Mysthicon are a band from Poland that plays a very old school form of black metal with progressive, death and doom metal elements and this is a review of their self released 2025 album "Bieśń" which will be released in September.
Nature orientated soundscapes and keyboards start off the album along with some spoken words a few seconds later which evolve into black metal screams. When the music speeds up a great amount of tremolo picking and blast beats can be heard which also gives the recording more of a raw feeling.
Death metal growls can also be heard at times while elements of doom metal are also added into the slower sections of the songs. The riffs also add in a decent amount of melody along with the clean sections also taking the music into more of a progressive direction and all of the musical instruments also have a very powerful sound to them.
Throughout the album you can also hear a good mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts along with the music also being very heavily influenced by the old school era. Clear singing can also be heard at times as well as some of the tracks also being long and epic in length, some songs also add in a small amount of acoustic guitars and hurdy-gurdy, the album closes with a Lux Occulta cover. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover stories, songs and legends from the Dukla region and its surroundings.
In my opinion Mysthicon are a very great sounding progressive black metal band with elements of doom and death metal and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Shapes" and "The Storyteller". 8 out of 10.
https://mysthicon.bandcamp.com/album/bie
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