Midnight

About

Midnight is an American black/speed metal project from Cleveland, Ohio, founded in 2003 by Jamie Walters under the stage name Athenar. The sound draws heavily on first-wave black metal, Motörhead-style punk-metal and raw speed metal - a blend the underground has tagged "black n' roll". Walters writes, records and plays all instruments alone in the studio, while live shows feature a rotating cast of masked musicians. Signed to Metal Blade Records since 2019, the band has released seven studio albums, most recently Hellish Expectations (2024) and the Ohio-covers collection Steel, Rust and Disgust (2025).

37.8K

Spotify monthly listeners

2.4M

Spotify streams - top track 'You Can't Stop Steel'

7

Studio albums released (2011-2025)

20+

Years active as a touring/recording act

What's new

2025-05
Midnight released Steel, Rust and Disgust on May 23, 2025 via Metal Blade Records, a 12-track album featuring ten covers of Ohio-based acts alongside two original songs.
2025-05
Midnight played a string of European festival dates in May-July 2025, including Mystic Festival in Gdańsk, Primavera Sound in Barcelona, and Metal Fields Festival in Wiesen, Austria.
2025-04
Midnight announced a North American 2025 tour supporting Dark Angel, Sacred Reich and Vio-Lence on selected dates.
2024-03
Midnight released their sixth full-length album Hellish Expectations on March 8, 2024 via Metal Blade Records.
2026-03
Midnight played a show on March 13, 2026 at the Agora Theater in Cleveland alongside Acid Bath.