MYSTIFIER

Release Year: 2021
Artist Origin: BRA
Style: raw blasphemous occult black metal

Sarcofago, Beherit and Blasphemy were not the only bands in early nineties to worship the most blasphemous ways of extreme metal in the underground - Brazil has sported a handful more bands which were craving for primitive and spontaneous ideals: indeed mysterious debut longplay by historical four-piece stands as a cornerstone of raw black metal not for its orthodoxy, but for how it fractures genre conventions with occult fervor, where ritualistic keyboards bleed into primitive thrash-driven riffing, and cavernous vocals shift from death growls to incantatory chants, creating an unclean atmosphere that feels less composed than summoned, while its muddy production and chaotic song structures are not flaws but essential conduits for the unfiltered spiritual aggression; Wicca does not just echo early aesthetics of the genre, establishing Mystifier as generating their own abyssal dialect from within the infernal underground; recent US import