On March 4, filthy and belligerent speed metal act Midnight will be unleashing his fifth full-length album, Let There Be Witchery via Metal Blade Records.
For the first taste of new music, Athenar—the one-man army behind the sinful project—offers up the track “Szex Witchery.” The title is a combination of the song titles “Let There Be Sodomy” and “Szex Witchery,” both taken from the upcoming record, which Athenar maintains the tradition of using a title with six syllables.
Since 2003, Athenar has been churning out an ungodly racket, dropping countless demos, splits, and EP,s, and in 2022, he returns, delivering a catchy mixture of black metal, speed metal, and dirty punk rock.
Lyrically, Athenar asserts that 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.”
Let There Be Witchery track list:
1. Telepathic Nightmare
2. Frothing Foulness
3. In Sinful Secrecy
4. Nocturnal Molestation
5. More Torment
6. Let There Be Sodomy
7. Devil Virgin
8. Snake Obsession
9. Villainy Wretched Villainy
10. Szex Witchery
Shortly after record release, Midnight will head out on the road with Mayhem and Watain for the “Sanguine Sodomy of North America” tour. See all dates here.
Preorder Let There Be Witchery here.
Photo Credit: Hannah Verbeuren
