Midnight
- DAY: Warm Up Day
- STAGE: The Shrine Stage
- COUNTRY: USA
In one of their iconic songs they proclaim that you can’t stop steel and live they spit hellfire from the stage, performing their foul black/speed metal. We bet you know these guys well, they are our recurring guest. Midnight at Mystic Festival is a foolproof source of pure energy.
History:
Midnight is, by and large, a one-man show with Athenar fully at its helm. Although the American musician has an amazing live band, he records and composes the majority of the project’s material entirely on his own. This method hasn’t failed him yet. After releasing a number of EPs, split and live albums, Midnight debuted in 2011 with Satanic Royalty, perhaps the band’s most quintessential album. With the record, Athenar whetted the long-lasting appetite for black/speed metal and he hasn’t really slowed down since. Midnight has stayed within the stylistic parameters set by their first record, keeping faith. This hellish rock’n’roll has expanded across six subsequent full-length records, the latest of which, Hellish Expectations, was released last year.
Discography:
Full albums:
Satanic Royalty, 2011
No Mercy for Mayhem, 2014
Sweet Death and Ecstasy, 2017
Rebirth by Blasphemy, 2020
Let There Be Witchery, 2022
Hellish Expectations, 2024
EPs:
White Hot Fire, 2004
Slay the Spits, 2007
Farewell to Hell, 2008
USA Violates Australia 2013, 2013
Shox of Violence, 2016
Demos:
Midnight, 2003
Satanic Royalty Demos, 2012
No Mercy for Mayhem Demos, 2015
Singles:
I Don’t Need Society, 2017
Goat Trap b/w Servant of No One (live), 2024
Splits:
Outbreak of Evil Vol. 2, 2005 (z Abigail, Force of Darkness i Villains)
Tejano Tour March 6-7 2010, 2010 (z Nunslaughter)
Farewell to Metal Slut, 2010 (z Abigail)
Japanese Benefit, 2011 (z Toxic Holocaust)
Midnight / Shitfucker, 2015 (z Shitfucker)
Burning the Midnight Oil, 2023 (z Dinkumoil)
Maximum Metal Vol. 284, 2024 (z Dragonforce, Ministry, Hammer King, Hell Boulevard i Bokassa)
Live albums:
Midnight Violates You Live!, 2007
Alive on the Streets of Cleveland, 2013
Rip This Boot, 2017
Rehearsal Vomits, 2021
Haunting the Masonic, 2023
Compilations:
Complete and Total Fucking Midnight, 2005
Berlin Is Burning, 2009
Complete and Total Hell, 2012
Shox of Violence, 2017
