What did He do to deserve such hateful feelings. Was it the mantis swarm or the creation of the cockroach or the flooding of the earth? Or perhaps casting the low life form called human from a warm and enjoying paradise they didn’t deserve anyway? Surely, this angry metal band would understand that he wasn’t that bad at all. He just didn’t have the time to look over every tiny little discomfort they suffered. Since all of His creations began to think by themselves, he had a lot of boring paperwork to do to keep things running in the right order. Why wouldn’t they understand that? Annoyed He sat down on a woolly thundercloud and created a nice cool glass of beer for Himself. To Hell with them, He deserved a nice and long vacation…

Originally playing very melodic black metal, the German band Mystic Circle has changed its music style severely. Currently, the band plays death metal with some blackish elements. Mainly the vocals add the black metal feeling. With its change of genre, Mystic Circle became quite more interesting then it was before. The current band line-up is Graf von Beelzebub (vocal and bass), Ezpharess (Guitars) and Necrodemon (Drums).

“The Bloody Path of God” is already the seventh album by Mystic Circle. Heaving reached this holy amount of productions the band seems to add even more fuel to the war against Christianity. The album is full of fast death metal riffs, sometimes exchanged by black and even thrash metal parts. The vocals are both deathlike grunts and blackish screams.
Atmospheric keyboard parts in-between and during the songs add a mystic element to the music. Several songs have a catchy part in the vein of for example “Lucifer over London” by Rotting Christ (from their album “Khronos”). The new Mystic Circle album is nice enough, mainly when looking at their past. Still, the music overall isn’t very interesting, quite repetitive, too overdone satanic to be taken serious and sometimes simply boring.

The album ends with the Celtic Frost cover “Circle of the Tyrants”, already done before by Obituary and Opeth, amongst others. Not too original, as seems to fit well with Mystic Circle.