Here is a solid 17 minute,  2 song independent release from Polish black metal act Mystic Rites. I’m not familiar with the band, but they hit me up on Facebook asking for a review, sent me a CD, so here we are.

I have not heard any of the band’s prior out put since 2012, a couple more EPs and a couple of singles, bu based on what I’m hearing on the 2 lengthy songs on Threads, “Threads” and “And So the Silence Died”, there is some potential here.  There’s a murky discordance and occult, experimental pulse not to far removed from Deathspell Omega , Aosoth,  Grey Heaven Fall , Schammasch or latter Behemoth. The last third of the title track, having a particularly atonal, ambient transition that come across as pretty bleak yet atmospheric.

“And So the Silence Died” start with haunting chamber music before unfurling a pretty nasty, dissonant shuffle and angular  blackened death lurch that’s rather impressive. Its injected with some slower, ritualistic almost doomy moments that  are pretty foreboding and along with the pained shrieks and moans and solid production, makes for a pretty solid free download. I hope they can produce a full length album here in the not to distant future as there is something to like here that needs to be built upon and further developed.

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