### Mysteria: Temple of the scorn

#### 25/08/08 || Kampfar

Life is indeed a big fucking mystery, women aren’t, but life is. And Mysteria, sort of very slightly. With “Temple of the scorn, this lot of Polish dudes apparently set out to create something a bit out of the ordinary, and I’m sure, if anyone has bothered to ship an interview their way, which I doubt, they have said something along this line: “We think the metal scene has turned boring and stale, its power and creativity more or less gone by now, so we sniffed some pretentiousness, ate our own cum and set out to save it”.

9 out 10 idiots uttering shit like this has never even heard of Unexpect, or The Mass, or The Wicked, or… fuck it, I hate humanity.

The mystery regarding Mysteria lies in figuring out what the fuck they are trying to be. Trust me, it isn’t wild, complex and hard to describe music these fucknuts are up to, it is only their immense lack of focus making them hard to pin-point and put into a specific genre. First and foremost, Mysteria is a rather bland death ensemble with touches of anemic thrash, thrash they are not able to mend into their death at all. See, when these guys bring in other influences, it sounds as if they just started a new song. This bunch wouldn’t recognize a bridge even if you dropped them on The Golden Gate then, and they aren’t very good at context, either. This is why they chose to finish the album off with two folk cysts, both beyond horrible and more out of place than a display of dildos at a rape center.

“Temple of the scorn” sounds as if recorded in different sessions, more like a compilation of demo’s than an album, which could explain the disgusting lack of focus. Anyway, apart from a couple of nice touches taking place from halfway through, up till and including “Cold generation, this is undiluted and inconsistent shite. In other words, nothing I would recommend my reader to spend time on.

3,5 out of 10.

- Information
- Released: 2008
- Label: Pagan Records
- Website: Mysteria’s MySpace
- Band
- Mariusz Zawadzki: vocals, guitar
- Grzegorz Palys: guitar, vocals
- Marcin Nowak: bass
- Tomasz Grzesik: drums

- Tracklist
- 01. Mulla xul
- 02. Undying
- 03. New nation (we are)
- 04. Chaosphere (prelude to terror)
- 05. Territory (inside my kingdom)
- 06. Respect for evil
- 07. Never before and after
- 08. 32 seconds of rain
- 09. Pestilence of mind
- 10. Cold generation
- 11. Awakening (folkien pt. 3)
- 12. Metamorphosis