Mystic Competition (PL) Nonetheless In Giving Temper Publicizes New Bands For 2026
4 new names and 4 new factors on the amplitude of feelings awaiting you in Gdansk, Poland this June. We welcome onboard Psychonaut, vianova, Escuela Grind, and Return To Mud.
Psychonaut
World Maker, Psychonaut’s newest album, is a narrative of pleasure and loss, of start and of demise. Solely music can seize such advanced and opposite feelings. The Belgians have grounded their fashion within the extremes; they counterbalance darkness and heaviness with melodies and class. Their psychedelic and progressive post-metal ensures a journey nobody else may take you on.
vianova
Felix and Paul Vogelgesang, blood brothers and companions in crime, based their band to not stream with the present, however to shock you with electrical present. On their debut album launched in September, Hit It!, the Berlin four-piece redefines metalcore. At instances, it’s sharp and raging, then it switches to one thing verging on pop, at all times holding you in your toes and holding it contemporary. There’s chaos right here, there’s enjoyable, but additionally an unique inventive imaginative and prescient.
Escuela Grind
On this college, they train extra than simply grind – you can too count on lectures on powerviolence, hardcore, demise metallic… The Massachusetts five-piece was a straight-A pupil, now they maintain a professorship in brutality. Escuela Grind has been round for a decade, extremely productive each within the studio and on stage. You’ll understand it’s them from their uncompromising music, engaged lyrics – howled passionately by Katerina Economou – and from the grovel left within the wake of their efficiency.
Return To Mud
Do you keep in mind that Los Angeles was the capital of laborious rock? Perhaps because of Return To Mud the fantastic previous of the town will come to be as soon as extra. The band was fashioned in 2022 and shortly drew consideration to themselves with their music which marries one of the best traditions of the laborious rock sound of the West Coast, from the gloomy songs of Alice In Chains to the bravado of glam. Their self-titled debut album, launched in 2024, was an easy announcement who will come to dominate this music sooner or later.
The competition line-up contains Megadeth, Behemoth, Black Label Society, Anthrax, Down, Mastodon, Saxon, Blood Incantation, Ice 9 Kills, Cavalera performs Chaos A.D., Overkill, The Gathering performs Mandylion, Carpenter Brut, Bloodywood, Corrosion Of Conformity, Decapitated, Dying To All, Six Ft Underneath, Static-X, Scour, Marduk, Coroner, Kublai Khan TX, Forbidden, Thrown, Benediction, Grave, Unleashed, Evergrey, letlive., Rotting Christ, Frog Leap, Primordial, Septicflesh, Kanonenfieber, Allt, A.A. Williams, Acid King, Gaahls Wyrd, Harakiri For The Sky, Priest, Extreme Torture, Eyehategod, Shining, Carach Angren, Gatecreeper, Bölzer, Psychonaut, Black Tusk, Right this moment is the Day, Frontside, Neckbreakker, Truckfighters, Vianova, Escuela Grind, Disharmonic Orchestra, Winterfylleth, Martyrdöd, Monkey3, Blood Vulture, Djerv, Hostia, Kent Osborne, Return To Mud, Grasp Boot File, Embryonic Post-mortem, and Knife Bride.
Mystic Competition will happen in Gdansk, Poland on the Gdansk Shipyard on June third by means of sixth, 2026.
Tickets can be found now on the Mystic Competition homepage right here
