Rotting Christ And Others Added To Mystic Competition 2026 Line-Up
Band Photograph: Rotting Christ (?)
From the Greek seaside by Norwegian woods to Georgia swamps and Arizona deserts – metallic is performed all over the place and all over the place it’s glorious. Rotting Christ, Shining, Gatecreeper, and Black Tusk are coming to Mystic Fetival to show it.
Rotting Christ
A legend of the Greek scene. They began out within the 80s with grind chopping to then within the early 90s lay the fundaments behind the unique sound of Greek black metallic. Passage to Arcturo, Thy Mighty Contract and Non Serviam are thought of classics of the style in the present day. Although they conjured it themselves, the parameters of the style quickly proved too slim for Rotting Christ and the Tolis brothers determined to proceed their journey by the darkness following their very own path, unchangingly marrying an environment of gloom and grandeur with the attribute melodic constructions and a deep immersion within the Hellenic tradition.
Shining
Chilly Norwegian black metallic, progressive rock from the instances when it actually was progressive, and even some jazz… Seems like a recipe for a catastrophe, until it’s accomplished by Shining – and so they do it in equally mesmerising and charming method. Jørgen Munkeby, the chief of the band, is an equally expert guitarist as he’s a saxophonist, and an important vocalist at that. He’s additionally most likely the one man on the planet who can boast about having been a member of drastically completely different however equally glorious bands like Jaga Jazzist and Emperor. Shining are simply wrapping up recording their latest album. Through which course will this rollercoaster flip?
Gatecreeper
The desert monster of Arizona, one of many main representatives of the brand new wave of American dying metallic. On their critically acclaimed third document, Darkish Superstition, they mix the wildness of the primary albums of Loss of life and Obituary with the armoured energy of Bolt Thrower and the Swedish melodic constructions, giving all of it their very own, new spin. Gatecreeper declare that they play stadium dying metallic and who is aware of, possibly they would be the ones charging the best way for the reemergence of the style from the underground.
Black Tusk
Carry on the sludge, the Shipyard will maintain! The four-piece hailing from Georgia is bringing to Mystic Competition their signature combination of punk nonchalance, stoner heaviness and swamp filth. From their over two-decades-old debut EP, When Kingdom Falls, to final 12 months’s album The Means Ahead, the band retains religion with their battle-tested components, which, in its live performance iteration, boils all the way down to a easy rule – get your self sweaty, get your self soiled, and get your self deaf.
The pageant line-up consists of 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, Loss of life To All, Six Ft Below, Static-X, Scour, Marduk, Coroner, Kublai Khan TX, Forbidden, Thrown, Benediction, Grave, Unleashed, Evergrey, letlive., Rotting Christ, Primordial, Septicflesh, A.A. Williams, Acid King, Gaahls Wyrd, Harakiri For The Sky, Priest, Extreme Torture, Eyehategod, Shining, Carach Angren, Gatecreeper, Bölzer, Black Tusk, In the present day is the Day, Frontside, Disharmonic Orchestra, Winterfylleth, Martyrdöd, Kanonenfieber, Monkey3, Blood Vulture, Djerv, Hostia, Kent Osborne, Grasp Boot File, Embryonic Post-mortem, and Knife Bride.
Mystic Competition will happen in Gdansk, Poland on the Gdansk Shipyard on June third by sixth, 2026.
Tickets can be found now on the Mystic Competition homepage right here
