{"id":26561,"date":"2025-05-26T05:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T05:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=26561"},"modified":"2025-05-26T06:02:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T06:02:40","slug":"midnight-steel-rust-and-disgust-metal-blade-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=26561","title":{"rendered":"Midnight \u2013 \u2018Steel Rust And Disgust\u2019 (Metal Blade Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anyone who knows the modern metal scene probably already recognises that Cleveland\u2019s Midnight are the closest thing we have today to the classic punk metal blitzkrieg of Motorhead, Venom, Tank and Warfare. That main man Athenar should follow up the band\u2019s incendiary 2024 \u2018Hellish Expectations\u2019 album with an album chock full of covers, and it does not feature a single track by any of those bands, though, had all of us at RPM towers scratching our heads. I mean, maybe we\u2019d got Midnight\u2019s influences all wrong after all. Then, I got to do some (grave) digging\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Originally conceived as \u2018Throw Ups\u2019, in homage to David Bowie\u2019s very own album of covers \u2018Pin Ups\u2019, before then being retitled as \u2018Steel Rust And Disgust\u2019 to fit in with the band\u2019s previously named six syllable back catalogue. This is a twelve-track album that brings together ten covers of songs written by bands who shared the same sights, sounds, and sewage as Athenar\u2019s region of birth so hence why there are no British bands, adding in a couple of new Midnight cuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first of these newbies is \u2018Cleveland Metal\u2019 a track that hammers home not only the record\u2019s purpose but also proves why no one betters Midnight when it comes to writing three-minute blasts of pure punk metal\u2026no one, and that\u2019s a fucking fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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