BABYFACE CLAN , Panican Whyasker, Animacionerite09.04.2009, Blue Box club, Sofia words by: Stefan Topuzov, photo: begemot. I’ll have to admit that alternative music is on the outskirts of my musical taste. And even if my interest was limited, I could notice that there wasn’t pretty much any of it in Bulgaria in recent years. Last […]

GORGON ELECTRO MINI FEST III -COMBICHRIST, Aesthetic Perfection, Virgins o.r. Pigeons, Shemale Zero29.03.2009, ‘Blue Box’ club, Sofia – Bulgaria words byВ Nick The Stripper, photo: Dee Dee Sunday is a day for lying around and, in the words of Jack Kerouac, practicing “do-nothing”. Tis a day to be competely and utterly and wonderfully lazy…unless you’re an […]

IN FLAMES, Urban Grey20.03.2009,В ‘Denitsa hall’, Sofia – BulgariaВ  words by Steffan Yordanov, photos:В  begemot … And the Bulgarian audience has no fucking reason to complain about their first gig here, in Sofia. The venue was a great choice. Only 2000 km West places like ‘Denitsa’ hall are may be the most desirable ones because they […]

SOULFLY, Hornsman Coyote, Incite, Senser, Subscribe, Artery15.03.2009,В ‘Universiada’ hall,В Sofia, BulgariaВ  words by Steffan Yordanov, photos:В  begemot It’s not a secret any more that Soulfly have invested a lot of their heart and soul into Bulgarian audience for the last 7 years and that is why the band’s fourth coming sold out ‘Universiada’ hall to 2000 people. […]

LORDI, Brandon AshleyВ & the Silverbugs, Fatal Smile 6.05.2009 Sofia,В “Hristo Botev” hallВ  words by Stefan Topuzov, photo: Diamond_Adi. They are probably the only big thing that Europe has come up with in terms of SHOCK ROCK in a while. LORDI look like GWAR, but without the extra profanity volume, and provide a theatrics heavy show comparable […]

ST. VALENTINE RIOTNO USE FOR A NAME, Crowfish, A-Moral, Empty Face, La Muchedumbre, Perfect Skies, Rise Above14.02.2009Sofia, 4km party centre Words by: Nikki The Stripper, photo: Dee Dee Some people spend St. Valentine’s in a fancy restaurant, eating dinner, amidst candles. Others spend it naked in bed, with candles also…dripping hot wax on their skin. […]

ST. VALENTINE RIOTNO USE FOR A NAME, Crowfish, A-Moral, Empty Face, La Muchedumbre, Perfect Skies, Rise Above 14.02.2009 ‘4km Party Centre’, Sofia, Bulgaria Words by: Nikki The Stripper, photo: Dee Dee Some people spend St. Valentine’s in a fancy restaurant, eating dinner, amidst candles. Others spend it naked in bed, with candles also…dripping hot wax […]

THE RASMUS12.02.2009 ‘Universiada’ hall, Sofia, Bulgaria Words by: Metal Willie, photo: Begemot The Rasmus – reviled by many a “serious” music fan and adored by their shrill-voiced legions of pubescent girlies. And it is, of course, the latter who make up most of the 1,500 + crowd in this 3,000 capacity venue in Bulgaria’s capital […]

IRON MAIDEN, Lauren Harris10.02.2009 Belgrade,В “Beogradska Arena”В  words by Steffan Yordanov, photos: Steffan Yordanov. 150 Bulgarians in 4 buses enjoyed the “honour’ of being escorted or rather pushed by three police cars all the way from the Serbian border to one particular hall in Belgrade, where Iron Madien started their 4th leg of SBIT tour. Reason […]

KREATOR, CALIBAN, ELUVEITIE, Emergency Gate7.02.2009 Sofia,В “Universiada” hallВ  words by Stefan Topuzov, photo: Victor Alexandrov. The German series in Sofia continues into Sunday. And if the previous night the love and Bulgarian-German friendship were the key moments, in Episode 2 they were: hate and aggression. The extreme kind! And class! For example class is what openers […]