Midnight

Filthy, belligerent and obnoxious, Midnight make music to start fights to. Since 2003, one-man-
band Athenar has been churning out an ungodly racket, dropping countless demos, splits and EPs
- and in 2022 he returns, delivering a catchy mixture of black metal, speed metal, and dirty punk
rock. "I always want it to be loud and nasty," he asserts. "That kinda thing never gets old with
me. How funny will that look to see me at age 77 - if I reach that point - sitting on the porch
blasting Hellhammer?"
The title is a combination of the song titles "Let There Be Sodomy" and "Szex Witchery",
Athenar wanting to maintain the tradition of using six syllables. Lyrically, the record is
"unfiltered savage animalisticness", and the deeper the listener delves, the dirtier they get, which

is just the way it should be. When it came to tracking the record, Athenar returned to Mercenary
Studios in Cleveland, OH and producer Noah Buchanan, who makes it very easy for him to cut
loose and make noise, choosing to once again record all the instruments himself despite having a
live band that could step in and help out. "It's still just me and my science project gone awry. I
realize I'm musically handicapped, but there's a charm to it."
Mulling over the question as to why anyone should actually give a shit about Midnight, he once
again comes up with a typically Athenar answer: "If I were to give actual good advice, I would
say stay clear of anything to do with Midnight. But I'm not a rational thinker, so as usual, I will
give terrible advice and say punish your earholes and play this album as loud as your stereo
goes, go out to a gig and mingle with others that you don't know, lick their faces and rub upon
each other's sweaty torsos to the hellish, neanderthalish noise of a band called Midnight! You
gotta release your demons somehow! That's why you should give a shit, or two."