Midnight

About

Not to be confused with: - Midnight (Heavy Metal from Seattle, Washington; featured on 1989 Metal Meltdown 4 compilation) - Midnight (band/project of late Crimson Glory vocalist Midnight; active 1998-2007) - Midnite (Hard Rock from Tampa, Florida w/ Jeff Henry) Contact: irongripmgmt@gmail.com Formed by Athenar, while he still was in Boulder, as a solo side-project. Initially he only ever planned to release EPs and splits, which he kept to for the first eight years of the band's existence. Athenar has been known to perform "one-man-band" gigs along with the midnight mistresses. Compilation appearances: - "Berlin Is Burning" on NWN Fest Volume I (Nuclear War Now! Productions, ANTI-GOTH 137 on vinyl/CD/digital, November 2009) - "Strike of Midnight" on The Dead Eat the Living (Ohio Metal Militia, 2009) - "Satanic Royalty" on Hells Headbangers Compilation Volume 5 (Hells Headbangers Records, 2011) - "You Can't Stop Steel," "Endless Slut," "Satanic Royalty" and "Black Rock'n'Roll" on Keep it True XVI DVD (Metal Entertainment, 2014) - "Evil Like a Knife" on Hell's Headbangers Compilation Volume 6 (2013) - "The Final Rape of Night" on Hell's Headbangers Compilation Volume 7 (2014) - "In League With Satan" on Summoning the Hounds of Hell - A Tribute to Venom (Evil Spell Records, vinyl, 2015) - "Try Suicide" on Hells Headbash Part 2 ‎(Hells Headbangers Records, 2015) - "Evil Like a Knife" on Deathgasm (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Death Waltz Recording Company, 2016) - "White Hot Fire" and "You Can't Stop Steel" on Hells Headbash Part 2 DVD (Hells Headbangers Records, 2016) - "Mother of Mercy" (Samhain cover) on We All Want Our Time in Hell: A Tribute to Samhain (Corpse Flower Records, 2018) - "Rising Scum" on Rock Tribune 189 (Rock Tribune Magazine, 2020) - "Evil like a Knife" on Rock Hard Festival Archives II - Best Of 2009-2019 (Rock Hard, 2020) - "Masked and Deadly" on Metal Massacre XV (Metal Blade Records, May 2021) - "Let There Be Witchery" on Le Sampler RockHard 228 (Rock Hard, 2022) - "Dirty Love" on Löve Me Förever: A Tribute to Motörhead (PsychoWaxx, 2022) - "Szex Witchery" on RockHard Mixtape Vol. 1 (Rock Hard, 2022) - "F.O.A.L." on Le Sampler RockHard 250 (Rock Hard, 2024)

Discography

Steel, Rust and Disgust

Full-length · 2025

• 1 Cleveland Metal 2:52 +
• 2 Iron Beast (Kratos cover) 2:14 +
• 3 I'm Insane (Synastryche cover) 2:25 +
• 4 Final Solution (Rocket from the Tombs cover) 3:26 +
• 5 Frenzy (Screamin' Jay Hawkins cover) 2:16 +
• 6 Child Eaters (Rubber City Rebels cover) 4:27 +
• 7 3rd Generation Nation (Dead Boys cover) 2:28 +
• 8 Rock n' Roll Fever (David Allan Coe cover) 2:58 +
• 9 Carrions Keep (False Hope cover) 3:21 +
• 10 Black Leather Rock (Electric Eels cover) 1:31 +
• 11 Steel, Rust and Disgust 3:14 +
• 12 Agitated (Electric Eels cover) 1:55 +

Goat Trap b/w Servant of No One (live)

Single · 2024

• 1 Goat Trap +
• 2 Servant of No One (live) +

Hellish Expectations

Full-length · 2024

• 1 Expect Total Hell 3:29 +
• 2 Gash Scrape 2:18 +
• 3 Masked and Deadly 2:50 +
• 4 Slave to the Blade 1:51 +
• 5 Dungeon Lust 2:13 +
• 6 Nuclear Savior 2:38 +
• 7 Deliver Us to Devil 2:23 +
• 8 Mercyless Slaughtor 2:45 +
• 9 Doom Death Desire 2:16 +
• 10 F.O.A.L. 2:48 +

