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 […]

GRAVE DIGGER, SODOM, Granulom, Symbolic7.02.2009 Sofia,В “Hristo Botev” hallВ  words by Stefan Topuzov, photo: Victor Alexandrov. The always strong love and friendship between the BULGARIAN and GERMAN peoples drew around 2 to 3 thousand people to SofiaВґs “Hristo Botev” hall on Saturday. ItВґs not like anyone had come earlier but the whole thing started at least […]

SEPULTURA, The Sorrow, Urban Grey6.02.2009 Sofia,В “Blue Box” clubВ  words byВ Metal Willie, photo: Victor Alexandrov & Begemot Tangra Mega Rock’s 3rd anniversary was bound to be a glorious carnage of beer, sweat and metal!!! Sofia isn’t exactly San Francisco’s Bay Area of the 80’s, but tonight- February 6th 2009 it was oozing aggression, energy, and most […]

SAMAEL, Keep Of Kalessin, Noctiferia31.01.2009 Sofia,В “Blue Box” club Words by: Ivaylo Alexandrov, photo: Victor Alexandrov I went home after the concert tonight, I opened up a beer and I’ve listened to the music in my head. A minute later they switched off the electricity. I sworn silently, lit a candle and I continued listening to […]

NAPALM DEATH, PAST REDEMPTION, ADIM, STARO ZLO11.01.2009 ‘4km Party Centre’, Sofia, Bulgaria Words by: Metal Willie, photo: Begemot What a fucking brilliant way to kickstart the new year! This stonker of a show must already be a strong favourite for best extreme metal gig of 2009 in Bulgaria! Four bands, all ripping the shit out […]

After The Sisters of Mercy in Burgas this summer, at the very end of the year it came time to hear another of the big gothic rock / dark wave bands on a concert here. Clan of XymoxВ  may have fewer fans in our country but about 250 people in Party Center ‘4 km’ made […]