Metalsteel

The heavy metal band Metalsteel began playing in 2000 with four members; Beny Kic - guitars and vocals, Matej Susnik - bass guitar, Jasa Bizjak - drums and Rok Tomsic - guitars. Their first performance was at the School's Out festival in their hometown Medvode. Soon Alex Skofjanec takes over the lead vocals and the band plays numerous shows in Slovenia. At the end of 2001 the group recorded their first demo called Metalsteel 1. The demo has been introduced to public at many clubs and festivals. Soon US metal magazines Metal Maniacs and Rockbottom published reviews of the demo.
One year later Metalsteel recorded song "Novi Svet" (New World) which was placed on the SLO METAL VOL.1 Compilation. After the compilation was released, Jasa Bizjak left the band due to disagreements. He was replaced by female drummer Dasa Trampus. The band recorded a video for "Novi Svet" and played a lot of shows at biker meetings.
In July 2003 the band finally recorded their debut album titled "Usoda" (Destiny), under the Play Records label. The album, which contains 13 songs, was followed by a few promotional concerts and a few shows with the famous Slovenian group REQUIEM.
In 2004 the group recorded a video for the song "Fobia" (Morbid Dread), which introduced to the public in February at the Medvode cinema. The concert was recorded in DVD format, but was never officially released. The band continued touring and played a lot of festivals including METALCAMP 2004 where they played with metal giants like DANZIG, HYPOCRISY, DESTRUCTION,.
Soon Alex leaves the band due to different interests.
Beny Kic took over the lead vocals on their second album "Taste The Sin" which was released in December 2005, produced by Mark Lemer in RealTime studio.
Band goes on an all-Slovenian tour. They played as a support band for legendary HELLOWEEN.
In winter 2005, Metalsteel also shot a new video for "Heavy Metal Is Our Religion" and signed the contract with Korean Rock Stakk Records and German Hellion Records to distribute their albums in Germany and Japan.
While continuing their all Slovenian tour, Metalsteel also played with ex-yu pioneers DIVLJE JAGODE,OSMI PUTNIK and POMARANCA and also with legendary heavy metal band W.A.S.P.
In Avgust 2007 Metalsteel went to Studio Ork and recorded their third album called Bad in Bed. Single from the album Bad in Bed - ballad "Spomin" (Memories) was chosen for the song of the week on a Slovenian National radio. The album is also distributed by Rock Stakk Records in Korea and Hellion records in Germany.Metalsteel promotes the new album on another Slovenian tour and plans to play some gigs abroad.
Their plans to play abroad finally come true in Summer 2009 as the band performes on the legendary festival GITARIJADA in Serbia. In August 2009 Metalsteel also joined forces with JAMES RIVERA (Helstar, Seven witches, ex Vicious Rumors) and formed the European project SABBATH JUDAS SABBATH). The band played all over Europe.
In December 2010 Metalsteel plans to release their 4th album titled Entertainment.