The venue grew out of the legendary series of Black Friday concerts, which have been held in Riga since the early 1990s, whenever the 13th day of a month falls on a Friday.
The club opened on Friday, May 13, 2006, with a show by the leading Latvian, technical, death metal band Neglected Fields whose front man, Sergejs "Destruction" Kustovs, became a co-owner of the venue.