WEDNESDAY
A 20-minute walk from Gdańsk’s exquisite Old Town lies the city’s disused shipyard. Here, huge, rusting cranes offer their own, eerily impressive tribute to a bygone age, towering over abandoned warehouses begging to be used as a postapocalyptic film set. Or a metal festival. Mystic’s second year at this site has its eye on the future too, combining the potency of classic metal with the urgency of its new wave.
With the two main stages unused on the preliminary day, festival-goers can escape the sunlight in the Shrine Stage as strident death metal, replete with skulls on
