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Mystic Festival's Warm Up Day Stayed High And Dry

Mystic Festival celebrated its 25th anniversary during this year’s edition of the Poland based, summer metal festival. This was my third year in a row attending this under the radar metal fest. Just like the beloved Polish dish of pierogi, each one has been slightly different and even better than the previous year’s.

The festival added some bigger names to this year’s warm up day and even though mother nature was threatening to make it a soggy occasion, it didn’t stop it from being the busiest warm up day I’ve been to during the past three years. Mystic Festival is definitely more equipped to handle a rainy day. There is plenty of seating inside the food court area and there are some large, tented merch areas where you can also keep your battle vests dry.

The first band of the day and Mystic Festival was Poland based thrashers, Hellfuck. Hellfuck is fronted by Azarath’s Marcin Sienkiel and I subconsciously expected them to sound like a thrash version of that band. I was pleasantly mistaken. They have their own unique sound with some homage to 1980’s era thrash. There was a nice size crowd there for them I noticed several Hellfuck shirts speckled throughout their audience. It was nice seeing the hometown crowd supporting one of their own.

Marcin Sienkiel of Hellfuck

Next up was one of the bands I was most looking forward to all of the festival, Fear Factory. I hadn’t seen them since their “Soul of a New Machine” tour in the early 1990’s, so it’s been a minute. This was obviously my first-time seeing Milo Silvestro as the vocalist and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. His vocals had a lot of effects on them, but in my opinion, he has a vocal range very similar to Burton C. Bell. I only got to watch a few songs, but during “Edgecrusher,” I saw an unlucky fan get soaked by their own beer once the chorus kicked in. Pro tip: If you have a full beer, never stand that close to the pit! It’s a good thing that beers are inexpensive at Mystic Festival.

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