Good news from Slovenia:
After two years of silence Metal Mania Open Air Festival succesfully rised from the dead last year with amusing performences of German thrash metal legends Destruction and Swedish death’n’roll kings Entombed.
Although this is the first Slovenian metal open air festival, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, this is not one of the biggest festivals and neither the one with the worlds most popular stars, but trides itself on pleasant atmosphere in beautiful and idylic landscape of Slovenian Karst, where the main focus is on quality socializing and having fun.
The musical side of the festival is also not insignificant, so the headliners of this years edition will be German heavy metal veterans Primal Fear and Norvegian black/thrash sensation Aura Noir, featuring some current and former members of Satyricon, Immortal, Mayhem, Gorgoroth, Ulver, Ava Inferential, Cadaver Inc., Dodheimsgard, Infernö and many others.
Of course, there will be some room for a little musical treats, like British cult NWOBHM/doom metal band Pagan Altar, which was established in 1976, but disappeared from the stages in the early 80s. Or Italian black metal group Necromass whose debut album Mysteria Mystica Zothyriana from 1994 is still considered as one of the milestones of this genre.
Like every year so far the organizers are trying to offer an opportunity especially to outstanding local bands, who are once again represented quite good.
