Since picking up Midnight's Satanic Royalty back in 2012, I've only skipped buying a new album from them... 2017's Sweet Death and Ecsasty (which I just wasn't feeling at the time, and I've never gone back to check it out again). Midnight have released three albums since then, and I've loved each of them... so when I saw that Metal Blade had a new Midnight record up for preorder, I didn't hesitate to place an order. When it arrived and I gave it a first listen, I was thinking that maybe I should have skipped this one too.
To be fair, I knew nothing about Midnight's Steel, Rust And Disgust when I bought it. On my first listen I couldn't help but think that the songs didn't really feel like Midnight. I wasn't really excited about what I'd heard and then I looked a little closer at the album and realized that they were all cover songs (well, with the exception of two new original songs). That certainly explained why it didn't fully feel like a Midnight record.
After my initial listen, I thought that I could probably just shelve this one, and not concern myself with listening to it again... but as I was just listening to the record while writing up this post, I found it kind of fun. Ten cover songs here, all from Cleveland bands that helped to influence Athenar from Midnight, and they are all so obscure that I've never even heard of most of them... the closest we come is a Dead Boys cover that I may have listened to a handful of times, but I don't really remember it. So overall, this could be a fun record to reach for from time to time because there is some cool shit here when I'm not being too stubborn to appreciate it.
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