Maximum Metal Vol. 284

Split · 2024

• 1 DragonForce - Astro Warrior Anthem (edit) 4:59 +
• 2 Ministry - B.D.E. 4:27 +
• 3 Hammer King - Hailed by the Hammer 4:57 +
• 4 Midnight - F.O.A.L. 2:48 +
• 5 Hell Boulevard - Rollercoaster 3:27 +
• 6 Bokassa - The Ending Starts Today 3:26 +

Burning the Midnight Oil

Split · 2023

• 1 Midnight - Beijing Is Burning +
• 2 Midnight - The Bomber (James Gang cover) +
• 3 Dinkumoil - Shining in Cleveland Night +
• 4 Dinkumoil - Emerald (Thin Lizzy cover) +

Haunting the Masonic

Live album · 2023

• 1 Fucking Speed and Darkness 4:49 +
• 2 Rebirth by Blasphemy 2:57 +
• 3 Telepathic Nightmare 3:45 +
• 4 Szex Witchery 3:35 +
• 5 Here Comes Sweet Death 3:30 +
• 6 White Hot Fire 4:04 +
• 7 Lust Filth and Sleaze 3:28 +
• 8 You Can't Stop Steel 3:49 +

Let There Be Witchery

Full-length · 2022

• 1 Telepathic Nightmare 3:31 +
• 2 Frothing Foulness 2:59 +
• 3 In Sinful Secrecy 3:21 +
• 4 Nocturnal Molestation 3:41 +
• 5 More Torment 3:59 +
• 6 Let There Be Sodomy 3:22 +
• 7 Devil Virgin 3:45 +
• 8 Snake Obsession 2:41 +
• 9 Villainy Wretched Villainy 3:26 +
• 10 Szex Witchery 3:59 +

Rehearsal Vomits

Live album · 2021

• 1 Evil like a Knife +
• 2 Prowling Leather +
• 3 Degradation +
• 4 Satanic Royalty +
• 5 Black Rock 'n' Roll +
• 6 White Hot Fire +
• 7 Woman of Flame +
• 8 All Hail Hell +
• 9 Vomit Queens +
• 10 Holocaustic Deafening +
• 11 Lust, Filth and Sleaze +
• 12 Rip This Hell +

Rebirth by Blasphemy

Full-length · 2020

• 1 Fucking Speed and Darkness 3:59 Video +
• 2 Rebirth by Blasphemy 3:07 +
• 3 Escape the Grave 2:47 +
• 4 Devil's Excrement 2:15 +
• 5 Rising Scum 4:01 +
• 6 Warning from the Reaper 4:06 +
• 7 Cursed Possessions 2:24 +
• 8 Raw Attack 3:50 +
• 9 The Sounds of Hell 3:16 +
• 10 You Can Drag Me Through Fire 4:04 +

Midnight

EP · 2019

• 1 Lord in Chains +
• 2 Strike of Midnight +
• 3 Take You to Hell +
• 4 ...On the Wings of Satan +

Rebirth by Blasphemy

Single · 2019

• 1 Rebirth by Blasphemy 3:07 +

Professor Black + Midnight

Collaboration · 2018

• 1 Too P**k to Fuck 2:47 +
• 2 No Class (Motörhead cover) (live) 2:42 +

I Don't Need Society

Single · 2017

• 1 I Don't Need Society (D.R.I. cover) 2:47 +

Rip This Boot

Live album · 2017

• 1 Satanic Royalty +
• 2 Evil Llke a Knife +
• 3 Black Rock 'n' Roll +
• 4 Lust Filth and Sleave +
• 5 Endless Slut +
• 6 Degradation +
• 7 You Can't Stop Steel +
• 8 Who Gives a Fuck +
• 9 Unholy and Rotten +

