MIDNIGHT

Release Year: 2022
Artist Origin: USA
Style: savage hellish blackened speed metal

another rampant recording from Cleveland demon manifests the primal creative instinct in its purest, most liberated form, where darkness, lust, and satirical irony rise to the surface, and pounding, heavy chaos turns into a resonant feast of sound; traditionally handling all instruments himself, Athenar delivers an infectiously vivid, off-the-chain album where fury and raw drive coexist side by side - guitar riffs are sharpened to a dangerously cutting edge, drums strike with unrelenting aggression, and vocals hiss and blaspheme to the point of pure ecstasy; regardless that these ten tracks follow relatively simple structures, each one vibrates with feral intensity, as if fires of the underworld were bursting through every fragment of music, affirming Midnight’s image as a symbol of modern metal decadence; German black 180g vinyl edition comes with a pro-printed double-sided lyric insert and A1 sized poster