Uncompromising Body Count, veterans from Sodom, metalcore visionaries from Crystal Lake and Lik, 100% of Swedish death metal, are coming to Mystic Festival 2024.
Body Count
In the 1990s, combining metal and rap was a fresh and trendy concept, but Body Count is an exception, because although they had a popular rapper at the front, they measured the ratio decidedly in favor of furious thrash. The strength of Body Count is first and foremost Ernie C.’s riffs as well as the vocals and charisma of Ice T. Not to mention their uncompromising nature, because to start making your history with a track like “Cop Killer” you have to be fearless. To get a Grammy after nearly three decades – consistent. Body Count have already announced a new album, “Merciless” – and yes, they are also merciless.
Sodom
40 years at war, but Sodom are not thinking of laying down their arms and retiring. They are the pioneers who wrote the history of the Big Four of Teutonic Thrash Metal, inspiring generations of extreme artists. Sodom never strayed from their course, though they changed and evolved at the same time. “Obsessed By Cruelty”, “Agent Orange” or “M-16” are, after all, completely different albums – but all excellent and all of them already belong to the canon of European metal.
Crystal Lake
Technical proficiency, unrestrained imagination and a crystal – nomen omen – pure sound are what Crystal Lake is all about. In 2023, the Tokyo quintet gained a new voice, in the shape of John Robert Centorrino (ex-The Last Ten Seconds of Life), and began a new chapter with the excellent single “Dystopia”, consistently balancing metalcore and prog-metal.
Lik
Those who are familiar with the album “Misanthropic Breed”, the third full-length in Lik’s discography, will know the opening scream of pain. That’s what you’ll be singing too if you walk up to the stage for a show by this Stockholm quartet. This is death metal in its purest form, a follow-up to the work of destruction once started by Entombed or Dismember. By the time Lik show up in Gdansk, their fourth album, sure to be as brutal as the others, should be ready.
The Mystic Festival 2024 will take place at the Gdansk Shipyard from June 5-8.
The program includes Bring Me The Horizon, Machine Head, Bruce Dickinson, Satyricon, Accept, Biohazard, Chelsea Wolfe, Body Count, Sodom, Furia, Thy Art Is Murder, Life Of Agony, Leprous, Lord Of The Lost, Graveyard, High On Fire, Orange Goblin, Suffocation, Vio-Lence, Ithaka, Asphyx, Mysticum, Blackgold, Crystal Lake, Endseeker, Humanity’s Last Breath, Lamp of Murmuur, Wayfarer, Lik, Ghøstkid and Sanguisugabogg.
For more information and tickets go to: www.2024.mysticfestival.pl.
Currently on sale:
– Early Bird four-day passes, priced at PLN 749.
– Four-day VIP passes, priced at PLN 1299.
You can also purchase festival passes through the eBilet website – installment sales are available. Buy today, pay later.
The festival is organized by Mystic Coalition, an alliance of companies with vast experience in the concert, festival and recording market. It consists of Knock Out Productions, Mystic Production and B90.
Knock Out Productions
http://www.knockoutprod.net
Mystic Production
B90