Mystification is where Manilla Road take a thrashier route with their music. In 1987, many thrash metal bands were becoming big so it's understandable that you'd hear a stronger sense of thrash metal during that time. Hey, it could have been worse and they could have jumped on the hair metal bandwagon which is what almost every big band was doing at the time. The album takes a lot of inspiration from the legendary writer Edgar Allen Poe. The album went through a different track listing with the same songs on the re-issue in 2000 along with a whole new album cover which looks a lot better than the original one. Mystification is on par with The Deluge and with songs like Up from the Crypt and Valley of Unrest, you can be sure to bang your head when hearing it.
Children of the Night is the song one of the big four wish they wrote. Right away Mark Shelton is showing no messing around with this song by taking it off with some rapid pace riffs and this will make those 7 minutes listening to this song fly by without you even noticing. Of course, with that length you expect the band to take some breaks and not wear them out entirely if they were to play this song live. Roughly 3 minutes in, they introduce some clean guitars but it's not long until you're thrown right back to some heavy thrashing and this second main riff Shelton plays for this song is one hell of a headbanger. Having these two riffs played in the same song shows some interesting movements. Not only that, there are some wailing solos heard halfway through and this puts the song at its very peak. Overall, Children of the Night is one hell of a song from Manilla Road that sure as hell will pump up the live audience for putting those riffs right in their faces.
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