NO USE FOR A NAME – No Use For A Title

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 RASMUS

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, somewhere in Belgrade 2009

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 […]

EXTREME AGGRESSION – The Deutsch Metal invasion, Chapter 2

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 […]

SOFIA UBER ALLES – The Deutsch Metal invasion, Chapter 1

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 Arise in Sofia

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 […]