Top Ten Albums of 2017
#1: Midnight - Sweet Death and Ecstasy.
Midnight plays blackened speed metal that's a coked-up cross between Venom and Motörhead, with an extra side of Satan and a manic, gleefully blasphemous feel that's all their own.
#1: Midnight - Sweet Death and Ecstasy.
Midnight plays blackened speed metal that's a coked-up cross between Venom and Motörhead, with an extra side of Satan and a manic, gleefully blasphemous feel that's all their own.
This album is par-for-the-course for Midnight: rabid vocals and bluesy, blitzkreig solos over a stripped-down, high-speed/low-drag rhythm section, the pace driven hard by relentless rock-style drumming.
Tempo variations are placed with an almost preternatural accuracy to wreck your neck. As always, the whole is enlivened by the pleasantly dirty, rawish production that Midnight is known for. Another year, another reminder that Midnight does not disappoint.
Standout tracks: Bitch Mongrel, Melting Brain, Before My Time in Hell.