Shox of Violence

Compilation · 2017

• 1 Death Scream 2:33 +
• 2 Who Gives a Fuck? 2:56 +
• 3 Ready for Destruction 2:25 +
• 4 Groin Gripper 3:14 +
• 5 Sadist Sodomystic Seducer 2:12 +
• 6 In League with Satan (Venom cover) 2:45 +
• 7 Too Loud for the Crowd (Venom cover) 2:41 +
• 8 The Witch (The Sonics cover) 3:01 +
• 9 Breakout (Taipan cover) 3:00 +
• 10 Hells Fire (Mistreater cover) 3:23 +
• 11 T.A.P. (Black Ax cover) 3:17 +
• 12 When I Die (Pagans cover) 2:43 +
• 13 Unholy and Rotten (live) 2:41 +
• 14 ...on the Wings of Satan (live) 3:46 +
• 15 Slick Black Cadillac (Quiet Riot cover) 4:25 +
• 16 Nuclear Bomb (The Spits cover) 1:12 +
• 17 Black Kar (The Spits cover) 1:49 +
• 18 Rat Face (The Spits cover) 1:51 +
• 19 Shitty World (The Spits cover) 1:37 +
• 20 Death Sentence (Crucifixion cover) 2:21 +
• 21 Wicked Women (Scarab cover) 3:16 +
• 22 Eyes of Satan (Pagans cover) 2:08 +
• 23 Watch Your Step (Girlschool cover) 3:13 +
• 24 Vomit Queen (demo) 4:02 +
• 25 Cross Held High (demo) 4:54 +

Sweet Death and Ecstasy

Full-length · 2017

• 1 Crushed by Demons 6:26 +
• 1 Evil Like a Knife 3:35 +
• 2 Penetratal Ecstasy 3:43 +
• 2 Prowling Leather 3:36 +
• 3 Here Comes Sweet Death 3:41 +
• 3 Degradation 2:43 +
• 4 Melting Brain 1:57 +
• 4 Satanic Royalty 3:10 +
• 5 Rabid! 3:25 +
• 5 Black Rock 'n' Roll 2:39 +
• 6 Bitch Mongrel 3:05 +
• 6 White Hot Fire 3:41 +
• 7 Poison Trash 3:17 +
• 7 Woman of Flame 3:56 +
• 8 Before My Time in Hell 6:28 +
• 8 All Hail Hell 3:30 +
• 9 Vomit Queens 4:36 +
• 10 Holocaustic Deafening 1:56 +
• 11 Lust, Filth and Sleaze 3:30 +
• 12 Rip This Hell 3:21 +

Black Mold

Split video · 2016

• 1 Shitfucker - Sex Dungeon +
• 2 Shitfucker - Black Mold +
• 3 Midnight - Evil like a Knife +
• 4 Acid Witch - Partytime +

Shox of Violence

EP · 2016

• 1 Death Scream 2:32 +
• 2 Who Gives a Fuck? 2:50 +
• 3 Ready for Destruction 2:20 +
• 4 Groin Gripper 3:09 +

Hells Headbash: Meat Meets Metal

Split video · 2015

• 1 Nunslaughter - Live +
• 2 Acid Witch - Live +
• 3 Shitfucker - Live +
• 4 Midnight - Live +
• 5 Acid Witch - Party Time 3:51 +
• 6 Midnight - Evil Like a Knife 4:23 +
• 7 Nunslaughter - God 2:46 +
• 8 Shitfucker - Sex Dungeon 5:56 +

Midnight / Shitfucker

Split · 2015

• 1 Midnight - Sadist Sodomystic Seducer 2:16 +
• 2 Shitfucker - Nightmare (pt. 2) 3:48 +

No Mercy for Mayhem Demos

Demo · 2015

• 1 The Mercy Curse +
• 2 Evil like a Knife +
• 3 Prowling Leather +
• 4 No Mercy for Mayhem +
• 5 The Final Rape of Night +
• 6 Degradation +
• 7 Woman of Flame +
• 8 Try Suicide +
• 9 Whiplash Disaster +
• 10 Aggressive Crucifixion +

