10 Bands Motorhead + Venom Fans Need to Know, Chosen by Midnight

Right here at 10 bands followers of Motorhead and Venom have to know, chosen by Midnight’s Athenar.

What You Have to Know About Midnight

From: Cleveland, Ohio

First Album: Satanic Royalty (2011)

New Album: Hellish Expectations

Within the eight years previous to the 2011 debut album, Midnight burned up the underground circuit with their infectious model of Motorhead and Venom worship, topped with a blackened contact.

For greater than 20 years, bandleader Athenar has served because the multi-instrumentalist behind Midnight’s recordings of varied splits, EPs and, now, six full size information. Onstage, he pulls double responsibility as bassist and vocalist, flanked by different hooded bandmates who ship an interesting, high-energy present.

Snotty, Hell-positive blackened velocity metallic, Midnight conjure up all kinds of underworld visuals whereas casting out these untrue to heavy metallic’s previous methods. “Why would I need you to die? So you can be free? Do not need to see you in Hell, not subsequent to me,” Athenar cries out in Hellish Expectations‘ “F.O.A.L.,” a playful reversal of the “fuck off and die” adage, cursing somebody to remain away and carry on dwelling, loser.

Try the music video under.

Midnight, “F.O.A.L.” Music Video

So, with Athenar being a number one purveyor of all issues unholy and rotten, we picked his mind about another like-minded acts who depend Motorhead and Venom amongst their chief influences.

See his picks under.

‘Hellish Expectations‘ is out now on Steel Blade. Observe Midnight on Instagram, Bandcamp and Fb.

10 Bands Motorhead + Venom Followers Have to Know, Chosen by Midnight’s Athenar

ZZ High (Let Him Clarify!)

First, what about like-minded bands that pre-date Venom and Motorhead, however nonetheless had that very same form of intention and really feel?

It goes to indicate with Motorhead overlaying “Beer Drinkers and Hellraisers,” so I considered ZZ High. The riff from “No Class” and “Tush,” it is the identical riff. It is not very far off.

You might have the three piece and the boogie beats. They each have them.

ZZ High, “Tush”

Motorhead, “No Class”

Inepsy

A band that generally will get ignored is Inpesy. They’re from proper across the time that Midnight began as effectively, perhaps even a few years earlier than. After I first heard them, I went right into a pal’s file retailer and he put them on to get my impression.

After I walked within the door, I nearly felt embarrassed as a result of I did not know who it was. “It sounds prefer it’s from 1984. Why do not I do know it?” He instructed me it was Inepsy, a model new band. Additionally they had this Discharge-like crusty punk sound.

Inepsy, “Rock ‘N’ Roll Babylon”

Bütcher

They’re actually fucking good. I used to be unaware of them till a pair years in the past once we performed with them in Germany. I received their album instantly after that.

The singer was intense with out being too growly and aggressive. They arrive from a superb lineage of Belgian velocity metallic like Acid, Ostrogoth and Cyclone.

Bat

We toured with them in 2018 on the west coast. I’ve a channel of water in my yard that goes out to a lake, so I am going to exit and play on the ice like several regular 50-year-old fucking child does.

I all the time textual content Ryan Waste once I’m on the market as a result of they’ve a music known as “Ice.” Once they performed it dwell once we had been touring with him, he would go, “This music is named ‘Iiiiiiiiiiiiice’.”

So I all the time textual content him and take an image that I am on the ice.

Sizzling Graves

We performed with them years in the past after they first began.

It was cool as a result of that was the primary band that I knew of that took a Midnight music title and made it their band identify. I felt like Judas Priest. So many band names are taken from Judas Priest music titles.

Sizzling Graves, “Structural Violence”

Hellripper

I met James years in the past. He instructed me, “I simply took Midnight riffs and made them my very own.” He was a extremely younger dude and it was cool that he received into Midnight earlier than he received into a variety of the stuff that I used to be ripping off.

I met him in Czech Republic at, I feel, the Brutal Assault pageant. I wasn’t consuming, however we had all these free drink tickets and so they had absinthe. I simply saved giving him my drink tickets and he simply saved fucking down absinthe. He received completely fucking obliterated to the purpose the place he did not know the place his associates had been, everyone was gone, I used to be like, “Okay. Nicely, we’ll goodbye, man. We have received to go. I do not know. Sorry, bye.” I felt so unhealthy, however we needed to go.

They’re an awesome dwell band and actually have some nice vitality dwell with the tempos.

Hellripper, “The Nuckelavee” (Reside)

Kids of Expertise

They’re one other good one with a Carnivore reference within the band identify.

Kids of Expertise, “No Man’s Land”

Bonehunter

Bonehunter are a cool band from Finland.

Bonehunter, “Black Magic M16”

Bewitcher

They have this cool [Metallica] Kill ‘Em All guitar sound the place he can play good leads and stuff, not simply completely wanky leads or whole schlop.

Bewitcher, “Satanic Magick Assault”

Bulldozer

The final 12 months or two years in the past they had been simply enjoying stuff off the primary two albums and did it correct. Man, it was so fucking good.

Some time in the past, AC Wild wasn’t enjoying bass and was singing behind a podium. That was cool, however this factor that they did like two years in the past simply crushed. The early stuff was fucking good.

Bulldozer, “Fallen Angel”