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Midnight announce new covers album ‘Steel, Rust And Disgust’

MIDNIGHT have announced a new album!

Titled Steel, Rust And Disgust, the upcoming album from the Cleveland, Ohio-based blackened speed metal band is the follow-up to last year’s Hellish Expectations, and is scheduled to be released in May this year, via Metal Blade Records. The upcoming album features ten unique cover tracks alongside two new cuts.

Speaking about the upcoming coves album, band leader Athenar shares, “the idea to record an album of all cover jams with a certain theme is nothing quite new. The original title for this album was gonna be Throw Ups as an homage to the DAVID BOWIE’s Pin Ups album, also of covers. Although Throw Ups is only two syllables, and I need six. I guess I could’ve called it Throw Downs Throw Outs Throw Ups, but that would just be fucking stupid.

I just wanted to record some songs by bands who shared the same sights, sounds, and sewage of my region of birth. Some of these tunes you may have heard, some you may have not. So please, do yourself a favor and check out the original versions… if you want to transform into a total fucking slimebag that is!”

Alongside the announcement of the new covers album, MIDNIGHT have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; the original song Cleveland Metal.

Speaking about the new song, Athenar says, “‘Cleveland’ and ‘metal’. Those two words flow together like molten steel. This title was directly taken from a compilation album of the same name released in 1983 on Clubside Records, pre–Auburn Records. The song was written as an erotic love letter to the cursed city whence I was thrusted upon and its fellow inhabitants of subhumans.”

Watch the official music video for Cleveland Metal here: 

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new covers album below:

Track List: 

1. Cleveland Metal
2. Iron Beast (KRATOR cover)
3. I’m Insane (SYNASTRYCHE cover)
4. Final Solution (ROCKET FROM THE TOMBS cover)
5. Frenzy (SCREAMIN’ JAY HAWKINS cover)
6. Child Eaters (RUBBER CITY REBELS cover)
7. 3rd Generation Nation (DEAD BOYS cover)
8. Rock N’ Roll Fever (DAVID ALLAN COE cover)
9. Carrions Keep (FALSE HOPE cover)
10. Black Leather Rock (ELECTRIC EELS cover)
11. Steel, Rust And Disgust
12. Agitated (ELECTRIC EELS cover)

Steel, Rust And Disgust - Midnight

Steel, Rust And Disgust is set for release on May 23rd via Metal Blade Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

For more information on MIDNIGHT like their official page on Facebook.

James Weaver

Editor-in-Chief and Founder of Distorted Sound Magazine; established in 2015. Reporting on riffs since 2012.

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