No Mercy for Mayhem

Full-length · 2014

• 1 The Mercy Curse 0:44 +
• 1 Unholy and Rotten 3:22 +
• 2 Evil like a Knife 3:09 +
• 2 Black Rock 'n' Roll 3:04 +
• 3 Prowling Leather 3:36 +
• 3 Satanic Royalty 3:24 +
• 4 No Mercy for Mayhem 3:22 +
• 4 All Hail Hell 3:57 +
• 5 The Final Rape of Night 3:21 +
• 5 Violence on Violence 2:07 +
• 6 Degradation 2:30 +
• 6 I Am Violator 3:15 +
• 7 Woman of Flame 4:13 +
• 7 Holocaustic Deafening 1:57 +
• 8 Try Suicide 3:56 +
• 8 Endless Slut 2:58 +
• 9 Whiplash Disaster 4:16 +
• 9 ...on the Wings of Satan 3:34 +
• 10 Aggressive Crucifixion 3:34 +
• 11 Destroy Tsunami's Power 3:20 +

Too Loud (for the Crowd)

Single · 2014

• 1 Too Loud (for the Crowd) (Venom cover) 2:42 +

Alive on the Streets of Cleveland

Live album · 2013

• 1 Unholy and Rotten 3:22 +
• 2 Black Rock 'n' Roll 3:04 +
• 3 Satanic Royalty 3:24 +
• 4 All Hail Hell 3:57 +
• 5 Violence on Violence 2:07 +
• 6 I Am Violator 3:15 +
• 7 Holocaustic Deafening 1:57 +
• 8 Endless Slut 2:58 +
• 9 ...on the Wings of Satan 3:34 +

USA Violates Australia 2013

EP · 2013

• 1 Breakout (Taipan cover) +
• 2 Hell's Fire (Mistreater cover) +

Complete and Total Hell

Compilation · 2012

• 1 Funeral Bell (demo) 1:05 +
• 2 All Hail Hell (demo) 3:25 +
• 3 Servant of No One (demo) 3:04 +
• 4 Unholy and Rotten (demo) 3:34 +
• 5 I Am Violator (demo) 3:18 +
• 6 Hot Graves (demo) 2:56 +
• 7 Long Live Death (demo) 3:33 +
• 8 White Hot Fire 3:43 +
• 9 Endless Slut 2:46 +
• 10 Lord in Chains 4:50 +
• 11 Strike of Midnight 5:23 +
• 12 Take You to Hell 3:37 +
• 13 On the Wings of Satan 2:40 +
• 14 Turn Up the Hell 2:44 +
• 15 Black Rock 'n' Roll 2:52 +
• 16 It's a Sacrifice 3:07 +
• 17 Vomit Queens 4:12 +
• 18 Screams of Blasphemy 4:15 +
• 19 Cross Held High 4:58 +
• 20 Lucifer's Sanctuary 3:26 +
• 21 Berlin Is Burning 4:17 +

Satanic Royalty Demos

Demo · 2012

• 1 Satanic Royalty 3:09 +
• 2 You Can't Stop Steel 3:13 +
• 3 Rip This Hell 2:48 +
• 4 Necromania 3:38 +
• 5 Black Damnation 3:30 +
• 6 Lust, Filth & Sleaze 3:08 +
• 7 Violence on Violence 2:08 +
• 8 Savage Dominance 3:23 +
• 9 Holocaustic Deafening 1:34 +
• 10 Shock 'til Blood 3:24 +

Japanese Benefit

Split · 2011

• 1 Toxic Holocaust - A.T.O.M.I.C. 2:18 +
• 2 Midnight - Destroy Tsunami's Power 3:18 +

Satanic Royalty

Full-length · 2011

• 1 Satanic Royalty 3:23 +
• 2 You Can't Stop Steel 3:27 +
• 3 Rip This Hell 2:50 +
• 4 Necromania 3:43 +
• 5 Black Damnation 3:17 +
• 6 Lust, Filth and Sleaze 3:13 +
• 7 Violence on Violence 2:05 +
• 8 Savage Dominance 3:27 +
• 9 Holocaustic Deafening 1:37 +
• 10 Shock 'til Blood 3:21 +
• 11 T.A.P. (Black Ax cover) 3:12 +

Farewell to Metal Slut

Split · 2010

• 1 Midnight - Slick Black Cadillac (Quiet Riot cover) 4:27 +
• 2 Abigail - Teen Age Metal Fuck (live) 3:51 +

