goes down at the well-known venue in Tolmin (and Sotočje) from July…

"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."

"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…

"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…

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…

Metaldays has been offering a so-called "early arrival" for a while now, meaning you can show up at the festival ahead of time. In the past that only meant camping early (and grabbing the best shady spots), but a few years ago the…

Location: Tolmin / Kinogledališče Tolmin / SloveniaDate: Saturday, 23.03.2019 "Človek ni zver" ("Man Is No Beast"). Damn right. Compared to man, the beast is small fry. Man is of course far worse. There isn't a word that could even…

"A night with Bad Notion's brilliance that seemed to have no end. A night of fantastic retro-nostalgic reliving of the elemental feelings written into the saga of the blues, which live on so authentically in the bloodstream of these…

A killer metal night on the last day of this November in the Northern Primorska capital of Tolmin, hosted by local power metallers Minotauro and Brazilian thrash metal revivalists Valvera!

place: Tolmin / Sotočje / Slovenia date: 18.08.2018 If day one of Motörcity festival was the more colorful one internationally, day two, with six acts in total, was all about waving Slovenian and British flags. Around midday the sky…

location: Tolmin / Sotočje / Slovenia date: 18.08.2018 A year has rolled by and the second Motörcity festival has landed in Tolmin. The second! A fresh gem for the Slovenian music scene, which keeps growing and maturing, meaning it's…

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…

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…

Location: Tolmin / Sotočje / SloveniaDate: 25.08.2017 And then came day two of the first (and historic) edition of the "Motörcity" festival in northern Primorska, on the idyllic spot where the Tolminka and Soča rivers meet. It's the…

Location: Tolmin / Sotočje / SloveniaDate: 24.08.2017 Gotta hand it to them. The crew behind Metaldays, PunkRock Holiday and Overjam has a huge heart. Fresh off trying out a winter edition of the famous Tolmin festival Metaldays,…

Location: Tolmin / Sotočje / SloveniaDate: Tuesday, 07/25/2017 After Monday's downpours we were all hoping Tuesday would feel a little less like Judgment Day, and luckily that more or less came true. So in the early afternoon we got…

"The response was truly lukewarm, even though the crowd was visibly enjoying itself throughout the show. Marilyn Manson sensed this flatness quickly and started acting extremely formal. Just enough to »pocket« another gig and a few rustling…

"No philosophizing here. Over a near two-hour, all-out show, the band once again delivered exactly what you expect from them, what you're used to from them: that superb dose of their very own rock'n'roll compound."

Yes, there are festivals with bigger reputations, better lineups, fatter budgets and plenty of other things Metaldays doesn't have, but there's only one Metaldays, and coming back to Tolmin every year feels like coming home. The year flew…

"Possessed could only wrap up their set one way, which was also the perfect finish to the day – Death Metal!"

"I can conclude that, energy-saving aside, King Diamond's show lived up to expectations as one of the highlights of MetalDays 2013."

Location: Tolmin / Sotočje / SloveniaDate: 25.07.2013 Day four of the festival kicked off with Italian folk metallers from Venice, Vallorch. The seven-piece don't bring any musical revolution to the table and instead tread…

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…

"Pentagram are nowhere near ready for retirement. A phenomenal close to the first day, its peak, and one of the best moments of this year's festival!"

"…and so the last Metal Camp festival is done. From now on we get MetalDays. Same scale, meaning one big-name headliner in the lineup and a festival of the same length. Let's hope the location stays at the confluence of the Tolminka and…

Location: Tolmin (the confluence of the Tolminka and Soča) / SloveniaDate: August 6, 2012 We moan every year, and we moan all year long. We (rightfully) complain about a lineup that looks like the roster of Nuclear Blast and/or the…

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 band has apparently decided to play only songs written after 2000 from now on. That's pretty sad, since the stuff from the eighties is cult, not to mention the unforgettable classic "Triumph Of The Steel" (1992). DeMaio snapping every…