Mystic Pageant’s Heat Up Day Stayed Excessive And Dry

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Mystic Pageant’s Heat Up Day Stayed Excessive And Dry And Delivered Per Typical

Mystic Pageant celebrated its twenty fifth anniversary throughout this 12 months’s version of the Poland primarily based, summer time metallic competition. This was my third 12 months in a row attending this underneath the radar metallic fest. Similar to the beloved Polish dish of pierogi, every one has been barely totally different and even higher than the earlier 12 months’s.

The competition added some greater names to this 12 months’s heat up day and regardless that mom nature was threatening to make it a soggy event, it didn’t cease it from being the busiest heat up day I’ve been to throughout the previous three years. Mystic Pageant is unquestionably extra outfitted to deal with a wet day. There may be loads of seating contained in the meals court docket space and there are some giant, tented merch areas the place you may as well hold your battle vests dry.

The primary band of the day and Mystic Pageant was Poland primarily based thrashers, Hellfuck. Hellfuck is fronted by Azarath’s Marcin Sienkiel and I subconsciously anticipated them to sound like a thrash model of that band. I used to be pleasantly mistaken. They’ve their very own distinctive sound with some homage to 1980’s period thrash. There was a pleasant dimension crowd there for them I seen a number of Hellfuck shirts speckled all through their viewers. It was good seeing the hometown crowd supporting one in all their very own.

Marcin Sienkiel of Hellfuck

Subsequent up was one of many bands I used to be most wanting ahead to the entire competition, Worry Manufacturing facility. I hadn’t seen them since their “Soul of a New Machine” tour within the early 1990’s, so it’s been a minute. This was clearly my first-time seeing Milo Silvestro because the vocalist and I’ve to say I used to be pleasantly shocked. His vocals had quite a lot of results on them, however for my part, he has a vocal vary similar to Burton C. Bell. I solely acquired to look at a number of songs, however throughout “Edgecrusher,” I noticed an unfortunate fan get soaked by their very own beer as soon as the refrain kicked in. Professional tip: In case you have a full beer, by no means stand that near the pit! It’s factor that beers are cheap at Mystic Pageant.

Milo Silvestro of Worry Manufacturing facility

Despite the fact that Occasion Cannon was taking part in indoors, the climate was nonetheless inflicting hiccups on and off all through the day. There was an influence outage on the Shrine Stage once I arrived and Occasion Cannon was standing round ready for it to return again on. After about ten minutes of nothing, the gang began getting stressed. One thing needed to give…

Occasion Cannon

No energy? No problema. Occasion Cannon acquired artistic and handled the antsy crowd to what may be a primary, an unplugged slam loss of life set! This was sensible transfer on the band’s half. Despite the fact that you could possibly solely hear the drums, they performed like their lives trusted it. The pit was simply as intense. Sadly, by the point the ability got here again on, I needed to depart for the subsequent band on the checklist, Physique Depend.

Physique Depend was one other band that I used to be most wanting ahead to. I’ve by no means seen them earlier than and I actually needed to see how the dynamic would play out between the principally Polish crowd and this legendary thrash band from Los Angeles, California.

Ice-T of Physique Depend

Once I arrived on the Park Stage, I seen many a Physique Depend shirt all through the gang and so they have been chanting “Physique Depend!” proper as much as the beginning of the band’s intro music. The spotlight of the set for me was seeing them cowl Slayer’s “Reign in Blood.” The pit was brutal. My spouse was making an attempt to catch some video on the sting of mentioned pit and he or she was getting pelted with flying our bodies continuously. I can actually say that Ice-T at 66 years previous, can nonetheless thrash with the perfect of them.

After I took benefit of some downtime between bands to take a look at among the meals truck choices (there’s A LOT of selection at this competition), it was time to make a troublesome selection. Do I see Suffocation, or Vio-Lence?

The schedule had slated each of them to start out on the identical time. The venues are shut to one another, however the space separating each phases all the time will get tremendous crowded when each are going on the identical time. There can be no method of seeing each of them. I saved listening to rumors that Rob Flynn (one of many unique Vio-Lence guitarists) from Machine Head can be making a cameo look throughout the Vio-Lence set, in order that sealed it for me.

Sean Killian of Vio-Lence

“Everlasting Nightmare” has principally been Vio-Lence’s opening music ever since their reformation a number of years in the past, however it by no means will get previous. You may really feel the adrenaline surging within the venue each time they begin off with it. This time was no totally different. Sean Killian is a grasp of hyping up any crowd, at any time and/or wherever. This was my first time witnessing the band with none unique member apart from Sean Killian on the stage. The visible was just a little unusual at first, however this band was tremendous tight! They gave the songs their due justice in the way in which Bay Space thrash is meant to sound. By the point I needed to depart for Heat Up night time’s headliner Kreator, I had sadly missed Rob Flynn’s look. However alas, watching Sean Killian crowd surf for a few minutes within the entrance row whereas he let the gang sing “Phobophobia” was fairly superior in itself.

Kreator

I’m going to preface my Kreator assessment with that I wasn’t wanting ahead to seeing them as a headliner for this competition. I’ve seen them a number of instances (4 instances) over the previous couple of years and regardless that I used to be an enormous fan of their earliest work, their present sound and setlist doesn’t do it for me. With that being mentioned, pyro is all the time enjoyable at festivals and Kreator used it successfully throughout their first music, “Hate Über Alles.” After I had the pictures that I wanted for the visuals, I referred to as it a day. The nice and cozy up day was wonderful general and the on and off rain didn’t trigger any main disruption. The forecast for tomorrow’s first full day was for sunny skies all day lengthy.

Steel is not only a sort of music, it is a way of life for Nikos Mixas. Along with taking part in guitar for the Phoenix’s personal Mosara, he is a contributing author for V13 and The Sludgelord. And when he is taking a break from all of it and on trip, you’ll be able to nearly be sure he is banging his head at a metallic competition someplace attention-grabbing.