Tejano Tour March 6-7 2010

Split · 2010

• 1 Nunslaughter - Cryptic Aeon (live) 2:39 +
• 2 Nunslaughter - Raid the Convent (live) 2:59 +
• 3 Midnight - On the Wings of Satan (live) 3:45 +

Berlin Is Burning

Compilation · 2009

• 1 Turn Up the Hell 2:48 +
• 2 Hot Graves 2:46 +
• 3 Servant of No One 3:06 +
• 4 Unholy and Rotten 3:18 +
• 5 All Hail Hell 3:07 +
• 6 Long Live Death 3:26 +
• 7 Berlin Is Burning 4:11 +
• 8 Strike of Midnight 4:43 +
• 9 Take You to Hell 3:32 +
• 10 On the Wings of Satan 2:22 +
• 11 Lord in Chains 4:58 +

Farewell to Hell

EP · 2008

• 1 Black Rock 'n' Roll 2:52 +
• 2 It's a Sacrifice 3:07 +
• 3 Vomit Queens 4:10 +
• 4 Screams of Blasphemy 4:15 +
• 5 Cross Held High 4:58 +
• 6 Lucifer's Sanctuary 3:19 +

Midnight Violates You Live!

Live album · 2007

• 1 All Hail Hell 3:49 +
• 2 I Am Violator 3:36 +
• 3 Unholy and Rotten 3:39 +
• 4 Turn Up the Hell 3:57 +
• 5 Long Live Death 4:51 +
• 6 Lord in Chains 5:00 +
• 7 I Am Violator 3:54 +
• 8 White Hot Fire 3:14 +
• 9 All Hail Hell 3:35 +
• 10 Vomit Queens 4:39 +
• 11 Unholy and Rotten 4:11 +
• 12 Turn Up the Hell 3:04 +
• 13 Vomit Queens 4:03 +
• 14 White Hot Fire 3:32 +
• 15 All Hail Hell 4:23 +
• 16 Take You to Hell 3:27 +
• 17 ...on the Wings of Satan 3:00 +
• 18 Endless Slut 2:57 +
• 19 Unholy and Rotten 3:49 +

Slay the Spits

EP · 2007

• 1 Nuclear Bomb (The Spits cover) 1:12 +
• 2 Black Kar (The Spits cover) 1:51 +
• 3 Rat Face (The Spits cover) 1:52 +
• 4 Shitty World (The Spits cover) 1:38 +

Complete and Total Fucking Midnight

Compilation · 2005

• 1 Funeral Bell (demo) 1:04 +
• 2 All Hail Hell (demo) 3:27 +
• 3 Servant of No One (demo) 3:06 +
• 4 Unholy and Rotten (demo) 3:36 +
• 5 I Am Violator (demo) 3:19 +
• 6 Hot Graves (demo) 2:58 +
• 7 Long Live Death (demo) 3:35 +
• 8 White Hot Fire 3:43 +
• 9 Endless Slut 2:45 +
• 10 Lord in Chains 4:49 +
• 11 Strike of Midnight 5:22 +
• 12 Take You to Hell 3:36 +
• 13 ...on the Wings of Satan 2:40 +
• 14 Turn Up the Hell 2:44 +
• 15 Death Sentence (Crucifixion cover) 2:22 +

Outbreak of Evil Vol. 2

Split · 2005

• 1 Abigail - Pukin' Alone (Eat My Fuk cover) 1:20 +
• 2 Abigail - Suck My Ass It Smells (GG Allin cover) 0:20 +
• 3 Villains - Dog Burner 4:21 +
• 4 Midnight - Turn Up the Hell 2:43 +
• 5 Force of Darkness - Spit the Cross 2:25 +

White Hot Fire

EP · 2004

• 1 White Hot Fire 3:43 +
• 2 Endless Slut 2:45 +

Midnight

Demo · 2003

• 1 Funeral Bell 1:04 +
• 2 All Hail Hell 3:27 +
• 3 Servant of No One 3:06 +
• 4 Unholy and Rotten 3:36 +
• 5 I Am Violator 3:19 +
• 6 Hot Graves 2:58 +
• 7 Long Live Death 3:35 +