Mystifier

***Between 1989 and 1993, MYSTIFIER released a rapid succession of definitive recordings that established the band as one of the most important to emerge from the Brazilian underground Black and Death Metal scene. After the release of the band’s 1993 masterpiece Goetia, Mystifier disappeared for the next three years. The band resurfaced in 1996 with a thoroughly unpredictable album with the absurdly long title, The World is So Good That Who Made It Doesn’t Live Here. Mystifier’s third album represented a marked departure. Although the traditional Brazilian Black/Death sound was present, the album is far more theatrical and the production substantially cleaner than the band’s earlier work. With The World is So Good…Mystifier embraced a technical approach that departed from the brutal primitivism for which early Brazilian metal is known.